Born in 1904 in Waterboro Maine, died 1980 in Biddeford, Maine.

R.L. Deering was one of America's foremost sea and landscape artists who captured the charm of New England's many moods. At the time of his death Deering was a resident of Ocean Ave. in Kennebunkport, Maine.

He attended the Portland Museum and School of Fine Arts, and also studied at the Anson Cross School of Painting in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, the Wayman Adams School in Elizabethtown, New York, the George Elmer Brown School in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Aldro Hibbard School in Rockport, Maine.

Deering's Art Memberships include the Salmagundi Club of New York(emeritus), the Rockport, Massachusetts Art Association, the American Artist's Prof...