George Daniell (NY,1911 - 2002) "Ease by the Sea", Fire Island New York. Oil on Board. Sight Size: 17.5 x 22.5 inches. Daniell studied drawing at Yale University and New York's American People's School and Art Students League. He began taking photographs as a teenager in his native Yonkers, N.Y., and, after graduating from college, became a freelance photographer in New York City and Europe. His work appeared over the years in Time and Life magazines, among others, and is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery in Washington.Daniell excelled in watercolors and his subjects ranged from the gay culture of New York's Fire Island, where he spent his youth, to Maine coastal life, nudes on beaches and still lifes of lobster, fruit and flowers.