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Offering an escape from urban life in summer, the Massachusetts coastal communities of Gloucester and Rockport bloomed into lively artists’ colonies in the early 20th century. Hibbard played an integral role in this development, opening the Rockport Summer School of Painting soon after his arrival in town, and later helping co-found the Rockport Art Association (RAA) in 1921. Around the same time, his colleague Mulhaupt was crafting compelling views of the wharves and fishermen at Gloucester, and inspired Emile Gruppe’s own venture to the region, where he began leading classes on Rocky Neck …