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Dec 9, 1970 · Henry Varnum Poor, the art 1st, died yesterday at his home in New City, N. Y. He was 82 years old. Mr. Poor, who was born in Chapman, Kan., Sept. 30, 1888, had achieved many honors in many fields ...
1887 -1970. Henry Varnum Poor was born on September 30, 1887, in Chapman, Kansas. From 1896-1905 his family lived in Kansas City, Missouri, where his father, A.J. Poor, was a member of the Kansas City Board of Trade. In Kansas City, Poor attended the Manual Training School, where he studied drafting, carpentry, and other industrial arts.
Less than an hour north of Manhattan, in a serene woodland setting, Crow House is the home and studio of Henry Varnum Poor (1887-1970), whom The New Yorker magazine, in 1931, lauded as one of America's finest painters. A ceramist, muralist, craftsman, architect and polemicist as well, Poor went on to co-found the Skowhegan School of Painting ...
Typical Marks. Henry Varnum Poor’s ceramics are typically signed with a linked HVP in which the center V is formed by the right vertical of the H and the vertical of the P angled downward and joined to form the V. Poor adopted this linked HVP mark in the mid to late 1920's, and used it on all his ceramics going forward.
See all 3 artworks ›. Plate with Still Life, 1922–23. Henry Varnum Poor. Plate with Landscape, 1923. Henry Varnum Poor. Portrait of Mrs. Tiffany Blake, c. 1955. Henry Varnum Poor.
Dec 15, 2022 · Born in Chapman, Kansas, in 1887, Henry Varnum Poor became a prominent American Realist artist in the 1920s and 30s, renowned for his ceramics and frescoes. He was accepted at Stanford University in 1906, where he discovered his passion for art.
Henry Varnum Poor was an artist, who like many, worked in multiple mediums. His work shows the influence of international art movements. Trained as a painter, Poor studied abroad, first in London at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he became acquainted with the work of of the Omega Workshops and Roger Fry, as well as modern French painting.
