Stanley M. Arthurs

This biography from the archives of AskART.com.

Considered the artist laureate of Delaware, he was a painter of numerous historical works that became a "pictorial synthesis of America" (Harmsen "Western Art").

He was a student and good friend of famed illustrator, Howard Pyle, and did many commercial art assignments. "Harper's Weekly" did the first published work of Arthurs in December, 1899. After Pyle's death in 1912, Arthurs purchased his studio at Wilmington, Delaware and became very much a part of the heydey-era of illustration art.

Sadly, many of his notes and sketches were destroyed, and after his death, much of his work sold at very low prices. Hundreds of his prints are at the Brandywine River Museum at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and his murals are at the State Capitol in Dover, Delaware.