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Franklin Watkins

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Franklin Chenault "Watty" Watkins (1894 - 1972) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Franklin Watkins is known for Portrait, figure, genre and still life painting, commercial art.

Born in New York City, Franklin Watkins, whose nickname was "Watty," was known for a painting style of "dramatic realism", which emerged in the mid 1920s and was "characterized by surging diagonals, expressionistic distortions and despite a brushy facture, insistent wiry outlines." (Baigell, 369)

He spent his boyhood in Philadelphia and took his art training at the Pennsylvania Academy from 1913 to 1918. However, his studies were interrupted due to financial difficulties and World War I in which he enlisted in the Navy with his life-long friend, Arthur B Carles. Watkins had "service as a civilian wartime ship camouflage* artist for the U.S. Shipping Board in Philadelphia." (Behrens)

He then spent five years as a commercial artist and in 1923, traveled to Europe on a Cresson Scholarship* and spent time in France, Spain, and Italy.  His study of the Old Masters* much influenced his future career. After teaching at the Tyler School of Art* at Temple University and the P   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2231 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Franklin Watkins available:    John Neagle,  Henry McCarter,  Saul Schary,  Abraham Rattner,  Morris Blackburn,  Alexander Kruse,  Frederick Stuart Church,  Morton Livingston Schamberg,  Mildred Bunting Miller,  Joseph Hirsch,  Walter Stuempfig Jr,  Newbold Trotter,  Hobson Lafayette Pittman,  Kenyon C Cox,  Arthur Szyk,  Karl Knaths,  Arthur Beecher Carles Jr,  Yasuo Kuniyoshi,  Eugene Higgins,  Earl Horter,  Louis Kronberg,  Violet Oakley,  Robert Street,  Alexander Brook



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Franklin Watkins


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Advertising Art
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
  • Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
  • Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Europe
Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Teacher
  • Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
  • Andrew Carnegie Prize, National Academy of Design
  • Carol Beck Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
  • Cresson Traveling Scholarship
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Camouflage Artist
  • Commercial Art and Design
  • Figure Specialty
  • Genre Specialty
  • Mural Specialty
  • Printmaking Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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