Author: CT State Library

Waterbury, Blanche (1878-1950)All that is known about Blanche Waterbury is that she worked for the WPA Art Project in 1936, and that she was living in Wilton, Connecticut at the time. She may have worked for the Index of American Design since she painted four renderings of a hall lantern in watercolor. Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; Ancestry.com.Works of Art Listed in CT Arch...

Wakeman, Robert C. (1889-1964)Robert Wakeman was born in Norwalk, Connecticut on October 26, 1889. He attended the Yale School of Fine Arts. He was a member of the National Arts Club and the Silvermine Guild of Artists, and he exhibited across the country. For Norwalk’s tercentenary, he created a commemorative coin for the Norwalk Historical Society. Prior to the WPA Federal Ar...

Vetter, Cornelia Cowles (1881-1959)Like Edith Dale Monson, Cornelia Vetter was one of the most important female artists in the history of the Hartford art colony. She was born in the city in 1881. Her years of greatest prominence were in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Vetter graduated from Hartford High School in 1894 and attended the Pratt Institute in New York City beginning in 1898....

Treadwell, Grace A. (1893-1989) Grace Treadwell was born in 1893 in West Chop, Massachusetts. She studied art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Students’ League in New York, and the Grand Chaumiere in Paris. She was a member of the Pen and Brush Club of New York City and the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA). She served as president of the latter from 194...

Townsend, Harry Everett (1879-1941) Harry Townsend was born in 1879 on a farm in Wyoming, Illinois. Early in life he earned a living working with a sign painter. He completed high school and went to the University of Wisconsin. He was interested in art and transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied painting under Frederick Freer and Frank Duveneck and sculpti...

Tomlinson, Henry (1875-1949)Henry Tomlinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 18, 1875. He attended local public schools and Baltimore City College. He also took drawing courses at night, and in 1895 he received the Peabody Prize at the Maryland Institute of Art. When Tomlinson was 21 he moved to New York where he studied art for a year with the Art Students League a...

Tock, A. J. (?)A. J. Tock completed one known work for the WPA Federal Arts Project. Nothing else is known about him.Works of Art Listed in CT Archives' database from A. Tock:In Mr. White's Office:oilLange Mural:oilUntitled Mural: Tree:watercolorTock, A. J.

Tillinghast, Archie (1909-?)Archie Tillinghast was born on June 8, 1909, in Stonington, Connecticut. He attended primary school in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey before graduating from the East Side High School in Newark, New Jersey. From 1929 until 1931 he studied art at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. Tillinghast’s work was exhibited at th...

Thwing, Francis (1884-1967)Francis Thwing was born on the July 27, 1884. He painted three murals for the WPA Federal Arts Project at the Newington Home for Crippled Children, the Children’s Village, and Kinsella School in Hartford. Thwing died in May of 1967 in Maine. Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; Social Security and Death Index; “Mural to Hang at Newington Home for Crippled...

Thorsen, Lars (1876-1952) Lars Thorsen was born in Norway on November 20, 1876. He worked various maritime jobs throughout his life including mess-boy, sail-maker, rigger, and Grand Banks fisherman. He had no formal art training but taught himself to paint while at sea. He became famous for his marine paintings and won the Bunce Prize from the Connecticut of Academy of Fine Ar...