Nice Ranulph Bye watercolor paper. 21 x 17 inches. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1916 - 2003. Ranulph Bye was born in 1916 in Princeton, NJ. He attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art*, now Philadelphia College of Art, and the Art Students League* in New York. His paintings have received national recognition, and he has exhibited in the National Academy of Design*, the American Watercolor Society*, and Allied Artists*.His work is in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Moore College of Art, Temple University School of Pharmacy; Munson-Williams- Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; the Reading Museum; the Smithsonian Institution and the William Penn Memorial Museum in Harrisburg. Mr. Bye's work has appeared in American Heritage and American Artist.He was a member of the Philadelphia Water Color Club, the American Watercolor Society*, Allied Artists of America and the National Academy of Design* (Academician). Also the Salmagundi Club* of New York.His paintings earned him many prizes. Painting Buildings in Watercolor was published by North Light Books in 1994. Other books are Ranulph Bye's Bucks County, published in 1989 and Victorian Sketchbook, which is a pictorial journey of Victorian architecture around the country published in 1980. His newest book is Ranulph Bye's Collection of Old Firehouses.He retired from Moore College of Art where he taught for thirty years. To devote his time to painting in and around his native Bucks County, Pennsylvania home.

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