PAUL DOUGHERTY BIOGRAPHY
Paul Dougherty was born in Brooklyn, New York. Following in his father's footsteps,he graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1896 and New York Law School in 1898. Much to his family's chagrin, he took a hard left turn and decided to become an artist. From 1900 to 1905, he studied with Robert Henri and in Europe.
Returning to the U.S. Paul Dougherty painted along the coast of Maine, where his paintings were compared to those of Winslow Homer. Of his success, John Sloan said: "Everything came to him; all his pictures sold, he won all the prizes. The rich delighted to honor him, and his wives were glamorous" (Falk).
In 1907, he was elected a Member to the National Academy of Design in New York. He experimented with sculpture but settled on marine paintings, primarily focused on the ocean. Arthritis forced him to seek a milder climate, and in 1928, he began spending his winters in Arizona where he painted desert landscapes and mountains. In 1931, he moved to the Monterey Peninsula in California.
His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Joslyn Museum in Omaha; and the Fort Worth Museum in Texas as well as many other museums.
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