Attributed to Paul R. Scumann, no coa, private collection, medium: oil, measurements: 25"HX29"W framed, mint condition, frame has wear and tear Biography: Paul Richard Schumann was a Texas impressionist seascape painter who has been called the Gulf Coast counterpart of Winslow Homer. Schumann started out as a portrait and landscape painter but became best known for his later seascapes and harbor scenes.Writers have speculated that his preference for marine subjects was influenced by a childhood experience of falling into the mill race at his father's sawmill or by his cross-ocean journey at the age of three. One critic wrote that he "catches with unfailing dexterity the kinship of the sea with the sky and the land–the storm clouds, the pouty, sulky thunderheads, or the washed sky after an April shower."Schumann built model ships for use as models for his seascapes, which sometimes featured boats and ships ranging from fishing vessels to three-masted schooners.During the 1910s, Schumann traveled extensively around the United States, painting in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, California, Illinois, and along the southeastern Atlantic Coast. His favorite site remained the Texas Gulf Coast, however, for its tropical colors and changeable skyscapes, and he became known as a leading interpreter of "typical Texas skies, as well as the deeper blues of the South Atlantic, and the quiet waters of the Pacific Coast."