A recorder in his paintings of the coastal culture of New England, George Savary Wasson was a boat owner for most of his life and spent much along along the coasts of Maine, Massachusetts and New... Read full biography
A recorder in his paintings of the coastal culture of New England, George Savary Wasson was a boat owner for most of his life and spent much along along the coasts of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Monhegan Island was a popular destination for him. Many of his paintings are of vessels that... Read full biography
A recorder in his paintings of the coastal culture of New England, George Savary Wasson was a boat owner for most of his life and spent much along along the coasts of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Monhegan Island was a popular destination for him. Many of his paintings are of vessels that were rapidly being replaced by one more powerful. His marine interests were stimulated by his father, David Atwood Wasson, who was a Transcendentalist minister who traveled to Labrador with the... Read full biography
A recorder in his paintings of the coastal culture of New England, George Savary Wasson was a boat owner for most of his life and spent much along along the coasts of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Monhegan Island was a popular destination for him. Many of his paintings are of vessels that were rapidly being replaced by one more powerful. His marine interests were stimulated by his father, David Atwood Wasson, who was a Transcendentalist minister who traveled to Labrador with the painter, William Bradford in 1864. George Wasson lived at Kittery Point, Maine, across from Portsmouth. He studied art at the Royal Academy in Wurttemberg, Germany, and exhibition venues included the Boston Art Club and the Pennsylvania Academy. Sources... Read full biography
A recorder in his paintings of the coastal culture of New England, George Savary Wasson was a boat owner for most of his life and spent much along along the coasts of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Monhegan Island was a popular destination for him. Many of his paintings are of vessels that were rapidly being replaced by one more powerful. His marine interests were stimulated by his father, David Atwood Wasson, who was a Transcendentalist minister who traveled to Labrador with the painter, William Bradford in 1864. George Wasson lived at Kittery Point, Maine, across from Portsmouth. He studied art at the Royal Academy in Wurttemberg, Germany, and exhibition venues included the Boston Art Club and the Pennsylvania Academy. Sources include:. Judith A. Curtis, "Harry A. Vincent and His Contemporaries,"American... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (9)
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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
Monhegan: The Artists' Island
1995
Curtis, Jane and Will, Frank Lieberman, Carl Little (Foreward)
192 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
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
The Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum
1968
Brewington, M V and Dorothy
530 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index