Frederick Waugh (American, 1861-1940) was born in Bordentown, New Jersey in 1861.  He was best known for his paintings of crashing surf on rocky shores.  He wrote instruction books on how to paint the sea, such as Painting by the Sea and Seascape Painting, Step by Step; also, Landscape Painting with a Knife.  Waugh once said it was his return voyage from Paris across the Atlantic that inspired him to become a marine painter.  He painted along the New England coast, spending much time in Provincetown and also visiting other places such as Monhegan Island, Maine.  He was the son of Samuel Bell Waugh, portrait painter; and father of Coulton Waugh. 

Studied

With his father; PAFA with Thomas Eakins; Academie Julian, Paris with Bouguereau and T. Robert-Fleury, 1888-89

Member

Royal Acad., Bristol, England; ANA, 1909; NA, 1911; SC, 1908; Lotos Club; NAC; CAFA; PAFA; Boston AC; Wash. AC; North Shore AA, 1924; AFA

Exhibited

PAFA Ann., 1881-97, 1906-40; NAD, 1884, 1886, 1891, 1910 (prize), 1929 (prize), 1935 (prize); Royal Acad. London, 1899-06; Corcoran Gal. Biennials; Buenos Aires Expo., 1910 (gold); Boston AC (prize); AIC, 1912 (medal); CAFA, 1915 (prize); Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915; Phila. AC; CI; Buck Hill Falls AA

Work

MMA; AIC; TMA; NGA; Brooklyn Inst. Mus.; Montclair AM; PAFA; Butler AI; Bristol Acad.; Walker Art Gal.; Durban Art Gal, South Africa; Dallas AA; Austin AL; CAM, St. Louis; Currier Gal., Manchester, NH; the largest collection of his paintings is at the Edwin A. Ulrich Mus., Hyde Park, NY

Resources

WW40; Curtis, Curtis, and Lieberman, 112, 187; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 403; Falk, Exh. Record Series; info. Courtesy North Shore AA