W. Cortland Butterfield
$600
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W. Cortland Butterfield
American (1904–1977)
About the artist:
Cortland Butterfield is perhaps best known as a figurative painter, though he also painted still lifes, florals, and marine subjects.
He was born in Newark, New Jersey, and studied at Cooper-Union Art School, the Art Students League, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He was a co-founder of the American Opera Repertory Company, a member of the Society of Independent Artists, and a teacher at the Art Students League, the Newark Academy of Arts and the Montclair School of Fine Art. Butterfield exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Montclair Art Museum, and galleries in New York and New Hope, Pennsylvania. He died in New Hope in 1977.
His works are in the collections of the National Academy, the New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
W. Cortland Butterfield
American (1904–1977)
(1 works)
About the artist:
Cortland Butterfield is perhaps best known as a figurative painter, though he also painted still lifes, florals, and marine subjects. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, and studied at Cooper-Union Art School, the Art Students League, and the Ecole