Henry Varnum Poor (designer)

Henry Varnum Poor (September 30, 1887 – December 8, 1970) was an American architect, painter, sculptor, muralist, and potter.

He was born in Chapman, Kansas on September 30, 1887,[1] to parents Alfred James Poor and Josephine Melinda Graham.

[1] He studied painting at the Slade School in London and under painter Walter Sickert, then attended the Académie Julian in Paris.

From July 1919 to October 1923 Poor was married to a former student from Stanford (and a later known textile designer), Marion Dorn.

[4] Self-taught as an architect, Poor designed the "Crow House" on South Mountain Road in New City, New York for himself, and designed houses or home renovations for Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, John Houseman, Burgess Meredith and Maxwell Anderson.