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Short Biography of the artist William Savory Bucklin,  a commercially successful and artistically acclaimed artist during his lifetime (1851-1928).

William Savery Bucklin (herein sometimes William or William Savery, or W.S.) painted and exhibited in art shows from the east coast to the west coast of the United States. He painted not only numerous individual oil and water color pictures, but also wall murals for public spaces and pictures for national magazines. During his working life, he was active principally in the east coast states, but lived temporarily at sundry places, including a cottage on the coast of California.

William Savery was inspired by the woods and streams of the area in which the New Jersey Phylanx movement formed a community. His best known or admired works tend to be those scenic views. William Savery stayed a resident of the Phylanx (near Red Bank, New Jersey ) all his life, and died there in 1928 at the age of 77.

William Savery Bucklin was born in 1851 in Red Bank, New Jersey. (In the Joseph Bucklin Society database his reference number is Buck291.)  His father was a prime mover of the New Jersey Phylanx movement. The Phylanx movement (see our note on the North American Phylanx) attracted a number of intellectuals of the day, and, in New Jersey, the North American Phylanx community group produced several authors and artists.

William Savery Bucklin's career as a painter started when he was 11 years old, when  he sold a painting to the poet E. C. Stedman. William  studied at the Normal Art School in Boston and the Art Students League in New York City, which became one of the country's most important art schools. He was a member of the Art Students League; Greenwich Society of Artists, and the Professional League.

William Savery Bucklin exhibited, among other places, at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fire Arts, 1880-1881; Brooklyn Art Association, 1883-85; Boston Art Club; National Academy of Design, 18990; Art Institute of Chicago, 1891, 1894-96, 1901-03; 1913-14; and 1916.

William Savory Bucklin has been listed in a number of standard art reference works, including Mallett, Fieldings, Who's Who, and Davenports.

William Savory Bucklin is also notable for being part of the Bucklin group in the the historically interesting American Phalanx movement of the 19th century.

See paintings by William Savery Bucklin -- our "William's Pictures Catalog