The Luminous Legacy of Philip Francis Little In the annals of American Impressionism, few artists captured the quiet respiration of the New England landscape with as much grace and tenderness as Philip Francis Little. Born in Swampscott, Massachusetts, in 1857, Little’s life was a testament to the transformative power of artistic calling. Though his early path seemed destined for the rigorous logic of the law—having pursued legal studies at Harvard University—the pull of the natural world proved irresistible. He famously abandoned the courtroom for the easel, trading the structured arguments…