Frederick William Boulton (1904 - 1969) American Title: Messenger 22
Watercolor on Paper
Measure 20 3/4"in H x 28 1/2"in W and 30 1/2"in H x 38"in W framed
Known for: Commercial advertising art, train themes, landscape and garden scene painting

Biography: Frederick Boulton studied at the Chicago Art Institute. American Academy of Art, Chicago, Academy Julian, Paris, and was a student of John Norton, C.O. Woodbury, and Joseph Allworthy. The artist's varied experience included painting trips to Europe, North Africa, Cuba, South America and the Caribbean Islands. He exhibited in the Chicago Art Institute of International Water-Color Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Lyman Allyn Museum, Wustum Museum of Fine Art, North Shore artist's Exhibitions, American Water-Color Society, Chicago Art Directors Fine Arts Shows and the Arts Club of Chicago. In June 1923, Boulton joined the Chicago office of J. Walter Thompson Company, advertising agency, where he had a summer job to earn tuition for his second year of study at the Chicago Art Institute. Forty-two years later, in 1965 Boulton retired from J. Water Thompson as Senior Vice President and Director of Creative Service, heading up the Chicago Arts Department. To this day one of the most recognized works of Boulton is the S train station logo he designed for Wausau Insurance Co. Boulton lived in the Chicago area most of his creative years and did a series of oil and water color works focusing on train travel. In 1965 when he retired, Bouton was quoted as saying his future plans were "to return to do what I started to do in 1922 (before being waylaid by the advertising busness and economic necessity) to paint and draw and experience the joys and frustrations of the finer arts." Provenance: Property from the Collection of Lorna Boulton, Chicago, Illinois

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