Westport River Gallery has a new collection of originals from the estate of William A Drake. A prominent Canadian/American theatrical designer, painter, printmaker, draftsman, and educator, William Alexander Drake was born in Toronto, and died in Bergenfield, NJ. Drake worked in the early motion picture business in NJ, taught at Yale, exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, he was a scenic artist for live theater in NYC for over 60 years, and was an art director for NBC TV. He created scenery for some of the most famous Broadway plays and his paintings, prints and drawings are in several museum collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Canada. Click for more.