The Mood Room · Paul Hampden Dougherty
Paul Hampden Dougherty Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Paul Hampden Dougherty
Paul Hampden Dougherty: A Life in Coastal Impressionism Early Life and Education Born: September 6, 1877, in Brooklyn, New York. Dougherty came from a prominent family; his father, J. Hampden Dougherty, was a respected attorney and legal scholar. Despite his father’s wishes for him to follow a legal path, Paul demonstrated an early passion for art, sketching constantly from a young age. He graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic I
nstitute in 1896 with some artistic training and later earned a law degree from New York Law School, passing the bar but ultimately choosing art as his profession. Formal artistic training was relatively brief, reportedly including studies with Henry Ward Ranger in 1897 and potentially William S. Barnett. Artistic Development and Influences Dougherty’s early work showed the influence of both American and European landscape tradi…
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mood
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