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Ernest Lee Major    (American, 1864-1950)




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Biography
1885 At the age of twenty-one, Major was the first to win the Hallgarten Art Scholarship, which at that time included travel expenses for study in Europe
1888 Returned to Boston when he resumed his career as a teacher at the Cowles Art School
1896 Taught at the Massachusetts Normal Art School
Studied under E. C. Messer at Corcoran Gallery of Art
Studied under William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League in New York City
Spent most of his non-teaching hours at the famous Fenway Studios in Boston while during the summers he worked en plein air at Tamworth, New Hampshire.
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