Henry Strater
{{Short description|American painter and illustrator (1896–1987)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Henry Strater
| other_names = Mike Strater
| birth_date = January 21, 1896
| birth_place = Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1987|12|21|1896|01|21}}
| death_place = Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.
| education = Princeton University,
Art Students League of New York,
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Académie de la Grande Chaumière
| occupation = Painter, illustrator
}}
File:Ernest Hemingway and Henry Strater, Bahamas, 1935.jpg
Henry "Mike" Strater (January 21, 1896 – December 21, 1987) was an American painter and illustrator. He was a friend of Ernest Hemingway and other figures of the Lost Generation.{{Cite news |date=December 24, 1987 |title=Obituaries: Henry Strater, 91; Artist at Center of Lost Generation |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-12-24-mn-30849-story.html}} He was best known for his portraiture, figurative, and landscape drawings and paintings.{{Cite web |last= |date=2018-06-25 |title=Henry Strater's Portrait of Ernest Hemingway |url=https://npg.si.edu/blog/henry-strater%E2%80%99s-portrait-ernest-hemingway |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian |language=en}} Strater founded the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Ogunquit, Maine which hosted its first exhibition in 1953.{{Cite web |last=Culver |first=Michael |date=November 26, 2010 |title=Ogunquit Museum of American Art's Charles H. Woodbury and His Students |url=https://www.tfaoi.org/newsmu/nmus104a.htm |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc. (tfaoi.org)}}{{Cite web |last1=Bair |first1=Diane |last2=Wright |first2=Pamela |date=May 5, 2013 |title=Ogunquit Museum of American Art turns 60 |url=https://www.boston.com/culture/new-england-travel/2013/05/05/ogunquit-museum-of-american-art-turns-60/ |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=Boston.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=May 27, 2022 |title=Ogunquit Museum of American Art announces adopt a school program |url=https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/05/27/bdn-maine/ogunquit-museum-of-american-art-announces-adopt-a-school-program/ |website=Bangor Daily News}}
Early life and education
Henry Strater was born on January 21, 1896, in Louisville, Kentucky. He later attended Princeton University, during which he befriended F. Scott Fitzgerald. Strater was Fitzgerald's inspiration for the character "Burne Halliday" from the novel This Side of Paradise (1920).
During 1917 and World War I, Strater enlisted in the French Red Cross and drove ambulances for the Allies.{{Cite book |last1=Voss |first1=Frederick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gaM6XdiZKCYC |title=Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time |last2=Reynolds |first2=Michael |last3=Reynolds |first3=Michael S. |last4=Institution) |first4=National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian |last5=D.C.) |first5=National portrait gallery (Washington |date=1999-01-01 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-07926-5 |pages=14–15 |language=en}} In 1919 he returned to the United States to studied at the Art Students League of New York and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.{{Cite book |last=Rainey |first=Lawrence S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ajVbyQLNRLwC |title=Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture: Text, History, and the Malatesta Cantos |date=1991-12-15 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-70316-9 |pages=327 |language=en}} He also took some classes at Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.
In the 1920s, Strater studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in the Montparnasse district of Paris, under Edouard Vuillard. While in Paris, Strater met Hemingway in a bar, where they had a brawl. Later they became friends and Strater painted two portraits of Hemingway in late 1922 while still in Paris.{{Cite book |last=Reynolds |first=Michael S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j-PKDV11rN8C |title=Hemingway: The Paris Years |date=1989 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0-393-31879-1 |language=en}}
Career
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Ezra Pound had Strater illustrate part of the book, The Cantos.
His friendship with Hemingway ended in 1935, over a Time magazine photo of Marlin fishing that incorrectly credited Hemingway with catching Strater's oversized fish.{{Cite web |date=September 10, 2020 |title=Nudes and a Marlin |url=http://chrysler.org/nudes-and-a-marlin/ |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=Chrysler Museum of Art |language=en}} Hemingway did not correct the issue. {{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}
In either 1952 or 1953, Strater founded the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Ogunquit, Maine.
Death and legacy
He died at the age of 91 on December 21, 1987, in Palm Beach. He is buried at the First Parish Cemetery in York, Maine. {{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}
Strater's work can be found in museums including the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums,{{Cite web |last= |title=Spanish Gypsy Child |url=https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/308652 |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=Harvard Art Museums |language=en}} the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts,{{Cite web |title=Home from School |url=https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/home-school-62878 |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=dia.org |language=en}} and the Princeton University Art Museum.{{Cite web |title=Flowers against the Sea |url=https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/29566 |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=artmuseum.princeton.edu |language=en}}
References
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External links
- {{Find a Grave|id=120648774}}, has photos
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Category:American male painters
Category:Artists from Louisville, Kentucky
Category:Princeton University alumni
Category:Art Students League of New York alumni
Category:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni
Category:People from Palm Beach, Florida