Art Appreciation
Stephen Morgan Etnier was born on September 11, 1903, in York, Pennsylvania, into a family of privilege. Although he initially followed family expectations to enter the manufacturing business, he instead pursued art. His education was varied and somewhat irregular -- attending institutions such as Haverford School, Yale's School of Art, Haverford College, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He apprenticed under artists including Rockwell Kent and John Carroll in the mid-1920s.
Etnier launched his solo exhibition career in New York in 1931 and later showed at Midtown Galleries through the 1960s. During World War II, he paused paintings to serve in the U.S. Navy as an officer aboard convoy and troop ships from 1942 to 1945. After the war, he settled in South Harpswell, Maine, building his studio-home "Old Cove" in 1948. The 1950s and 60s marked his most productive period -- he exhibited widely, won awards such as the National Academy of Design's Saltus Medal and Samuel F.B. Morse Gold Medal, and received honorary doctorates from Bates and Bowdoin Colleges.
Etnier painted in a realist and luminist style -- his scenes often showed coastal and industrial subjects with precise composition and an emphasis on atmospheric light. He worked mostly en plein air, rising early to capture morning light on Maine waterfronts, boats, buoys, wharves and select tropical locales during winter voyages. Among his well-known works are Still Morning (1960), Fort Popham (1981), Storefront, Nassau (1957), the mural Waiting for the Mail (Spring Valley, NY, 1938), and Mail from New England (Boston, 1940).
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