Harry Russell Ballinger (American, 1892-1993) "Surf at Andrew's Point"

Harry Russel Ballinger was an American artist known for sea-landscape painting, illustration, and genre works. He lived in New Hartford between 1935 and 1940. Ballinger’s preferred media were watercolors and oil and preferred subject seascapes. He illustrated for many magazines such as Yankee Magazine, McCall’s Magazine, and the Saturday Evening Post. He also taught art in Bristol, Connecticut from 1945 to 1946, and at Central Connecticut State University from 1945-1959. Ballinger wrote and illustrated four books: “Painting Surf and Sea” (1957), “Painting Boats and Harbors” (1959), “Landscapes” (1965), and “Painting Sea and Shore” (1966).