1877-1970

Harrison Cady was a noted illustrator. He was born in Gardner, Massachusetts in 1877 and died in Rockport, Massachusetts in 1970. Cady in best known for his work, “Bedtime Stories” a daily-newspaper created by book and magazine writer Thorton W. Burgess who conceived the character of Peter Rabbit.

Harrison Cady’s first visited Rockport, Massachusetts in 1896 and soon became a summer resident, spending each summer in the quaint fishing village. In 1921 he helped found the Rockport Art Association and became a permanent summer resident. His landscape and seascape paintings of Cape Ann are highly collectible and are of enduring value.

The painting, Grappling the Lost Anchor, won the Edwin Palmer Memorial Award at the National Academy of design in 1945 as the best marine painting that year.