Paul Dougherty (artist)

Paul Hampden Dougherty (September 6, 1877 – January 9, 1947) was an American marine painter. Dougherty (pronounced dog-er-tee) was recognized for his American Impressionism paintings of the coasts of Maine and Cornwall in the years after the slant of the 20th century. His act out has been described as bold and masculine, and he was best known for his many paintings of breakers crashing adjacent to rocky coasts and mountain landscapes. Dougherty after that painted nevertheless lifes, created prints and sculpted.

The son of a prominent attorney, Dougherty graduated from law learned and passed the bar, but chose art beyond the law. His artistic training was relatively brief. An erudite man and a world traveler, Dougherty sketched and exhibited extensively on both the east and west coasts of the United States, in the British Isles, throughout Europe and in Asia. He spent the first half of his career based in the east, but he moved west in 1928 and eventually spent the summers in Carmel, California and the cooler winter months in the desert. Dougherty won almost all major honor at the annual exhibitions of the National Academy of Design in New York, as with ease as a Gold Medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. By 1915 many American museums had purchased his works for their remaining collections. He was elected to relationship of the National Academy of Design.