Harry Hoffman (painter)

Harry Leslie Hoffman (1871–1964) was an American Impressionist painter best known for his brightly colored paintings of underwater marine life.

[1] In the early 1920s, he served as staff artist to the naturalist William Beebe on expeditions to the Galapagos Islands (1923),[4] British Guiana, and Bermuda.

[2] Early in his career, Hoffman focused on Impressionist landscapes, plein air figure studies, street scenes, and still lifes.

His style was most strongly influenced by the work of fellow Old Lyme painter Willard Metcalf, though his color palette was brighter and his brushwork looser.

[2] By the mid-1920s, he had developed a reputation for vividly colored underwater studies of fish and other marine life.