Biography courtesy of Who Was Who in American Art, the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.

Birth place:  Portsmouth, NH

Addresses: Boston (before 1920); Old Chatham, NYC, NY (1920-27); Boston (1928-29)

Profession: Painter, craftsperson, writer, lecturer, teacher

Studied: self-taught.

Exhibited: Copley Soc., 1902; PAFA, 1903, 1907-19, 1923-26; Doll & Richards Gal., Boston, 1904; BMFA, 1911, 1974; Guild of Boston Artists, 1914; Boston AC, 1904, 1908, 1916; Corcoran Gal., 1910, 1914, 1916, 1923; Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915; S. Indp. A.,1917; CI; AIC; NAD; Milch Gal., 1920s; Addison Gal., 1946; Vose Gal. Boston, 1920, 1985, 1988

Member: Boston GA; Boston SWCP.

Work: Union Club, Boston; St. Botolph Club, Boston; Colby College Art Mus.; Addison Gal. Arts, Andover, MA

Comments: Best known as a painter of Boston street scenes and its waterfront, painted en plein air. After 1920, he also produced NYC scenes in his Washington Square studio. A failed marriage probably caused his return to Boston, a bohemian lifestyle, and drinking. Although he never studied in Paris, as did most other American Impressionists, he captured perhaps better than anyone the feeling of Boston with vibrant strokes in oils and pastels. When he died, his friends found him in his little room (apparently smelling of alcohol) with his bags packed and a ticket to France in his pocket.

Sources: WW27; PHF files; Falk, Exh. Record Series.