RAY KINSMAN-WATERS

This highly obscure Ohio painter, born in Columbus, Ohio on 21 July 1887, deserves recognition as a regional post-impressionist.  He was obviously influenced by his teacher, Alice Schille, whose uniform strokes of juxtaposed pure colors and joyously bright palette appear in his works, such as My Flower Garden, Grandview, from 1916 (Private collection). 

Kinsman-Waters died in his hometown of Columbus on January 2, 1962.

Source:
Keny, James M. and Nannette V. Maciejunes, Triumph of Color and Light: Ohio Impressionists. Columbus, OH: Columbus Museum of Art, 1994, pp. 29, 68, 117.

Submitted by Michael Preston Worley, Ph.D.