About Edmund Case

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    Edmund Elisha Case, 1844-1919, lived in the Springfield, Massachusetts area most of his life, and painted mainly in New England, from Cape Ann to the Berkshires. Like William Merritt Post in Connecticut, he was especially taken with warm and colorful autumn landscapes, and works of his mature years became quite appealingly Impressionist in their freedom of brushwork and palette.

    Case was born in Suffield, Connecticut, and orphaned at an early age, he was raised in Springfield, Massachusetts by his guardian, Mr. Gleason. Case enlisted in the Navy during the Civil War, but his ship was captured at Stony Inlet, South Carolina, and he was held at Libby Prison for several months before being exchanged back north.

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