Arthur Crisp

Arthur Watkins Crisp (26 April 1881, Hamilton, Ontario – 28 June 1974, Biddeford Pool, Maine) was a Canadian painter, muralist, and designer.

Career By 1898, Crisp was attending the Hamilton Art School, studying with the artist and teacher John Sloan Gordon. He remained there for three years. During this time, he also worked as an engraver at the Hamilton Herald.

He left Hamilton for New York City in the summer of 1900 to attend the Art Students League and worked there three years, valuing especially Frank DuMond as a teacher. for the Capitol Building, Columbus, Ohio (1951) and for the State Educational Building, Albany, New York (1959). the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the National Portrait Gallery, USA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Crisp was a member of the New York Architectural League (1911), and the National Society of Mural Painters (1914). He was a founder-member of the Allied Artists of America (1914), and also belonged to the American Water Color Society and the New York Water Color Club (1915). He was elected a full academician of the National Academy of Design (1937) as well as exhibiting widely. Arthur Crisp died in Maine in 1974, aged 93.

The Arthur Crisp Papers (1952–1963) are in the Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries, Syracuse, NY (13244-2010).