DOUGHERTY, PAUL (1877— ), American painter, was born at Brooklyn (N.Y.), on Sept. 6, 1877. He was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and the New York Law school, where he took the degree of LL.B. in 1898. He then spent five years in Europe, devoting himself to the study of art. His first picture was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 190 r . He was chiefly concerned with marine subjects, in which he achieved great suc cess, being awarded the Osborne Prize (1905), the Inness Gold Medal and the Carnegie Prize, National Academy of Design (1913), the gold medal at the San Francisco exposition (1915), and the Altman Prize (1918) . Among his more important pic tures are "October Seas," "The Road to Cayey," and "Lake Louise," in the Metropolitan Museum, New York city ; "The Land and the Sea," in the Corcoran gallery, Washington ; "Flood Tide," in the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh ; "Moonlight Cove," in the Toledo museum; "Sun and Storm," in the National gallery, Wash ington ; and "A Freshening Gale," in the Albright Art gallery, Buffalo.