Frank Warren Marshall (1866-1930). "Fall Landscape". Unsigned attribution. Watercolor on paper. Dimensions: 7" x 9 3/4". Framed under glass: 13" x 16". Frank Marshall was an artist who bridged two centuries and two art worlds that of a fine arts painter and that of a newspaper illustrator in the tradition of American artist John Sloan. Frank Marshall was a landscape painter, silversmith and goldsmith. He was active in Providence, Rhode Island, Cape Ann, and Gloucester, Massachusetts; as well as Boothbay Harbor, Maine where he spent his summers. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 1880s, and in Paris in 1885 at the Academy Julian. In Providence, he was a member of the Providence Art Club and the Providence Water Color Club, and in Boothbay Harbor, he was one of the founders of the Commonwealth Colony of Art.Marshall was an illustrator for the "Providence Journal" from 1897 to 1923 and for 20 years, taught at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2017, the Providence Journal talked of the importance of illustrators before photography for newspapers. “In the 19th century, before it became practical to send photographers out to cover stories and produce images on deadline, the Journal sent artists. During the blizzard of 1898, Journal artist Frank Marshall was sent out to capture the scene on Ship Street in downtown Providence to produce a drawing that was used on page one.” Equally accomplished as a painter, his works are in the Providence Art Club and RISD Museum of Art. He exhibited with the Boston Art Club and the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts.

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13 x 16 in

2 lb