John Rutherford Boyd Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

The view of a crammed New York City subway car circa 1928 is depicted in wide-angle vision. The foreground figures are rendered with the type of lens distortion that is common today...

JOHN RUTHERFORD BOYD "LEGGETT'S" (FAMOUS NEW JERSEY RESTAURANT) MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER, SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1925 24.5 X 39.5 INCHES Rutherford (John Rutherford) Boyd 1884 - 1951 Rutherford was born in Philadelphia and lived during his career in New York City, New Orleans where he was a sketch artist, and Leonia, New Jersey. Beginning his career as an illustrator, Boyd Rutherford later became a painter, sculptor, designer and art educator. He also wrote numerous articles about fine art, which were published in many periodicals. He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art under Thomas Anshutz. After relocating to New York in 1905, he shortened his name to Rutherford Boyd and studied at the Art Students League Memberships included the American Watercolor Society, and the Architecture League, and exhibition venues include the Art Institute of Chicago. Painter, sculptor, watercolorist, draftsman and illustrator Rutherford Boyd made his living creating illustrations for magazines and exhibited his objective paintings and watercolors widely, but today is chiefly remembered for his abstract sculpture. Born John Rutherford Boyd in 1884 in Philadelphia, his father Peter K. Boyd (d. 1907) owned a woodworking shop that built furniture and architectural decorations. Boyd worked in his father’s shop until he entered Philadelphia’s Central Manual Training School in 1898. Granted a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) on graduation in 1901, Boyd first took evening classes at PAFA and in 1902 became a full-time student there. He took the conventional curriculum, studying under Thomas Anshutz (1851-1912) and Hugh Breckenridge (1870-1937). In 1903 Boyd left PAFA and moved to live with relations in Mount Vernon, N.Y. Two years later he moved to New York City, where he took an apartment with artist J. Scott...

JOHN RUTHERFORD BOYD "JESSE CRAWFORD AT THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE" WATERCOLOR, SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1930 23.25 X 12.25 INCHES 36 X 23.5 INCHES WITH FRAME John Rutherford Boyd 1885-1...