As Dougherty reached middle age , he kept up his exhibitions and travels . He spent the late spring and summer of each year abroad , usually arriving home in October or November . His New York studio changes locations almost annually . In the 1920s he exhibited his watercolors more frequently and in 1920 and 1921 alone his work in this medium was exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art , the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester New York , the Brooklyn Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago . While his friend and dealer William Macbeth ( 1851 – 1917 ) had died in 1917 , Dougherty 's long relationship with Macbeth Galleries continued through his rotund son , Robert Wilson Macbeth who took over the gallery upon his father 's death . Even though the modern movements were becoming more popular , especially in New York City , landscape and marine paintings still remained popular and had a dedicated constituency . Another major feature on Dougherty appeared in the pages of the International Studio , the most famous English language art publication in 1921 and again , the writer , Ameen Rihani , compared the painter to Winslow Homer : " ... there is no doubt that the mantle of Winslow Homer has fallen on Paul Dougherty . Does it fit ? Does it trail ? Does it inspire respect ? I can answer the last question in the affirmative . " As he reached the heart of his career , Dougherty became more interested in light and experimented with " broken color " techniques and " optical blending . " In 1913 , in the museum journal '' Aesthetics '' , he was described said to be ... " now pre-eminently a painter of light , as much an exponent of it as Claude Monet . " Dougherty had a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1914 . In an attempt to become known for landscapes as well as marines paintings he was represented by a number of his pictures of the Swiss Alps including " Evening Calm . " In the bulletin of the Art Institute the editor said that " Mr. Dougherty is now chiefly thought of as a painter of accomplished marines ; but his mountain pictures , though less well known are no less important . " In 1915 the Panama-Pacific International Exposition was held in San Francisco to celebrate the city 's rebirth after the San Francisco earthquake and fire . The San Francisco world 's fair featured a massive exhibition of paintings from the history of art as well as hundreds of works by contemporary artists from the United States and Europe . This exhibition is considered a turning point in California Art and it was also a triumph for Paul Dougherty who had four works exhibited and was awarded a Gold Medal . In his guide to the exhibition , the writer Michael Williams stated that " Another marine artist whose work is well and favorably known and which has been awarded a Gold Medal , is Paul Dougherty . Four pictures by him hang on Wall A. Paul Dougherty is a New York man , of such independence of mind that he studied without any masters in Paris , London , Florence , Venice and Munich . Examples of his work hang in all the principal galleries of the country . " Dougherty was in such demand that a 1916 issue of the '' Bulletin '' for the Detroit Museum of Art mentioned him among the American artists who had " reached the zenith of their power " whose works they were seeking for their permanent collection . That December , his watercolors were the subject of an exhibition at Macbeth Gallery and in a review , the writer for the New York Times complimented Dougherty 's progress by saying that " in his oil pictures has worked during the last ten years with a steadily increasing appreciation of chromatic values , is showing at the Macbeth Galleries a group of water colors that challenge comparison with the best of their kind . " By the 1920s , Dougherty was beginning to suffer the debilitating effects of arthritis . Although he did not move to California for a number of years , he was painting on the Monterey Peninsula by 1925 because he entered " Evening at Monterey " in the large exhibition of American watercolors that Macbeth Gallery opened in December of that year . Searching for a better climate to ease its effects , he and his last wife , the socialite Paula Gates , moved west , first to the dry desert climate of Tucson , Arizona . Still wanting to be near the sea , In 1931 the Doughertys found a home in the art colony of Carmel , California , a picturesque spot on the rugged central coast of California , south of San Francisco . He joined the Carmel Art Association and became active in the local art scene . There , he sketched Carmel Bay and the coastal inlets from vantage points on the cliffs . For a number of years , Dougherty spent the cooler months in the desert and the rest of the year in Carmel where he still painted prolifically . Despite his ailments , he and his wife Paula still traveled abroad , going to Europe in 1934 and 1937 . still By the 1940s , the effects of old age began to creep up on him and he was unable to work for the last four years of his life . Finally , he was struck with cancer and died in Palm Springs , California where he was wintering , at the age of sixty-nine . Dougherty 's Palm Springs home , designed by the architect John Porter Clark , was designated a Class One Historic Site by the City of Palm Springs in 2014
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Paul Dougherty (artist)