01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #302

Waldo Peirce, (American, 1884–1970)

Sirens of Searsport

Oil on canvas

22" x 36"

Private collection

Searsport is an incorporated town and deep water seaport located at the confluence of the Penobscot River estuary and the Penobscot Bay. Searsport is Maine's second largest deep water port and is ideally located from the point of view of railroad, wood products and other development interests. More on Searsport

Waldo Peirce (December 17, 1884 – March 8, 1970) was an American painter. He was sometimes called "the American Renoir". 

Peirce was born in Bangor. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1903. He then attended Harvard University.

In 1915 he joined the American Field Service, an ambulance corps that served on the French battlefields, two years before the entry of the United States into World War I. He was later decorated with the Croix de Guerre by the French government for bravery at Verdun. 

He lived in Searsport, Maine. He died on March 8, 1970, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. More on Waldo Peirce

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