Henry Doane

Henry Waltermar Doane (1905, Cambridge, Massachusetts – 1999, Oakland, California) was an American landscape painter and commercial artist, known for his mining themed paintings.

He studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, and the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco, and he had private lessons with Charles Horton, Otis Sheppard, and John Gerrity.

[1] He worked for over 40 years in display advertising, retiring in 1969, but during this time, he did fine-art painting.

He was President of the Society of Western Artists and taught watercolor painting, which he began exhibiting in the 1940s.

From 1952 to 1979, he led watercolor workshops in Virginia City, Nevada, and for many years served as juror for art shows.