William Starkweather

William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather (1879 - 1969) was a painter, teacher, and writer, known for impressionist landscape paintings and book illustrations.

Starkweather spent three years with the Spanish master before embarking on a three-year independent study in Italy,[3] then returning to New York as a practicing artist.

Starkweather lectured and published extensively on Spanish art and his teacher’s work, and became an assistant curator at the Hispanic Society.

[5] Continuing to paint throughout his time with the Hispanic Society, Starkweather was able to mount his first solo exhibition in 1914 at the Folsom Galleries in New York.

By 1921, Starkweather had switched from oil painting to watercolor, a transition that garnered critical acclaim and afforded him three solo exhibitions in New York’s Fifteen Gallery.

Portrait of William E. B. Starkweather by Joaquín Sorolla
Late Afternoon Light , 1915, by William Starkweather, from the permanent collection of the Hickory Museum of Art .