the landing of the pilgrims by james daugherty

He grew up in Washington and studied at the Corcoran School and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before accompanying his parents overseas. C., he had heard the tales of Boone in southern Ohio from his grandfather. Daugherty did, however, take great satisfaction in his books for young people. He returned, he said, “arrogant and ignorant,” settled in Brooklyn Heights, absorbed the famous 1913 Armory show and, to make a living, began doing magazine illustrations and advertising drawings-“a waste of precious years,” in his words.

It was about 1908 in London, where he was studying painting under Frank Brangwyn while his father was stationed in Britain for the Department of Agriculture, that he discovered Walt Whitman and, “took fire from his vision,” he explained. Daugherty gave his own answer in 1940, when his book “Daniel Boone” won the John Newbery medal for the year's, most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. “Why, exactly, an artist of this quality could not go on to have a career comparable to those of the European artists Of his generation-why he got sidetracked in a career of illustration-is another issue.” Daugherty's paintings since 1915 were exhibited in New York in 1971, Hilton Kramer, New York Times art critic, wrote that he was “one of those painters who somehow gleaned the essence of the modernist principle at the trans‐Atlantic distance.” Daugherty, who also won distinction as a writer and illustrator of children's books on American historical themes, was 84 years old and lived on Broad Street here.

Daugherty, an early nonobjective artist of the synchromist school, which structured paintings by means of flat planes And disks of brilliant color, died today in Boston nursing home.

The landing of the pilgrims by james daugherty