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Charles Cahoon

Charles Drew Cahoon (1861 - 1951) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Charles Cahoon is known for Sea-landscape, genre and portrait painting.

A popular and prolific painter on Cape Cod during the early 20th century, Charles Cahoon became known for carefully detailed, peaceful landscapes and seascapes of Cape-Cod views. It is thought that he painted nearly 3000 paintings, and many of them included fishing scenes and weather beaten houses with soft light and mellow tone. He also maintained a studio in Boston and was prosperous until the stock market crash of 1929. After that he continued painting but never recaptured his earlier success.

He was born in Harwich, Massachusetts to a father who was a sea captain and amateur artist, and as a youngster, Charles copied sketches of his fathers. He also spent time at sea and did sketching from those experiences.

In Boston, he studied photography---then a new art form, and he earned a living retouching photographs until he turned to painting full time in 1900. His first paintings included buildings and portraits, including copies of Gilbert Stuart's Martha and George Washi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1164 characters.]  Artist bio

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7 Book References for Charles Cahoon
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
2001 Chatham Historical Society Picturing Chatham American Landscape Painting 1882-1971 48 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1994 Sykes, Barbara McCready He Painted Cape Cod 0 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
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