WILLIAM JAMES PAINTINGS FOR SALE & BIOGRAPHY
WILLIAM JAMES
American, 1882–1961
BIOGRAPHY
The artist was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and studied at Harvard (A.B.), at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School with Benson and Tarbell, and from 1905-06 at the Académie Julien in Paris. His works were exhibited widely at venues such as the Pennsylvania Academy, Newport Art Association, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, winning many awards.
The artist was the son of the eminent philosopher William James and the nephew of the writer Henry James, and his portrait of the writer is in the collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Other works are in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges.