Emmet Fritz

Emmet Fritz - Watercolor - St. Augustine

(with frame)

$1,000

 

Emmett Fritz was born October 13, 1917 and studied at Pratt Institute in 1937 and briefly with Norman Rockwell. He painted landscapes in New England through the late 1930’s and 1940’s, and also worked as an illustrator and as cartoonist for the comic strip “Roxie West”. In 1950, he left New York and moved to St. Augustine, Florida, where he became an active and much-loved member of the thriving artists’ community. A prolific painter in both oil and watercolor,  Fritz had great success in his own colorful impressionist style depicting Caribbean islands and particularly street scenes of St. Augustine and Palm Beach.