About Will Foote

  • Biography

    Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Will Howe Foote was an Impressionist* painter whose style was much influenced by the atmospherics of Tonalism* and then Impressionism of the Old Lyme, Connecticut painters with whom he associated. He was one of that Colony's earliest artists, first arriving to paint in the summer of 1901, and, dying in 1965, he was the last surviving member of the original Colony members. However, much of his painting subject matter came from other locations, as he was not very fond of the dominance of the color green in the Old Lyme environs.

    He was the nephew of artist William Henry Howe, and in 1901 accompanied this uncle to Old Lyme whose beauties had been touted to the young Foote by Clark Vo...

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