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Henry
Varnum Poor (American 1887-1970)
After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford in 1910, where
he majored in art, Henry Varnum Poor traveled to London where
he studied with the distinguished British painter, Walter
Sickert, at the Slade School.
Poor
returned to California to teach at Stanford and became one
of the leading modernist painters on the West Coast, but,
in 1919, he headed back east and settled in New City, New
York, a small art colony in New York’s Hudson River Valley.
There, he designed not only his own home, but also the homes
of several other prominent local residents, among them playwright
Maxwell Anderson, actor Burgess Meredith, actor-director John
Houseman and cartoonist Milton Caniff. He founded and devoted
much time and effort towards the Skowhegan (Maine) School
of Painting and Sculpture.
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