Author: CT State Library

Thew, Robert Garrett (1892-1964)Robert Garrett Thew (aka R. Garrett Thew or Garrett Thew) was born in Sharon, Connecticut in 1892.  He was a painter and sculptor. He attended Syracuse University and the New York City Art Students League and studied under Edward Penfield, Walter Briggs, and John Carlson. Thew was associated with the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency and prod...

Sullivan, Francis (?)Francis Sullivan joined the WPA Federal Arts Project in 1938 and worked well into 1939. He lived in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a “well known painter and president of the Connecticut League of Art Students in Hartford.” Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Federal Arts Project Newsletter (ND).Works of Art Listed in CT Archives' database from Francis ...

Stephenson, Eunice (?)All we know about Eunice Stephenson is that she illustrated children’s books, in 1939 she completed a mural for the WPA Federal Arts Project entitled Nursery Tales at the Julius Stark School in Stamford, and that her husband, James Cochran, died on November 16, 1942. Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; “The New Books for Boys and Girls,” New York Times, ...

Steinhart, Walter (?)Walter Steinhart was a wood carver who worked in the framing department at the Federal Arts Project headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut. He made frames, mats, and screens. His residence was in New Haven. Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Federal Arts Project Newsletter (ND).Works of Art Listed in CT Archives' database from Walter Steinhart:Steinh...

Stavola, S. Jerome (1904-1984) Jerome Stavola was born in Hartford, Connecticut 1904. Little is known about his family, education, or when his interest in art started. In the fall of 1924 he left Hartford for New York City to study art at the New York School of Design. He also studied at the Norwich Art School. By 1934 he was known for “his portraits and other easel work.” In ...

Soderberg, Yngve E. (1896-1972) Yngve Soderberg was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1896. He may have studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. When he came east he studied at the Art Students’ League in New York City on a one year scholarship. He also traveled in Europe to study art for one year. He eventually settled in Mystic, Connecticut and remained there for the rest of his ...

Smith, Phillip (?)Phillip Smith lived in Hartford, Connecticut and worked for the WPA Federal Arts Project from December 5, 1935, to April 15, 1938. Nine of his works were for the Index of American Design. All of his other paintings were allocated to places in Hartford. He painted six panels of a mural on sports for the Pope Park Community Center, three panels on nursery rhymes...

Sloane Jr., Thomas O’Conor (1879-1963) Thomas O’Conor Sloane, Jr. worked for the WPA Federal Arts Project taking photographs of historic Connecticut interiors. A gum print that he created was shown at the Connecticut Tercentenary exhibition in New Haven.  He is the son of Isabel X. Mitchel and Dr. Thomas O'Conor Sloane (1851-1940) who was a scientist, inventor, author, edito...

Skreczko, Henry (1906-?)Henry Skreczko was born on October 23, 1906, in New York City. Soon after his birth his family moved to Shelton, Connecticut where he attended the local public schools. He studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts for four years. After graduating he assisted on several mural jobs in New York City under Griffith Bailey Cole, Leroy Daniel McMorris, Rambush D...

Skidmore, Arba R.(?)Arba Skidmore was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the Mohegan Lake School in New York and the Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Before becoming an artist, he worked as a salesman for Chase and Sanborn for several years. Skidmore left this job to study art at the Art Students League in New York for one year before World War One. After...