Editing Art colony (section)

===Southern United States===
==== Florida ====
In [[Delray Beach, Florida]], a seasonal [[Delray Beach, Florida#Early years|Artists and Writers Colony]] existed during the winter months from the mid-1920s until the early 1950s. The Delray Beach enclave was noted for attracting many famous [[cartoonist]]s of the era.<ref>{{cite book|last=Credle-Rosenthal|first=McCall|url=http://www.arcadiapublishing.com|title=Images of America: Delray Beach|date=2003|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-1570-0|location=Charleston, South Carolina|pages=43–60|access-date=2015-01-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author=Sandy Simon|title=Remembering: A History of Florida's South Palm Beach County 1894-1998|publisher=The Cedars Group|year=1999|isbn=0-9669625-0-8}}</ref>

==== Maryland ====
In Nottingham, the Mid-Atlantic Plein Aire Company, most notable for the involvement of artist William David Simmons, remains active. Now known as the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association (MAPAPA), its mission remains the same: to educate and expose local artists and the general public with classical painting traditions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association - Home|url=https://www.mapapa.shuttlepod.org/|website=Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association|access-date=May 10, 2020|archive-date=August 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807150958/http://mapapa.shuttlepod.org/|url-status=dead}}</ref>