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Henry Reuterdahl was born on August 12, 1871 at Malmö, Sweden, the son of Frederic and Augusta (Drake) Reuterdahl.
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Henry Reuterdahl was born on August 12, 1871 at Malmö, Sweden, the son of Frederic and Augusta (Drake) Reuterdahl.
His early education was received in the schools of Stockholm. He learned to draw without a master and did some work in scene painting and illustration.
In 1893, commissioned to go to Chicago to make a series of illustrations of the World's Fair, he came to America and decided to stay. During the Spanish-American War he served as a newspaper correspondent and wrote about the naval operations in the Caribbean for several periodicals.
He moved to New York, establishing his home in Weehawken, New Jersey. From this time he specialized in naval pictures and soon became a semi-official naval artist. He designed trophies for target practice and made decorations for the wardrooms of battleships. He illustrated John D. Long's History of the New American Navy (1903). By Collier's Weekly he was commissioned to make a tour of the European navies, the outcome of which was a series of pictures of the "Navies of the World. " Scores of his illustrations appeared in Collier's, the Scientific American, Scribner's, and other periodicals. He was attached to the battleship Minnesota during the fleet's cruise around South America and during the cruise to the Mediterranean in 1913; and he was present at the Vera Cruz campaign of 1914.
He made himself an advocate of the Navy, urging the duty of sustaining the sea forces, of understanding the work of naval men, and of becoming familiar with naval problems. Of the many papers he contributed to magazines, the most significant was his "Needs of the Navy, " published in McClure's, January 1908, in which he attacked the bureau system in the Navy Department with so much cogency that his argument led to an investigation by the United States Senate. He also found time to teach at the Art Students' League, New York, and to send pictures to many exhibitions.
He painted panels for the steam yachts Noma, Viking, and Vagrant, owned respectively by Vincent Astor, George F. Baker, Jr. , and Harold S. Vanderbilt. In the permanent collection of the Naval Academy, Annapolis, he is represented by a group of ten paintings donated by George von L. Meyer, secretary of the navy in the cabinet of President Taft. His "Combat between the Monitor and the Merrimac" is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington; his "Blast Furnaces" belongs to the Toledo Art Museum; and other works are in the possession of the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, the Missouri State Capitol at Jefferson City, Culver Military Academy, and the Kalamazoo Art Association.
In 1914 the Cincinnati Museum held an exhibition of his works. During the World War he was made a lieutenant-commander in the Naval Reserve; his death occurred in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D. C. , where he had been a patient for several months, and he was buried in Arlington Cemetery with full military honors.
He was highly acclaimed for his nautical artwork. He had a long relationship with the United States Navy. In addition to serving as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Reserve Force, he was selected by President Theodore Roosevelt to accompany the Great White Fleet voyage in 1907 to document the journey. In addition to his artwork, he was a frequent writer on naval topics, and served as an editor of Jane's Fighting Ships.
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As an artist, Reuterdahl was a member of the Society of Illustrators and the American Watercolor Society.
He married Pauline Stephenson of Chicago in 1899.
