John Whorf Paintings
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
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Collection of Ginger and Richard Beckwith, until 2021;
Private c...
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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 ...
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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
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Collection of Ginger and Richard Beckwith, until 2021;
Private collec...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist John Whorf Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$85,000
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...
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Cutting The Ice/New England Winter Landscape
By John Whorf
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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...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist John Whorf Paintings
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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.”
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Materials
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