Henry Stephens Eddy (1875-1944)
Henry Stephens Eddy was a prominent member of the Art Colony from its inception until his death in his Nantucket home in 1944. He created vibrant canvases of Nantucket’s rambling lanes and alleys and light splashed waterfront views, using a bright palette and generous swaths of paint applied with the palette knife, mixed with choppy, expressive brushwork capturing light at a specific time of day. A review of the Easy Street Gallery’s first exhibition in the Inquirer and Mirror signaled out Eddy for praise: “One feels in [his canvas] the beauty and quietude of the early morning.” A reviewer of the 1923 Candle House Studio show writes: “The colorful charm of…Monday mornings has been finely caught by Henry S. Eddy.”
Eddy discovered Nantucket via the Provincetown Art Colony, which he visited beginning in 1920 together with fellow members of the Art Students League in New York City. Hailing from Rahway and, later, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, Eddy received formal art training at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and subsequently at the Art Students League under an impressive array of teachers including John Twachtman and Stephen A. Douglas Volk. Through a Montclair acquaintance, Eddy and his wife traveled to Nantucket in the summer of 1922 to rent one of Florence Lang’s waterfront studios.
On Nantucket, he lived in the heart of the Art Colony in a series of studios including Barnsite on lower Main Street, the Forge studio (Main Street), and ultimately purchasing 119 Main Street as his summer home. Eddy was a member of the Pacific Club, a natural affinity for a painter drawn to marine scenes who also happened to be the great-grandson of a New Bedford captain of the whaleship Ann and Mary. Eddy was honored after his death by his inclusion among the five artists “of national importance” (along with Anne Ramsdell Congdon, Edgar Jenney, Emerson Tuttle, and Eastman Johnson) in the 1946 Kenneth Taylor Galleries retrospective. ~ The Nantucket Art Colony 1920-45, Nantucket Historical Association Digital Exhibition
- Joan Albaugh
- Ethel Anderson
- William D. Appleton
- Clifford Warren Ashley
- John Austin
- Milton Avery
- Solon Francis Montecello Badger
- James Francis Barker
- Doris & Richard Beer
- Eugene Louis Boudin
- Alfred Thompson Bricher
- Albert Bross
- Robert Bushong
- Polly Bushong
- James Edward Buttersworth
- Ralph Eugene Cahoon
- Martha Cahoon
- Nikita Carpenko
- Lincoln J. Ceely
- Frederick S Chadwick
- Rodney Charman
- Frank Swift Chase
- Leander M Churbuck
- Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin
- Anne Ramsdell Congdon
- Colin Campbell Cooper
- Laura Cooper
- Mellie Cooper
- Frank Corso
- James Cromartie
- Roy Cross
- Vu Cao Dam
- William R. Davis
- Gene Davis
- Molly Dee
- Donald Demers
- John Devaney
- William Duffy
- Lawrence Charmichael Earle
- Henry Stephens Eddy
- Alan J. Eddy
- Virginia Bargar Evans
- José Fabri-Canti
- John Falato
- George Gardner Fish
- Annie Barker Folger
- James Walter Folger
- Stephen Gibbs
- André Gisson
- Sybil Goldsmith
- Emile Albert Gruppe
- Marilyn Guerinot
- Mauritz Frederik Hendrick de Haas
- Davis Hall
- Kerry Hallam
- James Harrington
- James Hathaway
- Lowell Herrero
- Jason Emerson Herron
- Philip Hicken
- George Frank Higgins
- G.S. Hill
- Megan Hinton
- Emily Hoffmeier
- Alfred Heber Hutty
- George Inness
- Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobson
- Edgar W. Jenney
- Theodore Jeremenko
- Eastman Johnson
- Illya Kagan
- Michael Keane
- William Keith
- David Kooharian
- Kenneth Layman
- David Lazarus
- George Lear
- Richard Hayley Lever
- John Lochtefeld
- Harriet Lord
- Richard Loud
- William W. Lowe
- Michael Lynch
- William Starbuck Macy
- William Ferdinand Macy
- Wendell Macy
- Aletha Macy
- George Herbert McCord
- Keith McDaniel
- Joseph McGurl
- Maggie Meredith
- Addison Thomas Millar
- Jan L. Munro
- Mary Sarg Murphy
- Mark Myers
- Tom Nicholas
- Reginald Eugene Nickerson
- Michael A. Palmer
- Margaret Jordan Patterson
- Jan Pawlowski
- Edgar Payne
- C. Robert Perrin
- Helen Sharp Potter
- Jane Brewster Reid
- José Formoso Reyes
- Volney Allan Richardson
- Forrest Anderson Rodts
- Sergio Roffo
- Lenka Rubenstein
- Elizabeth Saltonstall
- Andrew Jackson Sandsbury
- Tony Sarg
- Issac Sheffield
- Andrew Shunney
- Henry Pember Smith
- Lillian Gertrude Smith
- H. Stadler
- Richard Stalter
- Robert Stark Jr.
- William Pierce Stubbs
- Mara Superior
- Ruth Haviland Sutton
- Ferdinand Sylvaro
- Anthony Thieme
- Tim Thompson
- Roy Tidmarsh
- Yasemin Tomakan
- Katie Trinkle-Legge
- Isabelle Hollister Tuttle
- Emma H. Van Pelt
- William Welch
- Orrin Augustine White
- Paul Whitten
- Paul Willer
- Sid Willis
- Bert Wright
- James Wyer
- Julian E. Yates
- Lori Zummo