Size: 16.5” x 13.5" Framed

Medium: Watercolor

Fritz’s watercolor landscapes and seascapes showcase the light and transparency of the medium. This harbor scene uses blues and grays to create the mood and environment. Buildings disappear into the horizon in Fritz’s signature style which includes inserting a character in his landscapes. A lone fisherman working on the dock completes the scene.

The painter and illustrator professionally known as Emmett John Fritz (born John Emmett Fritz) was born on October 13 1917 in Kansas City, Missouri. He studied art at Pratt Institute in New York graduating in 1937. Pratt Institute is a higher-learning graduate institution built with a focus on the fine arts, engineering, and architecture. Fritz also worked with Norman Rockwell for a brief period, becoming a known magazine and newspaper cartoonist for a comic strip called Roxie West, as well as an illustrator, before a move to Florida in 1950. He could be seen in his studio or on the streets of St. Augustine painting his famous street scenes and landscapes.