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Gilbert Gaul BIOGRAPHY
1855 Jersey City, New Jersey - 1919 New York City. Known for: Frontier-war genre and landscape painting.
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Gilbert Gaul became a painter of highly realistic western scenes showing interaction between Caucasian people and Indians. He attended schools in Newark, New Jersey... Read full biography
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Gilbert Gaul became a painter of highly realistic western scenes showing interaction between Caucasian people and Indians. He attended schools in Newark, New Jersey and the Claverack Military Academy, but ill health prevented him from pursuing a naval career. In the... Read full biography
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Gilbert Gaul became a painter of highly realistic western scenes showing interaction between Caucasian people and Indians. He attended schools in Newark, New Jersey and the Claverack Military Academy, but ill health prevented him from pursuing a naval career. In the 1870s, he began the study of art, enrolling in New York at the National Academy of Design where he studied with Lemuel Wilmarth and at the Art Students League with John George Brown. In 1882, he was... Read full biography
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Gilbert Gaul became a painter of highly realistic western scenes showing interaction between Caucasian people and Indians. He attended schools in Newark, New Jersey and the Claverack Military Academy, but ill health prevented him from pursuing a naval career. In the 1870s, he began the study of art, enrolling in New York at the National Academy of Design where he studied with Lemuel Wilmarth and at the Art Students League with John George Brown. In 1882, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Design. He spent four years in Van Buren, Tennessee, painting Civil War depictions and rural genre and then worked as an illustrator for several magazines including Harper's Monthly. Numerous times from... Read full biography
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Gilbert Gaul became a painter of highly realistic western scenes showing interaction between Caucasian people and Indians. He attended schools in Newark, New Jersey and the Claverack Military Academy, but ill health prevented him from pursuing a naval career. In the 1870s, he began the study of art, enrolling in New York at the National Academy of Design where he studied with Lemuel Wilmarth and at the Art Students League with John George Brown. In 1882, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Design. He spent four years in Van Buren, Tennessee, painting Civil War depictions and rural genre and then worked as an illustrator for several magazines including Harper's Monthly. Numerous times from 1876 he traveled in the West, living on Army posts and with Indian tribes and recording the various li... Read full biography
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Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Gilbert Gaul became a painter of highly realistic western scenes showing interaction between Caucasian people and Indians.
He attended schools in Newark, New Jersey and the Claverack Military Academy, but ill health prevented him from pursuing a naval career. In the 1870s, he began the study of art, enrolling in New York at the National Academy of Design where he studied with Lemuel Wilmarth and at the Art Students League with John George Brown. In 1882, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Design.
He spent four years in Van Buren, Tennessee, painting Civil War depictions and rural genre and then worked as an illustrator for several magazines including Har...But wait, there's more...
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