Artist
Harry Willson Watrous
American, 1857–1940
Harry Willson Watrous was an American American Impressionism painter. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them oil paintings. Harry Willson Watrous was born in San Francisco.
Harry Willson Watrous (17 September 1857 – 10 May 1940) was an American visual artist who received an academic education in France. His paintings included genre scenes, stylized figural works, landscapes, nocturnes, portraits, religious subjects, and still lifes. His 1913 painting The Drop Sinister, What Shall We Do with It? has been called the first known portrait of an American interracial family.
He is perhaps best known for his enigmatic paintings of sophisticated women, often darkly dressed and seen in profile.
Works by Harry Willson Watrous
Collections represented
Artists in a similar vein
