1.   An Englishman wanted to buy it to turn it into an art colony, but several house owners refused to sell, even though they lived in Hvar.

2.   A walled town that harbored many Cathars during the crusades, Cordes is today an art colony.

3.   Improbable as it sounds today, the top-scale suburb of Greenwich, Conn., once harbored a bohemian art colony, though mildly bohemian to be sure.

4.   Larry, a former bond trader turned pitchman for a health club and later for an Italian art colony, owns up to being unhappily married.

5.   The Merrill house would continue to be an art colony of one.

6.   This summer, Provincetown marks its centennial year as an art colony.

7.   When the South Bronx wanted to assert itself as an arts colony, it adopted SoBro.

8.   Year-round classes in plein-air painting further established the reputation of New Hope as a leading art colony.

9.   Old art colony fading away from New Orleans.

10.   She has a spat with her best friend, Jane, a painter who seeks solace at a Beats-like arts colony.