John Winthrop Andrews Art

John Winthrop Andrews was born on August 31, 1879 in Newtonville, Massachusetts. He studied at the Massachusetts School of Art with Frank Vincent DuMond, Edward Hamilton, and Joseph DeCamp. DuMond was an influential teacher, counting among his students J. Winthrop Andrews and Gifford Beal. Along with Andrews, DuMond exhibited a painting called October in the first exhibit of the Yonkers Art Association, 1916. Andrews was best known as a painter of colorful landscapes and seascapes. Andrews visited Bermuda from about 1910, the same year as his marriage to Alice G. Blaisdell. Andrews was a prominent art educator whose work was cited in numerous teaching periodicals of the time. Historical records list Andrews as the Supervisor of Drawing in Chicopee, Massachusetts and as the Director of Art for the Yonkers Public School system in New York. He was an active member of the Yonkers Art Association for many years. He served on the original Board of Directors of the association which was formed in 1916. Also, Andrews was a member of the Yonkers Municipal Art Commission and the Eastern Art Association in New Haven, Connecticut. Andrews exhibited a painting entitled, Autumnal Ash, at the Yonkers Museum of Science and the Arts in 1934. This exhibition featured many distinguished artists such as Charles Gruppe and Walter Farndon. Andrews died on June 18, 1964, in Huntington, New York. He was interred in Fairview Cemetery in Chicopee. Andrews was survived by his daughter, Elizabeth Blaisdell Andrews.