About the Artist

DONALD R. THOMPSON, a painter of the New England scene, was well known for his water-colors and excelled in other mediums as well. He was a resident of Branford, Connecticut and died in 1976.

 A popular exhibitor along the shoreline, his art was shown at local, regional and national exhibits, as well as being reproduced by the New York Life Insurance Company’s calendar, American Artist Group Cards, the catalog of the Old Guilford Forge, and on six covers and center spreads of Yankee Magazine.

 Thompson graduated from Quinnipiac College, New Haven, CT., and was Treasurer of the Snow-Nabstedt Gear Corporation. His interest in art developed while still in school and he was encouraged to pursue his talent by teachers at Creative Arts Workshop, courses with the artist Barse Miller of New York and artist Bertram George Bruestle of Lyme, CT.

 Thompson was past President of the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, past president of the Connecticut Watercolor Society and a member of the Lyme Art Association, the Essex Art Association, the Guilford Art League, the New Haven Brush and Palette Club, the Meriden Arts and Crafts Association, Clinton Art League and the Branford Art League. He exhibited many times in the above art associations as well as the American Watercolor Society, Silvermine and the Branford library.

Thompson was for many years the art instructor at Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, CT. He was also an instructor of elementary and advanced watercolor at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven and taught painting and sketching for many years at the Branford Community House.

 Included in this collection of his work are many paintings of New England shoreline, rural and tidewater areas, the type of paintings for which Donald Thompson was best known.