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LOT 54:
Paul Dougherty (1877 - 1947) American
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$1,500 - $2,000
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Paul Dougherty (1877 - 1947) American
Paul Dougherty (1877 - 1947) Oil on Masonite Board, Signed Lower Right, Measures ( 6 x 10 inches ) w/frame ( 9 x 13 inches ) Born in Brooklyn, New York, Paul Dougherty became a widely-known painter of dramatic marine scenes and desert landscapes although his family hoped he would become a lawyer.Following his father who was an attorney, he graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1896 and New York Law School in 1898. But he changed professions to art and studied with Robert Henri and in Europe for five years from 1900 to 1905.Paul Dougherty then painted along the coast of Maine, and his paintings were compared to those of Winslow Homer. Of his success, John Sloan said: "Everything came to him; all his pictures sold, he won all the prizes. The rich delighted to honor him, and his wives were glamorous" (Falk).In 1907, he was elected a Member to the National Academy of Design in New York. He experimented with sculpture but settled on marine paintings, primarily focused on the ocean. Arthritis forced him to seek a milder climate,
Condition: Good Condition
