William Merritt Post (1856-1935) Maintained studios in both New York City and in West Morris, now Bantum, Connecticut. He first studied art in New York with Samuel Frost Johnson, then the Art Students League with James Carroll Beckwith and finally with the landscape painter, Hugh Bolton Jones. He and Jones did tightly focused landscape scenes, often with streams amid trees. Capturing light at differing times was their goal, and by the mid-1880s, he was influenced by Impressionism. An associate member of the National Academy of Design in New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1912.