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Paul Dougherty (American, 1877–1947)
Two Bathers, n.d.

Monotype, 10 x 15 5/8 in.
Collection of The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. Gift of
the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2001.9.93

Although Paul Dougherty, on the urging of his lawyer father,
earned his law degree from New York Law School in 1898 and
passed the New York State bar exam, he never practiced law.
Instead, he became, without any formal training, a noted
marine artist. Of some means, Dougherty went abroad in 1900
and lived and worked in Europe for many years, settling for a
while in St. Ives on the southwest coast of England. He
returned to the United States in 1904 and began pursuing
marine subjects. Dougherty received countless awards throughout his career, most notably a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. He also completed
an interesting body of figural monotypes, many of which were
large-scale nudes. Dougherty maintained a studio in Paris, in
addition to his New York home until 1930. For health reasons,
Dougherty moved a year later to Carmel, California, where he
became a part of the flourishing West Coast art colony.
NOTES:
Dearinger, Paintings and Sculpture, 165.

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