John Whorf Art
American, 1903-1959
John Whorf was a master watercolorist and a native of Boston. He was known for his depictions of genre subjects and views of harbors and beach scenes. He studied painting at the St. Botolph Studio and School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and École Nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. Whorf was awarded an honorary M.A. degree from Harvard University in 1938 and received a medal in 1938 and a prize in 1939 from the Art Institute of Chicago. His first exhibition of 52 paintings, when he was 20, sold out. After many years of traveling, Whorf spent the last years of his life in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and was part of its art colony for many years. He died there in 1959.
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Artist: John Whorf
Ships in a Harbor
By John Whorf
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Ships in a Harbor
Oil on canvas, 19 x 24 inches (48.3 x 61 cm)
Signed lower right: John Whorf
Provenance
The artist;
Collection of Ginger and Richard Beckwith, until 2021;
Private c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist John Whorf Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$87,500
Harbor View
By John Whorf
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Harbor View
Oil on canvas, 24 x 49 inches (61 x 124.5 cm)
Signed lower right: John Whorf
Provenance
The artist;
Collection of Ginger and Richard Beckwith, until 2021;
Private collec...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist John Whorf Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$85,000
Provincetown Seaside Landscape
By John Whorf
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
John Whorf was born in Boston in 1903. His father, Harry Whorf, was an artist and graphic designer. When John decided at a young age to become an artist himself, his father provided ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist John Whorf Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sand Dunes, Cape Cod
By John Whorf
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Signed lower right: John Whorf
Provenance
Private collection
Sand Dunes, Cape Cod amply demonstrates John Whorf’s expert handling of the watercolor medium. The fluidity of his styl...
Category
20th Century John Whorf Art
Materials
Watercolor
Salmon Fishing
By John Whorf
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist sporting painting with salmon fisherman in a canoe by American artist John Whorf (1903-1959). Whorf was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts and by the age of sixteen...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist John Whorf Art
Materials
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$22,000
"Barbados"
By John Whorf
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by John Whorf (1903 - 1959).
Watercolorist John Whorf was born in Massachusetts in 1903. At age 14, Whorf attende...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist John Whorf Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
$36,875
Cutting The Ice/New England Winter Landscape
By John Whorf
Located in Milford, NH
A fine watercolor painting of men cutting ice on a pond or lake by American artist John Whorf (1903-1959). Whorf was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts and by the age of sixteen, he had...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist John Whorf Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Keepers Of The Bell, American Realist Watercolor Painting by John Whorf
By John Whorf
Located in Long Island City, NY
Keepers Of The Bell by John Whorf, American (1903–1959)
Date: circa 1930
Watercolor on paper, signed lower right
Size: 14 x 21 in. (35.56 x 53.34 cm)
Frame Size: 20.5 x 28.5 inches
Category
1930s American Realist John Whorf Art
Materials
Watercolor
The Sloop Catherine, 1927
By John Whorf
Located in New York, NY
John Whorf paints a ship anchored in a harbor from below, with its prow and rigging extending towards the viewer, in his watercolor painting “The Sloop Catherine, 1927.”
Category
20th Century John Whorf Art
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Crashing Waves
By John Whorf
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Framed dimensions 20 7/8 x 27 5/8 inches
Provenance
The artist;
Beckwith family, artist's godson (gift from the artist), Wellesley Hills, MA;
By descent in the family, until 2021
S...
Category
20th Century John Whorf Art
Materials
Watercolor
$12,500
John Whorf Watercolor - Morning, Barbados
By John Whorf
Located in Phoenix, AZ
John Whorf (1903-1959) watercolor, boats in Barbados.
Measures: 16 1/4" H x 23" W. In excellent condition, framed.
Signed lower left.
The Island men setting out for the day's catch.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century John Whorf Art
Materials
Paper
$17,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Farmyard in Snow
By John Whorf
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Original watercolor by John Whorf; winter scene
Signed lower right: John Whorf
Framed dimensions: 21 x 27 inches
John Whorf was born in Boston in 1903. His father, Harry Whorf, was ...
Category
20th Century John Whorf Art
Materials
Watercolor
$12,500
Leaping Marlin (with fisherman on the boat Islander) by John Whorf
By John Whorf
Located in Hudson, NY
John Whorf captures one of the thrilling moments of fishing in this watercolor – when the fish is on the line, but still trying to escape. One of the fastest fish in the world, marlin fishing...
Category
1950s American Modern John Whorf Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Crashing Surf"
By John Whorf
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed LM
John Whorf was one of the most accomplished and esteemed watercolorists of the first half of the twentieth century. Creating realist depictions of urban and rural imagery,...
Category
20th Century John Whorf Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$16,000
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