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HENRY VARNUM POOR Summer Landscape Homestead.
Oil on canvas on board. 502x610 mm; 19 3/4x24 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Poor (1887-1970) was born in Kansas and attended Stanford Univeristy. Despite opposition from his family, after graduation he went off to London and studied with the artist Walter Sickert at the Slade School and then in Paris at the Academié Julian. He returned to California in the early 1910s and taught art at Stanford before his service in the US Army during World War I. After the war, Poor moved to New York and struggled to make a living as an artist during the Great Depression (he worked as a muralist in the WPA and later as an illustrator). While continuing to pursue his painting career, he also became a talented ceramicist and sculptor. Though reluctant to pursue teaching during the 1920s/1930s, Poor ultimately retruned to his roots as an instructor and in 1946 co-founded the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine.
