Elyot Henderson, American (1908-1975)

Initially pursuing a career as a concert violinist, Elyot Henderson attended the Julliard Institute of Music in New York. He toured North and South America from 1933-1936 playing for informal parties, but after deciding that the touring life was not for him, he turned his focus to art, pursuing studies at The Art Students League in New York. There he worked with such well-known artists as Bernard Karfiol and Robert Laurent. Henderson was the curator of the Museum of Art of Ogunquit in 1961 and was a member of the Ogunquit Art Colony. He was a professor at Vassar College, head of the art department at Wheelock College and taught at Berwick Academy in South Berwick, Maine.