an American Impressionist: Alson S. Clark (1876 - 1949)

 

Winter Industrial Landscape on the Chicago River, 1906. 

OIl on Canvas, 26 x 32 in.

Hillside, Giverny, 1911

Alson S. Clark (1876 - 1949) was an American Impressionist painter best remembered for his impressionist landscapes. Born in Chicago, Illinois, his art education included training at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League of New York, and in the atelier of William Merritt Chase. He spent much of his early career working in Paris, France. He served in the US Army as an aerial photographer during World War I. In 1920 he and his wife relocated to Pasadena, California. He taught fine art at Occidental College, and was director of the Stickney Memorial School of Art in Pasadena.

His memberships in arts organizations included the Pasadena Society of Artists and the California Art Club. His work was included in the Tonal Impressionism exhibition curated by Harry Muir Kurtzworth in 1937, along with the works of Frank Tenney Johnson, Frank Tolles Chamberlain and Theodore Lukits which was held in the Los Angeles Art Association Gallery at the Los Angeles Public Library.

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American Impressionism: Theodore Earl Butler

Theodore Butler (1861-1936)

Giverny Trees, Wind and Snow (1892-1893)
Provo, Brigham Young University Museum of Art

The Roman Square at Night

Giverny Church, Sunset (1910)

Sunset at Veules-les-Roses, Normandy (1909)

Theodore Earl Butler, (1861–1936) was an American impressionist painter. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to Paris to study art. He befriended Claude Monet in Giverny, and married his stepdaughter, Suzanne Hoschedé. After her death he married her sister, Marthe Hoschedé. Butler was a founding member of the Society of Independent Artists.

Butler's chosen subjects were domestic scenes of family and friends and the French landscape. Although his Impressionistic approach to painting sometimes reflected the influence of his father-in-law, his work also suggests Post-Impressionist tendencies as well.

Daniel Garber

Corn, 1908

Later Afternoon,September, 1915

Daniel Garber (1880–1958) was an American Impressionist landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his large impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, in which he often depicted the Delaware River. He also painted figurative interior works and excelled at etching. In addition to his painting career, Garber taught art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for over forty years.

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John Ottis Adams

John Ottis Adams (American, 1851-1927)

Flower Border

J. (John) Ottis Adams (July 8, 1851 – January 28, 1927) was an American impressionist painter and member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana painters.

He spent his youth in Franklin, Shelbyville, and Martinsville, Indiana and attended Wabash College for two years.

He studied art at the South Kensington School of Art in London for two years. He settled in Muncie in 1876 and opened a studio there in 1887 after spending seven years doing further art study in Munich with T. C. Steele and other members of the Hoosier Group. Adams was the central figure in the formation of an art school in Muncie, Indiana, where he later participated in forming the Art Students League of Muncie, after the Muncie Art School closed.

Adams later (with other members of the Hoosier Group) founded the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. He and his wife, Winifred Brady Adams, also a painter, lived and painted at The Hermitage in Brookville, Indiana along with T. C. Steele and his wife.

Together with William Forsyth, Adams also instructed American Impressionist artist Francis Focer Brown (1891–1971).

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Richard Edward Miller

Richard E. Miller (American, 1875 – 1943)

Summer Reverie

Landscape, Provincetown

Standing nude

Reclining Nude


Richard E. Miller (March 22, 1875 – January 23, 1943) was an American Impressionist painter and a member of the Giverny Colony of American Impressionists. Miller was primarily a figurative painter, known for his paintings of women posing languidly in interiors or outdoor settings. Miller grew up in St. Louis, studied in Paris, and then settled in Giverny. Upon his return to America, he settled briefly in Pasadena, California and then in the art colony of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he remained for the rest of his life. Miller was a member of the National Academy of Design in New York and an award winning painter in his era, honored in both France and Italy, and a winner of France's Legion of Honor. Over the past several decades, he has been the subject of a retrospective exhibition and his work has been reproduced extensively in exhibition catalogs and featured in a number of books on American Impressionism.
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Mary Cassatt, Red Poppies

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844 – 1926)

Red Poppies (1880)

Woman in a Lodge, c.1880

Autumn

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot.

The Ten: Frank Weston Benson

Frank W. Benson (American, 1862 – 1951) 

Summer (1900)

Benson, a leading member of the group of American painters known as “the Ten”, taught in both Boston and New York and occasionally offered studio critiques to students at Rhode Island School of Design. 
In this painting, the light-filled view represents Benson’s daughters and niece on the cliffs near the artist’s vacation home on North Haven Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Rendered with the brilliant palette and broken brushstrokes of French Impressionism, it is based on sketches and photographs that captured the poses of these confident young women, personifications of beauty and optimism on a perfect summer day.
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River Landscape, 1924

Head of a lady

Evening, 1925. Watercolor, gouache and graphite.

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American Impressionism: Hanson Puthuff (7*)

Hanson Puthuff (American Impressionist, 1875 - 1972)

Sespe Canyon, 1924

 Verdugo

Fragment - Superstition Mt.

 Drama of Light, Oil on Canvas. 24 x 30 in

 Basin Mountain

Morning at Montrose

Hanson Duvall Puthuff (August 21, 1875 – May 12, 1972) was a landscape painter and muralist, born in Waverly, Missouri. Puthuff studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to Colorado in 1889 to study at University of Denver Art School. He traveled to Los Angeles in 1903 and for 23 years worked as a commercial artist painting billboards while painting landscapes in his leisure. In 1926, he abandoned commercial art and devote full time to fine art and exhibitions. He is nationally famous for his lyric interpretations of the Southern California deserts. Puthuff died in Corona del Mar on May 12, 1972.

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American Impressionism

 E. Charlton Fortune (1885–1969)

E. Charlton Fortune, The Cabbage Patch, circa 1914

E. Charlton Fortune, Above the Bay, 1918

Drying Sails, 1926

Oil on canvas, 12.5 x 16 in

E. Charlton Fortune (1885–1969) was a famous California artist within the style of American Impressionism. Taught byWilliam Merritt Chase and Arthur Frank Mathews, she achieved international fame for her paintings. Later in life she turned to liturgical design, receiving further recognition in this second genre.

Everett Longley Warner

Everett Longley Warner (1877-1963) Panther Hollow, c. 1930

Oil on Canvas, 26 x 32 in

Philip Leslie Hale (1865–1931)

Philip Leslie Hale - Landscape about 1890

Philip Leslie Hale - Poppies

George Sotter (1879 - 1953) a Pennsylvania impressionist painter

 George Sotter

George Sotter - The Fog Evening, circa 1921

Robert Lewis Reid (1862 – 1929) 

The Yellow Flower (The Artist’s Wife in the Garden), 1908

 Breezy Day

Against the Sky, circa 1900

Charles Salis Kaelin

Gloucester Harbor, circa 1900-1929

Charles Salis Kaelin (1858, Cincinnati - 1929, Rockport, Massachusetts) was an American impressionist painter. He studied under John Henry Twachtman between 1876 and 1879, after which time he moved to New York City and joined the Art Students League of New York. In 1893 he returned to Cincinnati and worked as a designer for several lithography companies. He moved to Rockport, Massachusetts in 1916, where he painted landscapes and ships. His work is in the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum, where he exhibited regularly throughout his career.

Frederick Childe Hassam

Church Procession, Spanish Steps, 1883

Horticultural Building, World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

Promenade at Sunset, Paris (1888-1889)

Champs Elysées, Paris - Oil on canvas, 1889

A New York blizzard (1890)

Poppies on the Isles of Shoals, 1890

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Rainy Midnight, (1890s)

The Evening Star (1891)

Nocturne, Railway Crossing, Chicago (1893)

Winter Midnight, 1894

Late Afternoon, New York, Winter (1900)

Frederick Childe Hassam - Winter Afternoon in New York, 1900

One of Hassam’s more typically impressionistic works, this painting gives the viewer a pretty, appealing view of a New York street filtered through a sparkling winter storm. By this point, Impressionism was not considered radical; artists could go to schools set up to teach an impressionistic style of painting (such as William Merritt Chase’s summer art school in Shinnecock, Long Island), and it was becoming widely accepted as an academic style.



September Moonrise, 1900

Sand Springs Butte, 1904

October Haze, Manhattan, 1910

Sunset, Old Lyme, Connecticut (1911)
watercolor over pencil on paper 23.5 x 29.85 cm

The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate 1914

Mt. Beacon at Newburgh, 1916




The Fourth of July, 1916



Allies-Day May (1917)

Winter, Midnight



Gate of the Alhambra

The Avenue in the Rain

Moonlight

Nocturne, Hyde Park Corner

Apple Trees in Bloom, Old Lyme

Garden by the Sea, Isles of Shoals

Rainy Day on Fifth Avenue

The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate

Frederick Childe Hassam (October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935) was a prolific American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums. He produced over 3,000 paintings, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs over the course of his career, and was an influential American artist of the early 20th century.

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