Biography from Mason County Museum:
| Born in Dublin, Ireland, Craig achieved notoriety as a watercolorist in his native country before moving to New York in 1863. There he was one of the founding members of the American Watercolor Society. The artist traveled throughout upstate New York painting landscape views and took a trip to Kentucky and Ohio in 1865. Craig died tragically while in his mid-forties, drowning in Lake George, New York.
From "THE KENTUCKY PAINTER: from the Frontier Era to the Great War"
Arthur F. Jones and Bruce Weber, University of Kentucky Art Museum, 1981 |
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