| Stow Wengenroth | ||
| Birth Date: 1906 |
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| Death Date: 1978 Artist Gallery |
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| Stow Wengenroth was born in New York City in 1906. Wengenroth is more noted for his lithography than watercolors. Andrew Wyeth once called him “the greatest black and white artist in America.”
Wengenroth studied at the Art Students League with George Bridgman, Wayman Adams and John Carlson. For about 40 years, he summered in Cape Ann and moved there permanently in 1974. His subjects often centered on New England themes.
In the late years of Wengenroth’s life, his health began failing and lithography became too physical for him so he turned to watercolors. His devoted wife, Edith Flack Adkley Wengenroth, had begged her husband for years to try painting in the watercolor medium and he never did in her lifetime.
Many beyond Cape Ann did not realize that Wengenroth had worked in the watercolor medium, but his work was often sought after by his fellow artists on Cape Ann.
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