Cream Hill, Cornwall

A group of artists gathered around Cream Hill near Scoville Road during the summers beginning in 1893, when New York painter Ben Foster set up a studio in a former cheese factory there. Ben Foster was a landscape painter whose work won awards in major shows in the United States and Europe, and he was featured in a retrospective exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D. C. in 1915. He bought a house in Cornwall Hollow in 1900. The group of artists in residence in the neighborhood included Lydia Brewster Hubbard, who painted the gardens behind her house, and a group of painters and musicians who shared picnics and concerts and wrote a weekly newspaper, The Cream Hill Bob-O-Link. James Moser, a Washington-based artist well known for his depictions of African Americans in the South, was also resident for many summers between 1883 and 1913.

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