Biografie von Edward A. PAGE (1850-1928)

Birth place: Groveland, MA

Death place: Swampscott, MA

Addresses: Lynn & Swampscott, MA

Profession: Marine painter

Studied: George Morse in Boston.

Exhibited: Lynn GAR Exh., 1887; Boston AC, 1888-96, 1899, 1901, 1907-09; Providence AC; Worcester AM; Salamagundi Club; Lynn AC, 1909-28; Springfield Muf. FA.

Comments: Worked in the leather business until he was thirty-five, while studying art and sharing a studio with Frederick Porter Vinton. He was also a friend of Thomas Robinson and J. Foxcroft Cole. In 1883, Page came to Lynn and became one of the group of local artists which included Chas. E.L. Green, Nathaniel Berry, Thomas C. Oliver, Charles Alley, Theodore N. Phillips and Charles H. Goodridge. In 1900, Page painted also with his good friend Charles H. Woodbury at Ogunquit, ME. Teaching: Lynn Evening Sch. Art, 1886-on.

Sources: WW08; exh. cat., Rediscovered Artists of Essex County, (1865-1915) (Salem, Mass: Essex Institute, 1971); D. Roger Howlett, The Lynn Beach Painters (Lynn Hist. Soc., 1998); add'l info. courtesy Selma Koss Holtz, Waban, MA.