Titled "New England Harbour", framed watercolor, signed lower right. The painter and illustrator Emmett John Fritz was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He studied art at Pratt Institute in New York graduating in 1937, and studied briefly with the noted Norman Rockwell. He painted landscapes in New England through the late 1930s and 1940s, 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 Carribbean islands and particularly street scenes of St. Augustine and Palm Beach. Overall size: 21 x 25 in. Sight size: 10 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. Please note that all sales are final. No refunds will be given under any circumstances.