Arthur Webster Emerson
Arthur Webster Emerson was a painter who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the son of Nathaniel Bright Emerson, and grandson of missionaries John S. Emerson and Ursula Newell Emerson. As a young Hawaiian-born artist, he was encouraged in his painting by Madge Tennent. During the 1910s and 1920s, he painted in New York with other young artists associated with the Ashcan School. Emerson died in 1968.Footnotes
