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Henry Varnum Poor POOR'S NO PAUPER by Daniel Grant

With all the complaints about Standard & Poor’s these days, let’s not drag Henry Varnum Poor into it. That would be the artist Henry Varnum Poor (1888-1970),

painter of landscapes, portraits and still-lifes, as well as an accomplished self-taught ceramicist. He had nothing to do with Wall Street, save that he was

grandnephew of money-man Henry Varnum Poor (1812-1905), the financial analyst and founder of H.V. and H.W. Poor Co., which merged with the Standard

Statistics Bureau in 1941 to become Standard & Poor’s, the bond-rating agency.

Our Henry Varnum Poor "was a successful artist in the period between the wars” -- meaning World War I and World War II -- “which is saying something, because

not many artists were able to support themselves from their work during that time,” noted Caroline Hannah, a doctoral student at the Bard College Graduate

Center in Manhattan, who is currently working on a dissertation on Poor. Success didn’t mean high times, according to his son, Peter Poor, who lives on Cape

Cod in Massachusetts and is in his 80s, “but you didn’t need to have a lot of money back then in order to live well. We had our groceries delivered. That was

something.”

Poor was born in central Kansas, but his father, Henry Varnum Poor III, a grain merchant and bank owner, moved the family to Kansas City, Missouri, which is

where the future artist grew up. “They called themselves the ‘poor Poors,’” Hannah said, to distinguish themselves from the Henry Varnum Poors who were the

direct descendants of the financial analyst. Although there was some overlap in their life spans, it does not appear that the analyst and future artist ever

met. Still, the name and resulting confusion was ever-present, and the artist signed his work -- at least early on in his career -- “HV Poor.”

The name Henry Varnum Poor was taken by various members of the extended family and was a regular source of uncertainty. “There was one time when one of the

Henry Varnum Poors died, and one of my mother’s friends called her in the middle of the night, telling her she had just heard the news and how sorry she was

about her husband, and was there anything she could do,” Peter Poor said. “My mother, who had just left my father in bed to come downstairs to get the phone,

said to her, ‘What are you talking about?. . .’”

Poor graduated from Stanford University in 1910, having majored in art, and soon after, he traveled to London and Paris to look at and study art in greater

depth. On his return, he began teaching art at Stanford until he was drafted into the First World War, more active as a combat artist for his regiment than

as an infantryman. After his military stint, Poor returned to California, but soon drifted east to New York City, and he remained an easterner for the

remainder of his life.

“Many people are more familiar with his ceramics than with his paintings,” said Priscilla Caldwell, co-owner of Manhattan’s James Graham & Sons gallery,

which has represented Poor’s fine art and ceramics for years. “He was a leading figure in the art pottery movement during the 1920s,” and many museums have

examples of his work in their collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan

Museum of Art and the Newark Museum. “We’ve placed some important paintings at the Wichita Art Museum, as well as a full tea set,” Caldwell said.

Solo exhibitions of Poor's work are rare, but the last one at the gallery took place in 1999, eliciting a largely positive review in the New York Times in

which the landscapes were deemed “notable for their sense of keen observation and changing light and weather.”

It was during the 1930s that Poor began to concentrate more on painting, creating easel paintings that were exhibited at the Rehn Gallery, which also showed

the work of Edward Hopper, and a series of murals for what was later renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building and the Department of

Interior Building in Washington, D.C., as well as for the Louisville Courier-Journal building in Kentucky and the Old Main Building at Pennsylvania State University.

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