John Whorf Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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
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
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1930s American Realist John Whorf Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sand Dunes, Cape Cod
By John Whorf
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Signed lower right: John Whorf
Provenance
Private collection
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20th Century John Whorf Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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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 ...
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20th Century John Whorf Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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$12,500
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...
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20th Century John Whorf Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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...
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"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,...
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20th Century John Whorf Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
$16,000
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