Lawrence Nelson Wilbur

1897-1988

American (New York, New York)

Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson Wilbur was born in Whitman, Massachusetts. He moved to Boston where he began his training as a photoengraver. He moved to Los Angeles in 1921, where he worked in the engraving department of the Los Angeles Times. Relocating to New York in 1925, Wilbur was employed as a finisher by several of New York’s finest engraving shops and by several of the leading magazines of the era. In 1957 he won the Audubon Artist’s medal of honor for a self-portrait in oil and he was a lifetime member of the Salmagundi Club.