Enjoy this serene oil painting with wave-like brushstrokes from the Greater Light Collection. On the back in the upper right corner is, “Bathing Beach / Nantucket 1929” with signature, “Katherine D. Pagon”.

Greater Light was the summer home of Gertrude and Hanna Monaghan, two independent, educated, unmarried Quaker sisters from Philadelphia. Gertrude (1887–1962), a professional artist, and Hanna (1889–1972), an actress and author.

Their personal aesthetic blended art and whimsy with an appreciation of the handcrafted—whether woven, carved, forged, or painted—creating a strongly expressive environment suited to their tastes.

They chose to devote their lives to art, as an expression of their faith. They were Quakers, but of a decidedly different mold from the earlier Quaker population of Nantucket. Rather than rejecting art, they embraced it.

Hanna Monaghan, the surviving sister, bequeathed Greater Light and its contents to the NHA in 1972. It now operates each summer as a Historic Site for visitors to enjoy and for creative programming celebrating arts and more to be held.

Painting by Katharine Dunn Pagon, 1929. Bequest of Hanna D. Monaghan, 1998.1021.1
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Complete your daffodil 🌼 wardrobe for Daffy Weekend with a handwoven daffodil cuff bracelet at our workshop with @nantucketbracelets on Friday, April 25 🗓️

No piece of jewelry better represents Nantucket than the Nantucket Basket Bracelet!

Students will hand-weave a bracelet in traditional Nantucket Lightship-style basket weaving with reed and cane and complete with your daffodil inspired end cap or hydrangea!

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