Discipline: Literature

Hortense Powdermaker

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1960, 1961, 1963

Studios

Mansfield

Hortense Powdermaker worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

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