Sam Thompson (artist)
Sam Thompson (1930-2015) was an American watercolorist and oil painter from Pennsylvania and then Massachusetts. He served as a faculty member at the Philadelphia Museum School and also taught in the Boston area and on television.
Samuel G. Thompson Jr. was born in Philadelphia, in 1930 to Samuel and Helen (Ketcham) Thompson and later moved to Newtown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dobbins High School in 1949, and then graduated from the Philadelphia Museum College of Art in 1953 and later graduated from Philadelphia College of the Bible (now Cairn University). Thompson was an active member of the New England Watercolor Society exhibited paintings there and elsewhere. He died in 2015 and left the majority of his paintings in his estate to Park Street Church in Boston, and he was buried in Newtown Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
Samuel G. Thompson Jr. was born in Philadelphia, in 1930 to Samuel and Helen (Ketcham) Thompson and later moved to Newtown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dobbins High School in 1949, and then graduated from the Philadelphia Museum College of Art in 1953 and later graduated from Philadelphia College of the Bible (now Cairn University). Thompson was an active member of the New England Watercolor Society exhibited paintings there and elsewhere. He died in 2015 and left the majority of his paintings in his estate to Park Street Church in Boston, and he was buried in Newtown Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
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