American, 1879 - 1970
Delbos came to the United States in 1920, already an accomplished painter. Much later, when completing the Academy's biographical questionnaire, he left blank the section "Studied in what schools." The Ainslee Galleries, New York, present an exhibition of his watercolor paintings in 1923. He first exhibited in an Academy annual exhibition in the same year, and remained a regular contributor through 1965. Through the 1920s the titles of works shown in the annuals suggest he had spent time in France and Spain. Although Delbos's chosen media was watercolor--and it was in that classification he was elected to the Academy--his paintings shown at the Academy into the mid-1940s, when watercolors were accomodated in the exhibitions, were in the oil media. In 1943 an exhibition of his watercolors was held at Kleeman Galleries, New York, which included works done that summer in Maine at Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island. In 1959 Delbos won the Dagmar Haggstrom Tribble Purchase Prize for "Sunset" at the 85th Annual Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society, of which he was a member.
Although a resident of New York, from 1946 to 1960 he taught art at Rosemary Hall, and the Haithcock School, private secondary schools in Greenwich, Connecticut; within the same period he was an instructor in art and music at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Shortly after his arrival in America, Delbos began to spend his summers on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard, where he was described as the "dean of [its] art colony." In his late years he often wintered in Georgia and Tennessee. A man of many talents and interests he was an accomplished pianist, authored a book on the monuments of Cambridge, England, and gave readings from Shakespeare.
Although a resident of New York, from 1946 to 1960 he taught art at Rosemary Hall, and the Haithcock School, private secondary schools in Greenwich, Connecticut; within the same period he was an instructor in art and music at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Shortly after his arrival in America, Delbos began to spend his summers on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard, where he was described as the "dean of [its] art colony." In his late years he often wintered in Georgia and Tennessee. A man of many talents and interests he was an accomplished pianist, authored a book on the monuments of Cambridge, England, and gave readings from Shakespeare.
