AFA Autumn 2018

Autumn 116 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com Island, was organized by Laffan, a writer and passenger agent for the Long Island Railroad. The following year, they sailed up the Hudson to Lake Champlain, on the John C. Earle , and in 1880, they took the tugboat P. B. Casket to northern Long Island. The fourth and final summer excursion was in 1881, when club members traveled to Port Jefferson, a small harbor village on Long Island’s north shore. In February of the following year, a few works from this last trip were included in the group’s only exhibition, at the St. Botolph Club in Boston, which was organized by Tiler Frank Millet. These four lively trips were both sponsored by and reported in Scribner’s Monthly and the Century magazine. The accounts intrigued readers, some of whom began to explore the areas traveled by Tile Club members. Several art colonies and plein-air organizations were established as a result—including William Merritt Chase’s Shinnecock Summer School on Long Island.