Arthur Watkins Crisp (26 April 1881, Hamilton, Ontario – 28 June 1974, Biddeford Pool, Maine) was a Canadian painter, muralist, and designer.
[1][2] By 1898, Crisp was attending the Hamilton Art School, studying with the artist and teacher John Sloan Gordon.
He left Hamilton for New York City in the summer of 1900 to attend the Art Students League and worked there three years, valuing especially Frank DuMond as a teacher.
[3] He was commissioned to paint British and Canadian recruiting on the Boston Common in 1918 for the Canadian War Memorials and painted decorations for the Reading Room of the new House of Commons in Ottawa (1920-1923), for the Imperial Bank of Commerce, King St, Toronto (1930),[4] for the Capitol Building, Columbus, Ohio (1951) and for the State Educational Building, Albany, NY (1959).
[2] He retired to Biddeford, Maine, in 1956 and gave a large collection of his work to the Art Gallery of Hamilton in 1963,[2] which celebrated the occasion with a major retrospective exhibition for Arthur Crisp and his wife.