About
Painter known for "Lightning and Thunder at Night," "February Thaw," and other visionary watercolor images.
Before Fame
He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1916 and had his first artistic exhibition in New York in the same year.
Trivia
He settled in rural New York state, and his paintings showed a great reverence for nature and an accompanying disdain for the encroaching threat of industrialization.
Family Life
He married Bertha Kenreich in 1922; together the couple had five children.
Associated With
He was a close friend and artistic contemporary of Edward Hopper.
