Paule Stetson Loring (1899-1968) was a Rhode Island artist who earned an international reputation for his cartoons, caricatures, and seascapes.  He quit school at 13 and worked odd jobs, from truck driver to editor of a leather factory newsletter. But eventually, he distinguished himself as a war correspondent and political cartoonist for the Providence Journal-Bulletin.  

Besides sketching and hob-nobbing with the rich and famous, Loring loved boating and built his own Block Island Schooner, the Glory Anna II.  Later in life, he and his wife Virginia settled in Wickford, Rhode Island, where Loring sold paintings and sketches from a seaman's shanty that doubled as an artist's studio.

His papers were donated to the University by his widow, Virginia, in 1989.

Return to Christmas cards and original cartoons depicting winter scenes from the Paule Loring Collection.