Frank Reed Whiteside
American (1866-1929)
Landscape painter Frank Reed Whiteside was born in Philadelphia in 1866. He received his artistic training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Academie Julian in Paris. In addition to living in Philadelphia, Whiteside also held residence in Ogunquit, Maine. He was actively involved in the Philadelphia artistic community having membership to the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and serving as a Fellow to the Board of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. He exhibited extensively during his career including such prestigious venues as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the Phoenix Art Museum where a retrospective of WhitesideÃs work was held in 1971. Despite residing in the northeast, Whiteside visited the Zuni Indians in New Mexico repeatedly between 1890 and 1920, capturing the grand vistas of the American west during his travels. Whiteside was tragically and mysteriously shot at his home in Philadelphia in 1929.