T.A. Charron
T. A. Charron (Theodore Arthur Charron) is a native New Englander. Charron was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and raise, on the Charron Farm, in South Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Charron has studied with “The Boston School” classically trained painter, Robert Douglas Hunter and with the “Howard Pyle Lineage” illustrator, Norman Baer. Also, he studied with watercolorist, Murray Wentworth and with Canadian artist, Robert Bateman, to name a few. Early in his studies, Charron was a self-taught artist, drawing family members and farm animals in their surroundings, from life. Charron is a devoted en plein air painter, for over 50 years.
He is a graduate of the Art Institute of Boston (College of Art and Design at Lesley University) and graduated in 1972. He did additional studies in sculpture, with sculptor, Veryl Goodnight and stone lithography, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
Charron has received over 100 awards for excellence, in both painting and drawing. He has been elected into many American art societies and organizations including the Salmagundi Club in New York, the Lyme Art Association in Connecticut, and the North Shore Art Association and Rockport Art Association and Museum in Massachusetts.
His artwork is in the permanent collections of museums and other public and private collections worldwide. His commissioned paintings of Dr. Martin Luther King and Astronaut Ronald McNair and other significant portraits, of people of color, have been unveiled to thousands of people at the Hall of Black Achievement events, at Bridgewater State University. Charron’s paintings have been published in five historical books, and his art has been featured nationally and on local cable news stations.
As a curator, Charron put together “New England Impressions, Painting from Life” in 1989, for the Attleboro Arts Museum and was asked by the Harvard Club of Boston to curate the exhibition, “New England Painters of Today” in 1999. He was also the advisor for the exhibition, “Hounds of Heaven” in 1996, a series of paintings by R.H. Ives Gammell, held at the Attleboro Arts Museum.
At the Rockport Art Association & Museum, in Rockport, Massachusetts, Charron was on the exhibition and book committees for the W. Lester Stevens – 2003, Harry A. Vincent – 2006, and the A.T. Hibbard – 2012 national exhibitions.
Presently, Charron is on the Acquisition Committee, at the Cape Cod Museum of Art and Recording Secretary for the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic. He has served as Vice President of the Board of Trustees, at the Rockport Art Association & Museum and President of the Board of Trustees, of the Attleboro Arts Museum, in Massachusetts.
T. A. Charron has conducted workshop classes and painting and drawing demonstrations for over 30 years, teaching students both on location and in the studio. His traditional north light studio and home is located, in South Attleboro, Massachusetts.
