Located 10 miles off the mid-Maine coast, Monhegan Island has been drawing artists from around the world for more than 150 years. Giants in the US art world have been inspired by island, including George Bellows, C. K. Chatterton, Randall Davey, Robert Henri, Rockwell Kent, Edward Willis Redfield, Frederick Judd Waugh, and three generations of the Wyeth family: N.C., Andrew, and Jamie, write Diane Bair and Pamela Wright in the Boston Globe.

“All the major American artists were here at one time,” said Ed Deci, director of the Monhegan Museum. “You can actually study American art by studying Monhegan art.”