Trawlers Coaling, Boulogne, n.d. Walter Elmer Schofield, (1867 – 1944), oil on canvas, H. 30 x W. 36, Collection of the Bucks County Intermediate Unit #22.

Artists from all periods of history tend to paint things they love, or things they can look at in their daily lives. Since Walter Elmer Schofield visited his family along the coast of England many times in his life, he painted the sea often.

Schofield was also known as a landscape painter. Although Schofield specialized in snow scenes, painted in Bucks County and other areas in the Delaware River Valley, he also created marine landscapes frequently painted in Cornwall, England. Schofield usually painted outdoors, en plein air. He was a strapping outdoorsman who stood 6′4″ and loved even the bitterest winter weather. Read More »