Prellwitz, Henry

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Title

Prellwitz, Henry

Cornish Dates

1887; 1890 to 1898

Cornish Residence(s)

Doveridge (1887)
Ruggles' Farm (1890-91)
Prellwitz's Shanty (1895)

Invited By

Thomas Dewing

Invited With

Maurice Prendergast

Birth

13 Nov 1865
New York, New York

Death

13 Mar 1940
East Greenwich, Rhode Island

Non-Cornish Residence

New York, New York

Spouse

Edith Mitchill Prellwitz
Married 6 Oct 1894

Profession

Painter

Location Studied

City College of New York
Art Students League
Académie Julian

Studied Under

Thomas Dewing
Kenyon Cox
H. Siddons Mowbray
George de Forest Brush
Robert Reid

Affiliations

Treasurer, National Academy of Design
Giverny
Tiffany Glass Company
Society of American Artists
Pratt Institute (instructor)
Director, Art Students League
McKim, Mead & White
Salmagundi Club

Awards

Hallgarten Prize (National Academy of Design1893)
Bronze, Pan-American Exposition (Buffalo, 1901)
Silver, Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis, 1904)
Clarke Prize (National Academy of Design, 1907)

Sources

University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, A Circle of Friends: Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin (Dublin NH: University of New Hampshire, 1985), 104-105.

Dearinger, David Bernard, Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925 (New York: Hudson Hills, 2004), 450-451.

Evans, Sara, "A Love of Art and of Place: The Prellwitz Family of Peconic," Fine Art Connoisseur, Sep 2013.

Pisano, Ronald G and William H Gerdts, Painters of Peconic: Edith Prellwitz (1864-1944) & Henry Prellwitz (1865-1940) (New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2002).

Henry Prellwitz - Wikipedia

Citation

“Prellwitz, Henry,” The Cornish Colony Compendium, accessed September 20, 2024, https://cornishcolony.org/items/show/442.