Arthur Webster Emerson

Blue Shimmering into Green, oil on canvas painting by Arthur Webster Emerson, 1915

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]

  1. ^ Severson, p. 123
  2. ^ Severson, p. 124
  3. ^ Severson, p. 123