William Cotton (artist)

This article is about the portraitist and caricaturist. For the contemporary painter (b. 1965), see Will Cotton.

William Henry Cotton (July 22, 1880 – January 5, 1958) was an American portrait painter, caricaturist, and playwright.

Cotton was born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1880. He studied painting with Joseph DeCamp and Andreas Anderson at the Cowles Art School in Boston, and then at the Académie Julian in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens.[1][2]

  1. ^ Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design (Hudson Hills, 2004) ISBN 978-1-55595-029-3
  2. ^ nytimes.com, Russel, An Art School That Also Taught Life, p.2