T.R. Braithwaite Scholarship

This scholarship was established by Joan Braithwaite Haller in memory of T.R. Braithwaite. He was born in 1902 in Brooklyn, New York and was raised in Chicago, Illinois. He started studying art at The Chicago Academy of fine Arts at the age of thirteen. He later graduated from The Chicago Art Institute. In 1925, Braithwaite moved to New York where he attended classes at The Grand Central School of Art and the Art Students League. There he met is wife and had is daughter. To support them he freelanced with various advertising agencies such as, Hires Root Beer, General Electric, and Wrigley’s Double-mint chewing gum. Braithwaite was actively involved in Bohemian milieu of Greenwich Billage and was one of the founding members of the Annual Outdoor Art Exhibition in Washington Square. He also worked on WPA mural projects, including the New York Central Library, numerous post offices and other government buildings. During the Great Depression, he left his wife and daughter in New York while he went to Boston for a temporary job with Forbes Lithograph. He got divorced in 1938 and moved back to Boston. He had his second daughter in 1948. In 1938, he accepted a full-time position in the advertising department at The Christian Science Monitor and worked there until he died in 1964.