Christopher Blossom

After informal studies with his father, he attended the Parsons School of Design. At the same time, he worked in the Industrial Design studio of Robert Bourke where he learned to accurately interpret blueprints of all kinds. At the age of twenty, he was awarded a “Scholarship Gold Medal” by the Society of Illustrators. He went on to become a charter member and then President of the American Society of Marine Artists. Shortly thereafter, he was accepted into the exclusive Society of Historical Artists. He is the only marine artist to have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Western Art, from whom he received a “Gold Medal” in 1991.