Edward Vance Warren

Edward Vance Warren was born to William R Warren and Anna G Munyan Warren in

West Upton, Massachusetts on May 30, 1881 After completing his professional

architectural training at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, he continued to practice in

that city for several decades. An excellent illustrator as well, he did covers for The

Saturday Evening Post, The New Yorker, Colliers, and other nationally known

publications. He also designed and painted a number of murals for New York restaurants

and night clubs.

In the early decades of this century Warren produced a large number of watercolors, primarily street and hunt scenes, some of which were chosen for exlubition at the Chicago Art Institute in 1924 and again in 1936 The following works were listed #1475 - "Park Patches," #476- "Sidewalk Cafe," #477 - "East is West," and #499 - "Bon Voyage" During this period Warren resided at 399 Classon Avenue in Brooklyn At the outbreak of the Second World War he painted many striking watercolors of the New York waterfront, especially the Brooklyn Navy Yard, together with a few oils in a softer palette of the same subjects There also exists a small but fascinating body of work done in North Africa sometime during this period

Nearly all of his works contain human figures, their personalities vividly portrayed with just a few facile brush strokes He was also an exceptional depictor of animals which is evidenced by a large group of circus watercolors, and the ubiquitous horse that he managed to place in even the most unlikely street or waterfront scene

Warren moved to Brookline, Massachusetts in the later years and was employed by the Boston architectural firm of Jackson Moreland until his retirement in 1954. The following year ill health caused him to move in with his sister, Miss Fanny Warren, at whose home at 3 Greenleaf Street in Newburyport, he died of a heart attack on March 16, 1958. He is buried at the Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts

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