Harry Russell Ballinger (1892-1993)

Harry Ballinger was born in 1892 and studied at the University of California, San Francisco; the Art Students League; the Académie Colarossi, Paris; and with Harvey Dunn. Throughout the 1920s and ’30s, his illustrations appeared in publications such as Ladies’ Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, and Cosmopolitan. Ballinger worked in a subtle watercolor style with an emphasis on drawing room scenes. Following his career as a magazine illustrator while living in New Hartford, Connecticut, and Rockport, Massachusetts, Ballinger became well known for his seascape paintings. He authored the books Painting Surf and Sea (1957); Painting Boats and Harbors (1959); Landscapes (1965); and Painting Sea and Shore (1966).