Several years ago I wrote a York Sunday News column and some blog posts on native York artist Stephen Etnier (1903-1984). Etnier painted scenes of York, the Caribbean and many of Maine, where he spent a good part of his life. Occasionally an Etnier work will come up for auction.
After reading my recent York Sunday News column on York County native artist Stephen Etnier, a friend asked if York County Heritage Trust if YCHT had any Etnier paintings. The Trust has three of his framed in its collection. Two are scenes painted in Maine, where Etnier spent most of
Stephen Morgan Etnier (1903-1984) was expected to go into the family business, the hugely successful turbine manufacturing company started by his grandfather, Moravian minister and inventor Stephen Morgan Smith. Young Stephen had other ideas–he saw art, not business in his future. Etnier grew up in York. His parents, Susan Smith