Artist. He studied with William Merritt Chase and the Barbizon School artists. He is best remembered for his impressionist landscape paintings which are on exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Many others are in private collections. His career began in New York City as an etcher and illustrator. Along with his wife, Annie, he founded the New Hope Art Colony alongside the Delaware River in Pennsylvania. He attracted many art students and started exhibiting his work across the nation. As he gained success, he found time to pursue his interest in sailing and he built a wooden sailboat in his backyard, naming it, "The Widge." Albert Einstein was once one of his many sailboat guests. In September, 1938, he was sailing along the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, when a hurricane struck. He moored his boat in Montauk Bay which offered some shelter and remained aboard. The following day, the Widge survived, but Lathrop was gone. His body washed ashore nearby about a month later. The year before he died, he completed a painting of a storm on the Atlantic Ocean called "The Black Squall."
Artist. He studied with William Merritt Chase and the Barbizon School artists. He is best remembered for his impressionist landscape paintings which are on exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Many others are in private collections. His career began in New York City as an etcher and illustrator. Along with his wife, Annie, he founded the New Hope Art Colony alongside the Delaware River in Pennsylvania. He attracted many art students and started exhibiting his work across the nation. As he gained success, he found time to pursue his interest in sailing and he built a wooden sailboat in his backyard, naming it, "The Widge." Albert Einstein was once one of his many sailboat guests. In September, 1938, he was sailing along the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, when a hurricane struck. He moored his boat in Montauk Bay which offered some shelter and remained aboard. The following day, the Widge survived, but Lathrop was gone. His body washed ashore nearby about a month later. The year before he died, he completed a painting of a storm on the Atlantic Ocean called "The Black Squall."
Bio by: Bernadette
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