Edward Christiana was born in White Plains, NY in 1912.  He studied at the Pratt Institute in New York City, graduating in 1933 from the School of Related Arts and Sciences.  He taught at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, NY, for forty years, as well as teaching at local colleges and offering private lessons in central New York.   

His painting career spanned over five decades, his preferred mediums being oil paints and watercolors.  He visited Maine, from Monhegan to Katahdin, from the 1940s to the 1980s.  Interestingly, he never exhibited in the state he visited so regularly until 2004, when the Jameson Estate Collection, a division of the Jameson Art Group, held his first solo show in Maine, posthumously.  During the course of his painting career he experimented with current trends, such as Cubism and Expressionism, and incorporated lessons learned into his own personal vision.  He also was well aware, during his time in Maine, of those painters who had preceded him here: John Marin, Winslow Homer, Marsden Hartley, Rockwell Kent, and Carl Sprinchorn.   

With all this history at his disposal, and with a profound landscape to practice within, Edward Christiana was able to forge his own distinctively expressive style, in both watercolors and oils, as he learned to teach and taught to learn.  The Jameson Estate Collection is pleased to offer this artist’s work for our clients’ consideration and acquisition. 

Click here to view: Monhegan on Paper: Watercolors by Edward Christiana