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George Essig

George Emerick Essig (1838 - 1926) was active/lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania.  George Essig is known for Marine and marshland landscape painting.

George Emerick Essig was born in Philadelphia and reputedly studied with the marine painters James Hamilton (1819-1878) and Edward Moran (1829-1901).  He also became a specialist in marine scenes and often painted scenes of the New Jersey coast.

Essig exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1876 to 1888.  He moved to Atlantic City, possibly around 1880, and practiced dentistry in Ventnor.

Paintings by him once hung in the Dennis Hotel and Chalfont-Haddon Hall in Atlantic City.  Essig's primary medium was watercolor, but in the late 1880s and early '90s he made etchings that were usually based on the subjects of his paintings.

Some sources give his death date as 1919, but more recent information states that he was still living in Atlantic City in 1925.  A large number of Essig's works are owned by the Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery in Reading, Pennsylvania.

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11 Book References for George Essig
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Schwarz-Philadelphia American Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)
30 No
1982 Brewington, Dorothy E R Dictionary of Marine Artists (Peabody Museum) 431 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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