Description:

Henry "Henno" Michael O'Connor (American, 1891-1975). Ashcan school watercolor on artist's paper depicting a stirring WWII battle scene showing the horrors of war and the individual's heroic reckoning with certain death and the ‘never-back-down' mentality of American spirit, ca 1940s.

Lot Essay:
Henry Michael O'Connor was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on March 5, 1891. Early references allude to O'Connor's skill as a boxer, a favorite sport and source of revenue for his education. He studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School under teachers such as Joseph Pennell, Joseph de Camp, and Frank Benson. O'Connor also assisted Abbot Thayer in Dublin, New Hampshire for two years who then encouraged the young artist to go abroad.

Early in his career, O'Connor seems to have been influenced by the Ashcan School of Realists in New York, although he remained active in Boston. The working people and sites of Salem Street in Boston's North End was a favorite early subject of which he made mostly drawings. Urban monuments and architecture became more frequent subjects in subsequent works.

Two lithographs dated 1918 provide the first evidence of O'Connor's activity in New York, although the main body of his New York work begins in the 1920s. Shortly after the First World War ended, O'Connor opened a studio in the city. Much of O'Connor's graphic work reflects his frequent travels and in Europe, he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and practiced etching at the Kensington School in London.

As shown in countless prints and drawings, O'Connor was also an avid marine enthusiast. He shared this interest with friend and author Jim Connolly and provided illustrations for two of his volumes. His affiliation with the naval community as a petty officer earned him a portrait painting commission for six naval officers in NACAL. Other O'Connor sitters include Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor Charles Hurley, Dr. William O'Hanlon (reportedly located at the Margaret Hague Hospital in Jersey City, New Jersey) the Honorable Joseph Tallent, and James Roosevelt.

  • Dimensions: Sight; height: 23 in x width: 17 1/2 in. Framed; height: 32 1/4 in x width: 26 1/4 in.
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