Born Harold Kerr Eby, Eby went by his middle name throughout most of his adult life.
Hartford Courant Sunday, March 26, 1944, p. 11:
"Eby, Westport and Bougainville Artist, Depicts 'Bearded Babies'
BY SGT. Harold Powell
Marine Corps Combat Correspondent
Bougainville.–(AP.)–(Delayed)–
With Sketching pencil in hand, one of America's foremost artists, white-haired, Japan-born, Kerr Eby is now in the South Pacific covering his second war.
He was a sergeant in the AEF in 1917-18; now, 26 years later, as an accredited war correspondent for the Abbott Laboratories of Chicago, he was with the Marines at Tarawa and on Bougainville.
At Tarawa he fretted for three days before he was allowed to go ashore, humoring his 54 years. Even on the third day, 'snipers were all over the place. Once, while I talked to an officer, two bullets kicked up the turf beside my foot.'
Again, while sitting on what presumably was just a mound of earth, he heard a Marine sergeant suddenly yell, 'get the hell offa there!' 'When they say "get off" you "get," ' he laughed.
The Marines then advanced, tossing hand grenades into a half-buried pill box full of live Japs!
On Bougainville, Eby lived in a foxhole for three weeks, hastily fashioning rough drawings of jungle fighting scenes.
'These Marines are fighting guys, no matter where they are. I saw them for the first time in the last war as my division relieved the famous Fifth and Sixth regiments of Marines at Belleau Wood.'
'I call them "bearded babies." Tobacco-chewing, profane, trying to be beyond their years. Yet serious, game, deadly fighters. Many should be back in school.'
At home, Eby divides his time between his home in Westport, Conn., and his private 'Shangri-la' at Friendship, Maine, where he completed many etchings of New England snow scenes. In recent years, he is perhaps best known for these.
By what he calls 'an ironic twist of fate,' he was born in Japan in 1889 where his father was a Methodist minister. Two years later they moved to Canada, where he completed his high-school education.
During the last war he was naturalized in France while in the Army. But the papers were lost and he had to be renaturalized after his return to America.
He can't remember when he first wanted to become an artist. He has been an illustrator for such magazines as Harpers, Century, Scribners, and Everybody's magazine. He is a member of the National Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters, and his works have been shown in New York under the sponsorship of Fred Keppel Co., at the Grand Central, Harlow, and the Associated American Artists Galleries.
From World War I he brought home the thumbnail sketches which later appeared in his book, War, published in 1936–'a protest against the horror and waste of it.' "
Norwalk Hour (Norwalk, Conn.), Tuesday, November 19, 1949, p. 12:
"KERR EBY DIES; WAS NOTED ARTIST
Westporter Succumbs Suddenly In Hospital; One of America's Foremost Etchers
Kerr Eby, of North avenue, Westport, internationally famous etcher, and more recently war correspondent-artist with the U. S. Marines, died suddenly at 2:45 P. M. yesterday in Norwalk Hospital after a short illness. He was 57.
A sergeant in the Army Engineers Corps during World War I, Mr. Eby accompanied the Marines in the Pacific during the second world conflict, covering the Tarawa landing and other engagements. Ten years ago he published a book of pictures entitled "War."
Born in Japan
Considered one of America's foremost etchers, Mr. Eby's works at portrait, landscape, animals and architecture have been exhibited in galleries of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and other large American cities. He had been an illustrator for such magazines as Harpers, Century, Scribners and Everybody's Magazine.
He was a member of the National Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters.
Born in Japan in 1889 of Canadian parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Charles S. Eby, he moved with his family to Canada at an early age. He came to the United States in 1907.
Westport Resident 25 Years
Mr. Eby moved to Westport about 25 years ago and had divided his time between his home there and his private "Shangrila" at Friendship, Maine, where he completed many etchings of New England snow scenes.
He is survived by his widow, Phyllis Brevoort Barretto, whom he married in 1935. His first wife, the former Frances Shelton, died in 1932.
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at Christ and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Westport, with the Rev. Frederic L. C. Lorentzen, rector, officiating. Interment will be at the convenience of the family."
Greenwich Time (Greenwich, Conn.), Tuesday, November 19, 1946, p. 2, col. 1:
"Kerr Eby, Noted Etcher, Dies At 57
Kerr Eby, of Westport, noted etcher and former husband of the late Frances Sheldon Eby, formerly of Greenwich, died yesterday in Norwalk Hospital after a brief illness. He was 57 years old.
He married Frances Sheldon, daughter of George Sheldon, formerly of Greenwich, in 1920. She died in 1932, and he married again three years later.
He specialized in portraying the horror of war in his etchings, but landed on Tarawa with the Marines in the recent conflict as an artist war correspondent and served in the Army in World War I. He lived in Westport for more than 25 years."
Eby's Will recorded in the Town of Westport in Manuscript Volume 51, page 349 left $1,000 to Leonora Sisco and the balance to his wife, Phyllis Brevoort Eby. In the event that his wife did not survive him, he left his estate in four parts: one part to his sister Florence Mary Eby, residing at 232 Bloor St., West Toronto, Ontario, Canada; another part to sister Winifred Mora Eby Skelton, wife of James Skelton, residing at 236 Church Street, West Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the third part to his previously named sisters for the benefit of a third sister, Eleanore Eby, whose whereabouts were unknown; and the final part to his stepdaughter, Frances Pendleton Adams. The estate amounted to $92, 234.70.
Eby's "Shangri-la" in Maine was in the town of Friendship, at Martin's Point, on a side road named Eby Street.
Hartford Courant Sunday, March 26, 1944, p. 11:
"Eby, Westport and Bougainville Artist, Depicts 'Bearded Babies'
BY SGT. Harold Powell
Marine Corps Combat Correspondent
Bougainville.–(AP.)–(Delayed)–
With Sketching pencil in hand, one of America's foremost artists, white-haired, Japan-born, Kerr Eby is now in the South Pacific covering his second war.
He was a sergeant in the AEF in 1917-18; now, 26 years later, as an accredited war correspondent for the Abbott Laboratories of Chicago, he was with the Marines at Tarawa and on Bougainville.
At Tarawa he fretted for three days before he was allowed to go ashore, humoring his 54 years. Even on the third day, 'snipers were all over the place. Once, while I talked to an officer, two bullets kicked up the turf beside my foot.'
Again, while sitting on what presumably was just a mound of earth, he heard a Marine sergeant suddenly yell, 'get the hell offa there!' 'When they say "get off" you "get," ' he laughed.
The Marines then advanced, tossing hand grenades into a half-buried pill box full of live Japs!
On Bougainville, Eby lived in a foxhole for three weeks, hastily fashioning rough drawings of jungle fighting scenes.
'These Marines are fighting guys, no matter where they are. I saw them for the first time in the last war as my division relieved the famous Fifth and Sixth regiments of Marines at Belleau Wood.'
'I call them "bearded babies." Tobacco-chewing, profane, trying to be beyond their years. Yet serious, game, deadly fighters. Many should be back in school.'
At home, Eby divides his time between his home in Westport, Conn., and his private 'Shangri-la' at Friendship, Maine, where he completed many etchings of New England snow scenes. In recent years, he is perhaps best known for these.
By what he calls 'an ironic twist of fate,' he was born in Japan in 1889 where his father was a Methodist minister. Two years later they moved to Canada, where he completed his high-school education.
During the last war he was naturalized in France while in the Army. But the papers were lost and he had to be renaturalized after his return to America.
He can't remember when he first wanted to become an artist. He has been an illustrator for such magazines as Harpers, Century, Scribners, and Everybody's magazine. He is a member of the National Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters, and his works have been shown in New York under the sponsorship of Fred Keppel Co., at the Grand Central, Harlow, and the Associated American Artists Galleries.
From World War I he brought home the thumbnail sketches which later appeared in his book, War, published in 1936–'a protest against the horror and waste of it.' "
Norwalk Hour (Norwalk, Conn.), Tuesday, November 19, 1949, p. 12:
"KERR EBY DIES; WAS NOTED ARTIST
Westporter Succumbs Suddenly In Hospital; One of America's Foremost Etchers
Kerr Eby, of North avenue, Westport, internationally famous etcher, and more recently war correspondent-artist with the U. S. Marines, died suddenly at 2:45 P. M. yesterday in Norwalk Hospital after a short illness. He was 57.
A sergeant in the Army Engineers Corps during World War I, Mr. Eby accompanied the Marines in the Pacific during the second world conflict, covering the Tarawa landing and other engagements. Ten years ago he published a book of pictures entitled "War."
Born in Japan
Considered one of America's foremost etchers, Mr. Eby's works at portrait, landscape, animals and architecture have been exhibited in galleries of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and other large American cities. He had been an illustrator for such magazines as Harpers, Century, Scribners and Everybody's Magazine.
He was a member of the National Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters.
Born in Japan in 1889 of Canadian parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Charles S. Eby, he moved with his family to Canada at an early age. He came to the United States in 1907.
Westport Resident 25 Years
Mr. Eby moved to Westport about 25 years ago and had divided his time between his home there and his private "Shangrila" at Friendship, Maine, where he completed many etchings of New England snow scenes.
He is survived by his widow, Phyllis Brevoort Barretto, whom he married in 1935. His first wife, the former Frances Shelton, died in 1932.
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at Christ and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Westport, with the Rev. Frederic L. C. Lorentzen, rector, officiating. Interment will be at the convenience of the family."
Greenwich Time (Greenwich, Conn.), Tuesday, November 19, 1946, p. 2, col. 1:
"Kerr Eby, Noted Etcher, Dies At 57
Kerr Eby, of Westport, noted etcher and former husband of the late Frances Sheldon Eby, formerly of Greenwich, died yesterday in Norwalk Hospital after a brief illness. He was 57 years old.
He married Frances Sheldon, daughter of George Sheldon, formerly of Greenwich, in 1920. She died in 1932, and he married again three years later.
He specialized in portraying the horror of war in his etchings, but landed on Tarawa with the Marines in the recent conflict as an artist war correspondent and served in the Army in World War I. He lived in Westport for more than 25 years."
Eby's Will recorded in the Town of Westport in Manuscript Volume 51, page 349 left $1,000 to Leonora Sisco and the balance to his wife, Phyllis Brevoort Eby. In the event that his wife did not survive him, he left his estate in four parts: one part to his sister Florence Mary Eby, residing at 232 Bloor St., West Toronto, Ontario, Canada; another part to sister Winifred Mora Eby Skelton, wife of James Skelton, residing at 236 Church Street, West Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the third part to his previously named sisters for the benefit of a third sister, Eleanore Eby, whose whereabouts were unknown; and the final part to his stepdaughter, Frances Pendleton Adams. The estate amounted to $92, 234.70.
Eby's "Shangri-la" in Maine was in the town of Friendship, at Martin's Point, on a side road named Eby Street.
Born Harold Kerr Eby, Eby went by his middle name throughout most of his adult life.
Hartford Courant Sunday, March 26, 1944, p. 11:
"Eby, Westport and Bougainville Artist, Depicts 'Bearded Babies'
BY SGT. Harold Powell
Marine Corps Combat Correspondent
Bougainville.–(AP.)–(Delayed)–
With Sketching pencil in hand, one of America's foremost artists, white-haired, Japan-born, Kerr Eby is now in the South Pacific covering his second war.
He was a sergeant in the AEF in 1917-18; now, 26 years later, as an accredited war correspondent for the Abbott Laboratories of Chicago, he was with the Marines at Tarawa and on Bougainville.
At Tarawa he fretted for three days before he was allowed to go ashore, humoring his 54 years. Even on the third day, 'snipers were all over the place. Once, while I talked to an officer, two bullets kicked up the turf beside my foot.'
Again, while sitting on what presumably was just a mound of earth, he heard a Marine sergeant suddenly yell, 'get the hell offa there!' 'When they say "get off" you "get," ' he laughed.
The Marines then advanced, tossing hand grenades into a half-buried pill box full of live Japs!
On Bougainville, Eby lived in a foxhole for three weeks, hastily fashioning rough drawings of jungle fighting scenes.
'These Marines are fighting guys, no matter where they are. I saw them for the first time in the last war as my division relieved the famous Fifth and Sixth regiments of Marines at Belleau Wood.'
'I call them "bearded babies." Tobacco-chewing, profane, trying to be beyond their years. Yet serious, game, deadly fighters. Many should be back in school.'
At home, Eby divides his time between his home in Westport, Conn., and his private 'Shangri-la' at Friendship, Maine, where he completed many etchings of New England snow scenes. In recent years, he is perhaps best known for these.
By what he calls 'an ironic twist of fate,' he was born in Japan in 1889 where his father was a Methodist minister. Two years later they moved to Canada, where he completed his high-school education.
During the last war he was naturalized in France while in the Army. But the papers were lost and he had to be renaturalized after his return to America.
He can't remember when he first wanted to become an artist. He has been an illustrator for such magazines as Harpers, Century, Scribners, and Everybody's magazine. He is a member of the National Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters, and his works have been shown in New York under the sponsorship of Fred Keppel Co., at the Grand Central, Harlow, and the Associated American Artists Galleries.
From World War I he brought home the thumbnail sketches which later appeared in his book, War, published in 1936–'a protest against the horror and waste of it.' "
Norwalk Hour (Norwalk, Conn.), Tuesday, November 19, 1949, p. 12:
"KERR EBY DIES; WAS NOTED ARTIST
Westporter Succumbs Suddenly In Hospital; One of America's Foremost Etchers
Kerr Eby, of North avenue, Westport, internationally famous etcher, and more recently war correspondent-artist with the U. S. Marines, died suddenly at 2:45 P. M. yesterday in Norwalk Hospital after a short illness. He was 57.
A sergeant in the Army Engineers Corps during World War I, Mr. Eby accompanied the Marines in the Pacific during the second world conflict, covering the Tarawa landing and other engagements. Ten years ago he published a book of pictures entitled "War."
Born in Japan
Considered one of America's foremost etchers, Mr. Eby's works at portrait, landscape, animals and architecture have been exhibited in galleries of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and other large American cities. He had been an illustrator for such magazines as Harpers, Century, Scribners and Everybody's Magazine.
He was a member of the National Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters.
Born in Japan in 1889 of Canadian parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Charles S. Eby, he moved with his family to Canada at an early age. He came to the United States in 1907.
Westport Resident 25 Years
Mr. Eby moved to Westport about 25 years ago and had divided his time between his home there and his private "Shangrila" at Friendship, Maine, where he completed many etchings of New England snow scenes.
He is survived by his widow, Phyllis Brevoort Barretto, whom he married in 1935. His first wife, the former Frances Shelton, died in 1932.
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at Christ and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Westport, with the Rev. Frederic L. C. Lorentzen, rector, officiating. Interment will be at the convenience of the family."
Greenwich Time (Greenwich, Conn.), Tuesday, November 19, 1946, p. 2, col. 1:
"Kerr Eby, Noted Etcher, Dies At 57
Kerr Eby, of Westport, noted etcher and former husband of the late Frances Sheldon Eby, formerly of Greenwich, died yesterday in Norwalk Hospital after a brief illness. He was 57 years old.
He married Frances Sheldon, daughter of George Sheldon, formerly of Greenwich, in 1920. She died in 1932, and he married again three years later.
He specialized in portraying the horror of war in his etchings, but landed on Tarawa with the Marines in the recent conflict as an artist war correspondent and served in the Army in World War I. He lived in Westport for more than 25 years."
Eby's Will recorded in the Town of Westport in Manuscript Volume 51, page 349 left $1,000 to Leonora Sisco and the balance to his wife, Phyllis Brevoort Eby. In the event that his wife did not survive him, he left his estate in four parts: one part to his sister Florence Mary Eby, residing at 232 Bloor St., West Toronto, Ontario, Canada; another part to sister Winifred Mora Eby Skelton, wife of James Skelton, residing at 236 Church Street, West Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the third part to his previously named sisters for the benefit of a third sister, Eleanore Eby, whose whereabouts were unknown; and the final part to his stepdaughter, Frances Pendleton Adams. The estate amounted to $92, 234.70.
Eby's "Shangri-la" in Maine was in the town of Friendship, at Martin's Point, on a side road named Eby Street.
Hartford Courant Sunday, March 26, 1944, p. 11:
"Eby, Westport and Bougainville Artist, Depicts 'Bearded Babies'
BY SGT. Harold Powell
Marine Corps Combat Correspondent
Bougainville.–(AP.)–(Delayed)–
With Sketching pencil in hand, one of America's foremost artists, white-haired, Japan-born, Kerr Eby is now in the South Pacific covering his second war.
He was a sergeant in the AEF in 1917-18; now, 26 years later, as an accredited war correspondent for the Abbott Laboratories of Chicago, he was with the Marines at Tarawa and on Bougainville.
At Tarawa he fretted for three days before he was allowed to go ashore, humoring his 54 years. Even on the third day, 'snipers were all over the place. Once, while I talked to an officer, two bullets kicked up the turf beside my foot.'
Again, while sitting on what presumably was just a mound of earth, he heard a Marine sergeant suddenly yell, 'get the hell offa there!' 'When they say "get off" you "get," ' he laughed.
The Marines then advanced, tossing hand grenades into a half-buried pill box full of live Japs!
On Bougainville, Eby lived in a foxhole for three weeks, hastily fashioning rough drawings of jungle fighting scenes.
'These Marines are fighting guys, no matter where they are. I saw them for the first time in the last war as my division relieved the famous Fifth and Sixth regiments of Marines at Belleau Wood.'
'I call them "bearded babies." Tobacco-chewing, profane, trying to be beyond their years. Yet serious, game, deadly fighters. Many should be back in school.'
At home, Eby divides his time between his home in Westport, Conn., and his private 'Shangri-la' at Friendship, Maine, where he completed many etchings of New England snow scenes. In recent years, he is perhaps best known for these.
By what he calls 'an ironic twist of fate,' he was born in Japan in 1889 where his father was a Methodist minister. Two years later they moved to Canada, where he completed his high-school education.
During the last war he was naturalized in France while in the Army. But the papers were lost and he had to be renaturalized after his return to America.
He can't remember when he first wanted to become an artist. He has been an illustrator for such magazines as Harpers, Century, Scribners, and Everybody's magazine. He is a member of the National Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters, and his works have been shown in New York under the sponsorship of Fred Keppel Co., at the Grand Central, Harlow, and the Associated American Artists Galleries.
From World War I he brought home the thumbnail sketches which later appeared in his book, War, published in 1936–'a protest against the horror and waste of it.' "
Norwalk Hour (Norwalk, Conn.), Tuesday, November 19, 1949, p. 12:
"KERR EBY DIES; WAS NOTED ARTIST
Westporter Succumbs Suddenly In Hospital; One of America's Foremost Etchers
Kerr Eby, of North avenue, Westport, internationally famous etcher, and more recently war correspondent-artist with the U. S. Marines, died suddenly at 2:45 P. M. yesterday in Norwalk Hospital after a short illness. He was 57.
A sergeant in the Army Engineers Corps during World War I, Mr. Eby accompanied the Marines in the Pacific during the second world conflict, covering the Tarawa landing and other engagements. Ten years ago he published a book of pictures entitled "War."
Born in Japan
Considered one of America's foremost etchers, Mr. Eby's works at portrait, landscape, animals and architecture have been exhibited in galleries of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and other large American cities. He had been an illustrator for such magazines as Harpers, Century, Scribners and Everybody's Magazine.
He was a member of the National Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters.
Born in Japan in 1889 of Canadian parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Charles S. Eby, he moved with his family to Canada at an early age. He came to the United States in 1907.
Westport Resident 25 Years
Mr. Eby moved to Westport about 25 years ago and had divided his time between his home there and his private "Shangrila" at Friendship, Maine, where he completed many etchings of New England snow scenes.
He is survived by his widow, Phyllis Brevoort Barretto, whom he married in 1935. His first wife, the former Frances Shelton, died in 1932.
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at Christ and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Westport, with the Rev. Frederic L. C. Lorentzen, rector, officiating. Interment will be at the convenience of the family."
Greenwich Time (Greenwich, Conn.), Tuesday, November 19, 1946, p. 2, col. 1:
"Kerr Eby, Noted Etcher, Dies At 57
Kerr Eby, of Westport, noted etcher and former husband of the late Frances Sheldon Eby, formerly of Greenwich, died yesterday in Norwalk Hospital after a brief illness. He was 57 years old.
He married Frances Sheldon, daughter of George Sheldon, formerly of Greenwich, in 1920. She died in 1932, and he married again three years later.
He specialized in portraying the horror of war in his etchings, but landed on Tarawa with the Marines in the recent conflict as an artist war correspondent and served in the Army in World War I. He lived in Westport for more than 25 years."
Eby's Will recorded in the Town of Westport in Manuscript Volume 51, page 349 left $1,000 to Leonora Sisco and the balance to his wife, Phyllis Brevoort Eby. In the event that his wife did not survive him, he left his estate in four parts: one part to his sister Florence Mary Eby, residing at 232 Bloor St., West Toronto, Ontario, Canada; another part to sister Winifred Mora Eby Skelton, wife of James Skelton, residing at 236 Church Street, West Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the third part to his previously named sisters for the benefit of a third sister, Eleanore Eby, whose whereabouts were unknown; and the final part to his stepdaughter, Frances Pendleton Adams. The estate amounted to $92, 234.70.
Eby's "Shangri-la" in Maine was in the town of Friendship, at Martin's Point, on a side road named Eby Street.
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