John Whorf (1903-1959), American
Watercolor on paper (21 1/4" x 14")
Woodland Pond
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John Whorf (1903-1959)

Whorf was born in Winthrop, MA and died in Provincetown.  He studied with his father Harry C. Whorf, at the St. Botolph Studio in Boston with Sherman Kidd at the age of 14, at Boston’s Museum School with William James and Philip Leslie Hale in 1917; and in Provincetown after 1917-1918 with Charles W. Hawthorne; with Max Bohm, Richard Miller, Garrett Beneker, George Elmer Browne and E.A. Webster in Provincetown and in Paris after 1919 at the Academy de la Grande Chaumiere, the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academie Colarossi and with John Singer Sargent in Boston as late as 1924-1925.

Whorf was an Associate and a full Academician of the National Academy of Design (1947) and a member of the American Water Color Society; the Florida Water Color Society; The Beachcombers; and the Provincetown Art Association. He was given his first solo exhibition in 1924 at the Grace Horne Gallery in Boston and the Milch Galleries in New York gave him 32 solo exhibitions. Awards include medals the California Water Color Society; Art Institute of Chicago (1939, 1943) and an honorary M.A. from Harvard University in 1939.

John Whorf is noted for his watercolor paintings in the 20th Century and for a style much influenced by John Singer Sargent.
The artist’s work is represented in a long list of museums around the world, including the  Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); Metropolitan Museum of Art; M.I.T.;,Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden; Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy; Yale University; Baltimore Museum of Art and more.

Source: AskArt, Pierce Galleries