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{{subpages}} {{TOC|right}} {{Image|Waldo Peirce 1960 Copyright by Michael Pierce.jpg|left|200px|Waldo Peirce around 1960.}} '''Waldo Peirce''' (December 17, 1884, Bangor, Maine–March 8, 1970, Newburyport, Massachusetts) was, during his lifetime, a prominent American artist.<ref>In 1945 [[Life]] magazine called him "one of American's most famous painters"—'''Waldo Peirce: A New Assessment 1884-1970''', University of Maine at Orono Printing Office, University of Maine, 1984, page 37</ref> He was also a well-known personality, as famous for his eccentricities as for his painting; this commingling for many years of his artistic career with his public personna may help explain why, upon his death at age 85, he then virtually vanished from the history of American art even though he is well represented in many of the major American museums such as the Metropolitan and the Whitney.<ref>A 1945 biography, '''Waldo Peirce''', American Artists Group, Monograph Number 5, New York, 1945, notes on the last, unnumbered page of the booklet that Peirce was already "represented in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, University of Arizona, State College of Washington, Encyclopaedia Brittanica Collection, Harvard University, University of Maine, University of Nebraska, Fransworth Gallery." Among the private collections mentioned were those of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mervyn LeRoy, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Ernest Hemingway, and John Marquand.</ref> Sometimes called "the American Renoir," or "the American Matisse", Peirce never belonged to any well-defined school of art except, perhaps, for a time, the so-called Regionalists; his lack of association with other famous painters may also have diminished his long-term reputation. Born to wealth, Peirce once said that he never worked a day in his life. He did, however, for 50 years, spend many hours every day painting thousands of pictures of his beloved families, still lifes, and landscapes. With a shaggy mustache and full beard and a large cigar jammed perpetually into his mouth, Peirce looked every inch of a cartoonist's notion of an artist. He himself, however, was adamant: "I'm a painter," he insisted, "not an artist."

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