George C. Thomas II (1934-2020) Watercolor on Paper View of Boatyard “By the Way Nantucket”, signed lower right George C. Thomas II ’52, matted and framed

George C. Thomas a long-time Artist Association of Nantucket artist member and board Director Emeritus, he sold his first painting at age 14 at the 1948 Nantucket Sidewalk Art Show. His last major exhibition was an AAN retrospective of his career, Sixty Years Ashore. He focused on watercolor from 1950-1958, lithography and etching from 1960-1964, photography from 1962-1985, and pastels from 1985-2008. His teaching experience also exhibited eclectic tendencies, having taught art to youth beside Elizabeth Saltonstall at Milton Academy, then printmaking at the Worcester Museum School, and then as a professor of photography at MIT – all during the 1960s.