Henry Clarence Pitz, A.N.A., was born in Philadelphia in 1895 and studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and the Spring Garden Institute. He has a brilliant record of achievement as illustrator, painter, author, teacher and winner of many awards.
Memberships (partial):
Philadelphia College of Art, former director of Illustration Course
Philadelphia Sketch Club, ex-President
Philadelphia Art Alliance, director, ex-vice president
Philadelphia Watercolor Club, director
American Watercolor Society, director
Salmagundi Club
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Work in Public Collections (partial):
Cleveland Museum of Art
Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio
Library of Congress
Los Angeles Museum
Reading Museum, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Denver Museum
Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton
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