Born in New York City, Franklin Watkins, whose nickname was "Watty," was known for a painting style of "dramatic realism", which emerged in the mid 1920s and was "characterized by surging diagonals,... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Franklin Watkins, whose nickname was "Watty," was known for a painting style of "dramatic realism", which emerged in the mid 1920s and was "characterized by surging diagonals, expressionistic distortions and despite a brushy facture, insistent wiry outlines." (Baigell, 369).... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Franklin Watkins, whose nickname was "Watty," was known for a painting style of "dramatic realism", which emerged in the mid 1920s and was "characterized by surging diagonals, expressionistic distortions and despite a brushy facture, insistent wiry outlines." (Baigell, 369). He spent his boyhood in Philadelphia and took his art training at the Pennsylvania Academy from 1913 to 1918. However, his studies were interrupted due to financial difficulties and World War I in... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Franklin Watkins, whose nickname was "Watty," was known for a painting style of "dramatic realism", which emerged in the mid 1920s and was "characterized by surging diagonals, expressionistic distortions and despite a brushy facture, insistent wiry outlines." (Baigell, 369). He spent his boyhood in Philadelphia and took his art training at the Pennsylvania Academy from 1913 to 1918. However, his studies were interrupted due to financial difficulties and World War I in which he enlisted in the Navy with his life-long friend, Arthur B Carles. Watkins had "service as a civilian wartime ship camouflage* artist for the U.S. Shipping Board in Philadelphia." (Behrens). He then spent five years as a commercial artist and in... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Franklin Watkins, whose nickname was "Watty," was known for a painting style of "dramatic realism", which emerged in the mid 1920s and was "characterized by surging diagonals, expressionistic distortions and despite a brushy facture, insistent wiry outlines." (Baigell, 369). He spent his boyhood in Philadelphia and took his art training at the Pennsylvania Academy from 1913 to 1918. However, his studies were interrupted due to financial difficulties and World War I in which he enlisted in the Navy with his life-long friend, Arthur B Carles. Watkins had "service as a civilian wartime ship camouflage* artist for the U.S. Shipping Board in Philadelphia." (Behrens). He then spent five years as a commercial artist and in 1923, traveled to Europe on a Cresson Scholarship* and spent time in France, Spain, and Italy. His study of the Old Masters* much inf... Read full biography
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About Franklin Watkins: Books
Books & Publications (80)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism and Its Response in Pennsylvania Painting, 1900-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Fahlman, Betsy (Essay)
71 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
150 Years of Philadelphia Still Life Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Schwarz, Robert Devlin
130 pages (color)
Still Life The Object in American Art, 1915-1995 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Sims, Lowery/Sabine Rewald
175 pages (color)
One Hundred Paintings by American & European Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Schwarz-Philadelphia
60 pages (color)
Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference
1993
Henkes, Robert
260 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art/American Vision Paintings from a Century of Collecting (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Schall, Ellen (others)
164 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Art and Popular Religion in Evangelical America, 1915-1940
1989
Gambone, Robert L
286 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Paintings from the first half of the 20th century (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kilgore, Karen
80 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
Advancing American Art Politics and Aesthetics/State Dept Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Ausfeld, M L/V M Mecklenburg
108 pages (color)
The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Sims, Lowery Stokes
167 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy Galleries
1981
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
163 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
Complete Guide to Portrait Painting
1977
Finck, Furman J
206 pages (color)
Collection of American Art Randolph-Macon Women's College
1977
Williams, Mary Frances
211 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Marcus, George H. (Editor)
166 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975 (Exhibition catalog)
1975
National Academy of Design
262 pages
The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s
1974
Baigell, Mathew
214 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
Important American Art 1903-1972 (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Kennedy Galleries
48 pages (color)
Catalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum
1972
Tomko, George
237 pages (color)
The Thirties Decade American Artists and Their European Contemporaries (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Porter, Allen/Wm McGonagle
80 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
Three American Romantic Painters Burchfield, Stettheimer, Watkins
1969
Museum of Modern Art
132 pages
American Art of the 20's and 30's (Three Catalogues Combined) (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Museum of Modern Art Editors
220 pages
Franklin C Watkins Portrait of a Painter (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Wolf, Ben
201 pages (color)
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Baur, John I H
91 pages (color)
A Short History of Painting in America
1963
Richardson, Edgar P
347 pages (color)
American Muse, The
1961
Dorra, Henri
163 pages (color)
American Art of Our Century
1961
Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur
309 pages (color)
Printmaking with Monotype
1960
Rasmusen, Henry
184 pages
The Story of Modern Art
1958
Cheney, Sheldon
723 pages (color)
New Art in America
1957
Baur, John I H
279 pages
Three Hundred Years of American Painting
1957
Eliot, Alexander
318 pages (color)
Portraiture: The 19th and 20th Centuries (Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1957
Trovato, Joseph, (Foreward); William C. Murray (Introduction)
36 pages
Arizona State College Collection American Art
1956
Arizona State College
108 pages
American Painting Today
1956
Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed)
127 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
The Arizona State College Collection of American Art
1954
Arizona State University
110 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art
1951
Baur, John I H
170 pages
100 American Painters of the 20th Century
1950
Metropolitan Museum
132 pages (color)
Franklin C Watkins (Exhibition catalog)
1950
Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff
48 pages (color)
De Gustibus A Century of Taste and Criticism (Exhibition catalog)
1949
Swenson, Eleanor
60 pages
Milestones of American Painting in Our Century
1949
Wight, Frederick
135 pages (color)
Painting in the U S A
1946
Gruskin, Alan D
223 pages (color)
Romantic Painting in America (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Soby, James Thrall/D C Miller
144 pages
20th Century Portraits (Exhibition catalog)
1942
Wheeler, Monroe
148 pages (color)
Painters and Sculptors of Modern America
1942
Wheeler, Monroe (intro)
152 pages (color)
The American Artist and His Times
1941
Saint-Gaudens, Homer
332 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Half a Century of American Art The Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Art Institute of Chicago
110 pages
Modern Art in America
1939
Cheney, Martha Candler
190 pages
Art in Our Time Exhibition, Tenth Anniversary MoMA (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Museum of Modern Art
320 pages
American Painting Today
1939
Watson, Forbes (essay)
179 pages (color)
Second National Exhibition of American Art Summer 1937 (Exhibition catalog)
1937
Breckinridge, Mrs. H. (essay)
32 pages
First National Exhibition of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1936
Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay)
32 pages
Exhibition of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1935
De Young Memorial Museum
120 pages
Art in America In Modern Times (1865-1934)
1934
Cahill, Holger/Alfred H Barr
110 pages
A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)