Stow Wengenroth - Selected collections

Lithographer, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at the Art Students League and the Grand Central School of Art, and lived in Greenport, Long Island, and Rockport, ME. Known as a celebrated New England lithographer, as in ‘Black Weather’ (1932) and ‘Untamed’ (1947), he was praised by Andrew Wyeth as ‘the greatest black-and-white artist in America’.

Stow Wengenroth (1906-1978) was an American artist and lithographer, born in 1906 in Brooklyn, New York. Wengenroth studied at the Art Students League of New York under George Bridgeman and John Carlson from 1923 to 1927. He was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters (renamed the American Academy of Arts and Letters) in 1942, and was also a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and the Prairie Printmakers.

Wengenroth's lithographs are found in most major American collections, including the Library of Congress, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. While his urban scenes of Manhattan and New York City are especially coveted by the current market, Wengenroth was most adept at sincere and vivid depictions of the New England littoral and interior. White: Four Decades of Prints, 1905-1947 1996: Kennedy Galleries, New York: American Master Prints

Selected collections

Library of Congress, Washington Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Fogg Museum of Art, Cambridge Los Angeles County Museum of Art Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh Boston Museum of Fine Arts Boston Public Library