“JOHN WILLIAM HUNT, 1946”: This portrait by John Folinsbee is part of “Janet Marsh Hunt’s Creative Family Tree,” on view at the New Hope Colony Foundation for the Arts in New Hope, Pa., March 8 through April 13.

Janet Marsh Hunt, a painter and gifted printmaker, was a beloved gallerist and friend to artists for decades before her passing in 2023. As the managing partner at the Coryell Gallery in Lambertville, she mentored hundreds of artists. She was also descended from generations of prominent poets, painters, printmakers, and influential teachers at celebrated art schools.

The New Hope Colony Foundation for the Arts opens the exhibition “Janet Marsh Hunt’s Creative Family Tree,” on Saturday, March 8, from 1to 4 p.m., at 2594 River Road, New Hope, Pa. The exhibition can be seen on Saturdays and Sundays, from 1 to 4 p.m., through April 13.

The exhibit Follows these artists’ journeys from Paris to Lambertville, Haiti to Vermont, and beyond. They include Frederic Dorr Steele (b.1873), an illustrator acclaimed for his work depicting Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories; Lambertville architect and painter William Hunt (b. 1918), who built numerous buildings in Bucks and Hunterdon counties, including the Solebury School, and was a major benefactor of the Hunterdon Medical Center; and Reginald Marsh (b. 1898), an Urban Realist painter and muralist who was renowned for his evocative compositions of street life from Depression Era New York through the 1940s.

Marsh is followed through New York City’s burlesque shows, along the Bowery, to the Coney Island sideshows and the brutal dance marathons of the Depression.

The exhibit also features an artist who fled to South Carolina from San Domingo (i.e., Haiti) at the time of the slave insurrection on that island in the 18th century.

The exhibit also follows the artists’ work at the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the New York Public Library.

Their friends included luminaries and legends such as Emerson, Oliver Wendall Holmes, Henry Luce, and band leader Paul Whiteman.

The mission of The New Hope Colony Foundation for the Arts is to acquire and reactivate the historic properties surrounding the Phillips’ Mill Historic District, and to develop the rich cultural traditions of the New Hope Colony. For more information, visit newhopecolony.org.