Arthur Webster Emerson (December 5, 1885 – July 18, 1968) was a painter who was born in
Honolulu
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,
Kingdom of Hawai'i
The Hawaiian Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language, Hawaiian: ɛ ɐwˈpuni həˈvɐjʔi, was an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country from 1795 to 1893, which eventually encompassed all of the inhabited Hawaii ...
. He was the son of
Nathaniel Bright Emerson, and grandson of missionaries John S. Emerson and
Ursula Newell Emerson. As a young Hawaiian-born artist, he was encouraged in his painting by
Madge Tennent. During the 1910s and 1920s, he painted in New York with other young artists associated with the
Ashcan School
The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, was an artistic movement in the United States during the late 19th-early 20th century that produced works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city's poorer neighborhoods.
T ...
. Emerson died in 1968.
[Severson, p. 123]
References
* Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) ''Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975'', New Providence, NJ, Marquis Who's Who, 1999, p. 3724.
* Fielding, Mantle & Glenn B. Opitz (Editor), ''Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers'', Poughkeepsie, NY, Apollo, 1986, p. 1081.
* Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge, ''Index of Artists, International-Biographical; Including Painters, Sculptors, Illustrators, Engravers and Etchers of the Past and the Present'', New York, P. Smith, 1935, p. 1130.
* Marlor, Clark S., ''The Society of Independent Artists, The Exhibition Record 1917-1944'', Park Ridge, N.J., Noyes Press, 1984, p. 600.
* Severson, Don R. ''Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections'', University of Hawaii Press, 2002, p. 123-4.
External links
Arthur Webster Emerson on AskArt.comSmithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog
Footnotes
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1885 births
1968 deaths
20th-century American painters
American male painters
Hawaiian Kingdom artists
20th-century American male artists