Almond Hart Wentworth, St. Petersburg, Cowshed, 54th Avenue and 17 Street North, 1946, oil on board, 8.75 by 11.875, Signed lower right and titled, verso.
Almond Hart Wentworth was thirty-two years old when he was appointed supervisor of drawing in the schools of New Haven, Connecticut in 1904. A native of New Hampshire, Wentworth graduated from the Cowles Art school in Boston in 1900. He held the position of supervisor of drawing in Tonawanda, New York before coming to New Haven. In 1908 Wentworth helped organize the Connecticut Manual Art Teachers’ Association. After retirement as Supervisor of Art in New Haven, Wentworth spent summers in East Lebanon, Maine and winters in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Born: 1872, New Hampshire. Education: Cowels School of Art, Boston. Membership: Art Club of St. Petersburg; Connecticut Manual Arts Teachers’ Association. Exhibits: Art Club of St. Petersburg, December 1948; Art Club of St. Petersburg, 31st Annual Spring Exhibition, March 1949, Moat Mountain-Conway, New Hampshire; Art Club of St. Petersburg, April 1950, Million Dollar Pier; Art Club of St. Petersburg, Christmas Exhibit, December 1950; Art Club of St. Petersburg, Members’ Spring Exhibition, March 1953, oil, Connecticut Lake.
