On This Day In Alabama History: Alabama Art League Founded

By Graydon Rust Alabama 200

April 2, 1930

Artist John Kelly Fitzpatrick and a Montgomery-based group known as “The Morning View Painters” founded the Alabama Art League. A native of Wetumpka, Fitzpatrick was a painter and educator who presented the life of rural central Alabama in brilliant color. His founding of the Alabama Art League led to the establishment of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, where he helped to establish the museum’s permanent collection and served as the first director of the Montgomery Museum of Art School. Fitzpatrick also worked for the Public Works of Art Program during the Great Depression and cofounded the Dixie Art Colony at Lake Jordan. His work can be seen at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and the Kelly Fitzpatrick Memorial Gallery in Wetumpka.

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