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1928 Boston, Massachusetts - 2015 Albuquerque, New Mexico. Known for: Coastal landscape, marine and figure painting, illustration.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Laurence Sisson became a landscape painter and illustrator. He studied at Yale Summer School and was artist-in-residence at Publick House in Sturbridge, Massachusetts,... Read full biography
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Laurence Sisson became a landscape painter and illustrator. He studied at Yale Summer School and was artist-in-residence at Publick House in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and in 1955 became Director of the Portland, Maine School of Fine and Applied Art. He is known for... Read full biography
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Laurence Sisson became a landscape painter and illustrator. He studied at Yale Summer School and was artist-in-residence at Publick House in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and in 1955 became Director of the Portland, Maine School of Fine and Applied Art. He is known for his paintings of the Maine coast and landscapes of the southwest. His style ranges from plein air watercolors to large oil landscapes with abstract and surrealist elements. Sisson has spent the last... Read full biography
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Laurence Sisson became a landscape painter and illustrator. He studied at Yale Summer School and was artist-in-residence at Publick House in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and in 1955 became Director of the Portland, Maine School of Fine and Applied Art. He is known for his paintings of the Maine coast and landscapes of the southwest. His style ranges from plein air watercolors to large oil landscapes with abstract and surrealist elements. Sisson has spent the last forty years living in both areas of the United States yet he notes the most influential place for his artistic development was the time he spent in Japan as a young man. A talented painter from childhood, he attended art classes at the Worcester Art... Read full biography
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Laurence Sisson became a landscape painter and illustrator. He studied at Yale Summer School and was artist-in-residence at Publick House in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and in 1955 became Director of the Portland, Maine School of Fine and Applied Art. He is known for his paintings of the Maine coast and landscapes of the southwest. His style ranges from plein air watercolors to large oil landscapes with abstract and surrealist elements. Sisson has spent the last forty years living in both areas of the United States yet he notes the most influential place for his artistic development was the time he spent in Japan as a young man. A talented painter from childhood, he attended art classes at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. He painted professionally while in his early twenties although he had not yet decided to devote his life... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
- •Contemporary Impressionism, After 1940
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •Oriental Influence
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Skyscape, Clouds and/or Storms
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Grand Canyon, Arizona
- •Japan
Art Association
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
- •Artists of America
Art School
- •School of the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, Student
- •Yale University School of Fine Art and Architecture, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Miniature Specialty
- •Professional Museum and Art/ or Art Gallerist
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Allied Artists of America
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
- •Artists of America, Denver Rotary Club
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC