Henry Curtis Ahl Jr - Artist Info

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    Biography Submitted by Nancy Moure (December 2022)

    Ahl, Henry Curtis (1905-1996) (Massachusetts)

    “Artist Henry Curtis Ahl captured the outdoors in paintings… a second-generation artist who painted sand dunes ‘like a poet,’ died Sept. 5 in Optima Health Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N. H…. Mr. Ahl was born in Springfield. He spent the greater part of his life in Newbury, where he lived and worked with his father, painter Henry Hammond Ahl, and his mother painter-poet Eleanor (Curtis) Ahl.

    The family lived in a 17th century farmhouse near the Parker River, and young Henry devoted much of his time to capturing the local marshes and woodlands on canvas. He graduated from Governor Dummer Academy, which was just dow...

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