About H Boylston Dummer

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    H. BOYLSTON DUMMER

    On 19 October 1878, when Dummer was born (in Rowley, Massachusetts), American painters had just exhibited traditional, Salon-style paintings at the Paris Universal Exposition. The most progressive works on display were those by Winslow Homer, George Inness and John La Farge as the American discovery of Giverny was still a decade away. But when Dummer turned twenty, the group of impressionists known as the Ten opened their first exhibition. Dummer could have studied with John Carlson as early as 1906, when the latter was appointed the assistant of Birge Harrison at the Art Students League Summer School at Woodstock. He also took lessons from Eric Pape and George L. Noyes. Meanwhile, Dum...

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