This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. WALTER MASON ODDIE, A.N.A. (1807/08 – November 15,... Read full biography
This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. WALTER MASON ODDIE, A.N.A. (1807/08 – November 15, 1865). Landscape painter and merchant. A prominent Brooklyn, Long Island, New York painter, he is... Read full biography
This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. WALTER MASON ODDIE, A.N.A. (1807/08 – November 15, 1865). Landscape painter and merchant. A prominent Brooklyn, Long Island, New York painter, he is best remembered as one of the first teachers of the respected American genre painter, Edward Lamson Henry (1841 – 1919). His place of birth is variously reported as Maryland or Washington, DC, or... Read full biography
This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. WALTER MASON ODDIE, A.N.A. (1807/08 – November 15, 1865). Landscape painter and merchant. A prominent Brooklyn, Long Island, New York painter, he is best remembered as one of the first teachers of the respected American genre painter, Edward Lamson Henry (1841 – 1919). His place of birth is variously reported as Maryland or Washington, DC, or possibly New Orleans, Louisiana, where his father lived before moving permanently to New York. Walter Mason Oddie was the son of Cornelia Wattles (1784 – 1821) and John Ward Oddie (1772 – 1865). John Oddie was a merchant and native of Great Britain and... Read full biography
This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. WALTER MASON ODDIE, A.N.A. (1807/08 – November 15, 1865). Landscape painter and merchant. A prominent Brooklyn, Long Island, New York painter, he is best remembered as one of the first teachers of the respected American genre painter, Edward Lamson Henry (1841 – 1919). His place of birth is variously reported as Maryland or Washington, DC, or possibly New Orleans, Louisiana, where his father lived before moving permanently to New York. Walter Mason Oddie was the son of Cornelia Wattles (1784 – 1821) and John Ward Oddie (1772 – 1865). John Oddie was a merchant and native of Great Britain and arrived in the United States around 1800, while Cornelia Wattles was the daughter of Major Mason Wattles (17... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (19)
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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
All That Is Glorious Around Us Hudson River School/A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Driscoll, John Paul
144 pages (color)
The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography
1991
Sullivan, Mark W
225 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
The Course of Empire: The Erie Canal and the New York Landscape, 1825-1875 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Anderson, Patricia
90 pages (color)
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
Robert P Coggins Collection of American Art/Selections from (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Chambers, Bruce W
93 pages (color)
The Beckoning Land A Selection of Nineteenth Century Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Vigtel, Gudmund/D Hoopes
94 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)