Hawthorne Voorhees Catalog

9 field of art. 3 He graduated fromColumbia in June 1893 and shortly thereafter undertook a bicycle trip from New York to Rhode Island, during which he visited Old Lyme, Connecticut, for the first time. In January the following year, Voorhees began his formal, if tentative, study of art by enrolling part-time at the Art Students League in New York. Over the next couple of years he was divided between pursuing a career in the scien- tific field for which he was trained and pursuing one in the arts for which he was passionate. In the mean- time, he continued sporadic studies in art, spending July 1895 in Peconic, Long Island, with the Impressionist Irving Ramsay Wiles. In addition to instruction in painting, study under Wiles included a visit to the studio of prominent painterWilliamMeritt Chase. 4 The following year Voorhees finally decided to abandon chemistry and follow a career in art full-time, subsequently studying during the summermonths under the tutelage of the New England Impressionist Leonard Ochtman in Riverside, Connecticut. In 1897, now fully committed to art, Voorhees traveled to Paris to continue his studies at the Académie Julian, where he trained under French academic painters Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul