Henry Michael O'Connor

HENRY MICHAEL O'CONNOR   O'Connor was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1891. He studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, Boston; and at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with Joseph DeCamp, Edmund Tarbell, and Abbott Thayer. He studied at the Académie Julian, Paris. He was also a pupil of Joseph Pennell. O’Connor became a proficient etcher, illustrator, and painter. In 1920-21 he was an apprentice to Abbott Thayer in Dublin, New Hampshire. O'Connor was an Official War Artist for the Navy in World War One and World War Two.  O'Connor illustrated two books: Gloucester Fisherman and Navy Men.  He served as President of the Salmagundi Club. His work in the permanent collections of the Massachusetts State Capital, Harvard University, and the Newark Museum.