Arthur Webster Emerson
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Arthur Webster Emerson (December 5, 1885 – July 18, 1968) was a painter who was born in Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawai'i. He was the son of Nathaniel Bright Emerson, and grandson of missionaries John S. Emerson and Ursula Newell Emerson. As a young Hawaiian-born artist, he was encouraged in his painting by Madge Tennent.[1] During the 1910s and 1920s, he painted in New York with other young artists associated with the Ashcan School.[2] Emerson died in 1968.[3]
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- Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, New Providence, NJ, Marquis Who's Who, 1999, p. 3724.
- Fielding, Mantle & Glenn B. Opitz (Editor), Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Poughkeepsie, NY, Apollo, 1986, p. 1081.
- Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge, Index of Artists, International-Biographical; Including Painters, Sculptors, Illustrators, Engravers and Etchers of the Past and the Present, New York, P. Smith, 1935, p. 1130.
- Marlor, Clark S., The Society of Independent Artists, The Exhibition Record 1917-1944, Park Ridge, N.J., Noyes Press, 1984, p. 600.
- Severson, Don R. Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, p. 123-4.