Harry Vincent was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was an important part of the Rockport, Massachusetts art colony, making it his home. Harry Aiken Vincent was known for his bold Impressionist harbor scenes. Harry Aiken Vincent was a prominent member of the Rockport Art Colony in the beginning of the twentieth century. He was self-taught with a desire for bold imprecise marine and waterfront scenes, showing special significance in themes of the common place in the working harbor.

His work was well acknowledged in exhibitions at New York's National Academy and the Salmagundi Club in the early 1900s, with most of them being marine paintings. To become familiar with Cape Ann fishermen he preferred to live on the edge of Inner Harbor. They often took him out to sea where he could study the ocean closely. He became the first president of the Rockport Art Association in 1921 and served as a charter member of the North Shore Art Association.

His vivid marine paintings won several prizes from the Salmagundi Club and the New York Watercolor Club and were featured in exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Today, Vincent's work is in such prominent collections as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Butler Institute of American Art. "Harry Vincent and His Contemporaries" and is included in the book under the same name. The exhibition was held in the fall of 2006 by the Rockport Art Association, Rockport, Massachusetts.

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