Known for his bucolic landscapes with grazing cows, Thomas Craig was born in Philadelphia where he remained until 1889 and then moved to New York City until 1899.  He finally settled in Rutherford, New Jersey, but maintained a summer studio in Woodland Valle, near Phoenicia, New York.

He was largely self taught, but his activity in the Philadelphia Sketch Club, 1873 to 1876, suggests he was a student of Thomas Eakins.  He exhibited for forty-five years at the National Academy of Design.  He frequently painted in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Sources include: 

Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art

William Patterson & David Zellin, Thomas Eakins and His Fellow Artists at the Philadelphia Sketch Club