Arthur Webster Emerson

Arthur Webster Emerson (December 5, 1885 – July 18, 1968) was a painter who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the son of Nathaniel Bright Emerson, and grandson of missionaries John S. Emerson and Ursula Newell Emerson. As a youngster Hawaiian-born artist, he was encouraged in his painting by Madge Tennent. During the 1910s and 1920s, he painted in New York with new young artists allied with the Ashcan School. Emerson died in 1968.

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