George J. Stengel was an American impressionist landscape painter who was a founding member of the Yonkers School of Design and Yonkers Art Association. He is best known today for his impressionist scenes of Yonkers and New Hope, which often depict tranquil images of canals and rivers.

Stengel was born in Newark, New Jersey, on September 26, 1866. When he was three years old, he moved with his family to Yonkers, New York. Stengel's elementary school teachers first recognized and encouraged his talent for drawing and painting. At age fourteen he left school and began working for the Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Company in Yonkers.

While working at Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Company, Stengel began takin...