Arthur Crisp
Canadian painter, 1881–1974, active in United States
Commissioned to paint British and Canadian recruiting works on the Boston Common in 1918 for the Canadian War Memorials Society, and painted decorations for the Reading Room of the new House of Commons building in Ottawa in the early 1920s.
Crisp also designed embroidered silk and velvet hangings which were made by his wife, Mary Ellen Crisp. Crisp was a member of numerous art organizations including the Architectural League of New York and the National Society of Mural Painters (New York) He was a founding member of the Allied Artists of America, the American Water Color Society and the New York Water Color Club.
He retired to Biddeford Pool, Maine, USA, in 1956 and gave a large collection of his work to the Art Gallery of Hamilton in 1963. Arthur Crisp died on June 28, 1974. He was 93.
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British sculptor, typographer, and author, 1882–1940
American painter, illustrator, author, 1895–1976
American painter and illustrator, 1874–1961
American illustrator, painter, printmaker, and author, born 1940
British painter, 1867–1948
Canadian painter and illustrator, 1842–1910