William Alexander Coulter, (1849-1936 Sausalito, CA)
Ship at sail
Oil on canvas laid to canvas
18" H x 26.25" W
Private collection
William A. Coulter, born William
Alexander Coulter (March 7, 1849 – March 13, 1936), was an American
painter of marine subjects. Coulter was a native of Glenariff, County Antrim,
in what is today Northern Ireland. He became an apprentice seaman at the age of
13, and after seven years at sea, came to settle in San Francisco in 1869. In
the late 1870s, he went to Europe to study with marine artists Vilhelm Melbye,
François Musin, and J. C. Jacobsen. In 1896, he joined the art staff of the San
Francisco Call. Between 1909 and 1920, he painted five 16-by-18-foot murals for
the Assembly Room of the Merchants Exchange Building. Coulter resided in the
San Francisco Bay Area until his death at the age of 87, in his Sausalito home.
During the course of his life, his paintings chronicled the history of shipping
and navigation in the San Francisco and San Pablo bays. More on William A. Coulter
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