Reuterdahl
HENRY, an American naval artist, born in Sweden in 1871. He saw the intimate incidents of the Spanish-American War as a correspondent, in which capacity he also served during the World War. The variety of his experience has added notably to his equipment as a marine artist. In 1913 he was attached to the battleship "Minnesota" on the South American cruise and he has had ten paintings hung in the permanent collection at the United States Naval Acad- REVEILLE emy. He was the author of "Needs of the Navy" (1908), which precipitated a Senate investigation on account of its revelation of weakness present in the bureaucratic administration then in vogue in the service. He has been an instructor at the Art Students' League of New York and was the creator of many marine murals upon the better known private American yachts. He contributed many articles on naval topics, mostly illustrated by himself, to magazines, notably to "Collier's Weekly," etc.