Stephen Morgan Etnier

Place: York

Born: 1903

Death: 1984

Biography:

Stephen Morgan Etnier (September 11, 1903 – November 7, 1984) was an American realist painter. His work is distinguished by a mixture of realism and luminism, favoring industrial and working scenes, but always imbued with atmospheric light. Geographically, his career spanned the length of the eastern Atlantic and beyond. He was born into a family of privilege in York, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a mansion called Wyndham. His parents purchased the mansion when Etnier was around 11 years old. He later developed an interest in art, particularly after seeing a Frederick Church painting of a sunset that was hanging on a wall in the house. Etnier's career spanned six decades and produced over five hundred works of art, exploring both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as many islands in the Caribbean, and Bermuda.