Though the coastal village of Ogunquit, Maine, has attracted important marine and landscape painters throughout the 1880's and included the summer school of Charles H. Woodbury, it was the arrival of the flamboyant painter and critic Hamilton Easter Field (1873 - 1922) in 1902 that put the town on the map as a Modernist summer haven. With Field came sculptor Robert Laurent, and in the decades that followed boasted hundreds of artists including Walt Kuhn, Georgia O'Keeffe, Leon Kroll, and Wood Gaylor. Today, year-rounders in the vicinity include John Laurent and Beverly Hallam. The Hamilton Easter Field collection of works by contemporary friends was transferred from the Barn Gallery to the Portland Museum of Art.