About Stephen Etnier
Stephen Morgan Etnier (September 11, 1903 – November 7, 1984) was an American realist painter, and an active painter for six decades. His work is distinguished by a mixture of realism and luminism, favoring industrial and working scenes, but always imbued with atmospheric light. Geographically, his career spanned the length of the eastern Atlantic and beyond. == Childhood and education == Stephen Etnier was born on September 11, 1903, in York, Pennsylvania. His grandfather was E. Morgan Smith, the founder of Vioth Hydro. He was raised in a privileged environment in Wyndham Estate (now Wyndham Hills, Pennsylvania). From 1915 to 1922 he attended the Haverford and Hill schools in Pennsylvania, and Roxbury Tutoring School in Connecticut. He transferring to Yale School of Art in December 1922, and matriculated into Yale University class of 1926. Re-entering Yale University he was later dismissed for poor grades. He entered Haverford College in 1924.
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