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Louis George Bouche BIOGRAPHY
1896 New York City - 1969 Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Known for: Genre, landscape, still-life and mural painting.
A long-time teacher at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1934 to 1969, he was a painter of realistic genre city scenes. He also directed the Belmaison Gallery in New York where he showed... Read full biography
A long-time teacher at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1934 to 1969, he was a painter of realistic genre city scenes. He also directed the Belmaison Gallery in New York where he showed work by emerging French and American artists. He was born in New York and studied with Frank... Read full biography
A long-time teacher at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1934 to 1969, he was a painter of realistic genre city scenes. He also directed the Belmaison Gallery in New York where he showed work by emerging French and American artists. He was born in New York and studied with Frank DuMond, Richard Miller and Luis Mora at the Art Students League and with Jean Paul Laurens in Paris. Returning to New York, he had a highly successful career depicting life around him. Bouche's father was... Read full biography
A long-time teacher at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1934 to 1969, he was a painter of realistic genre city scenes. He also directed the Belmaison Gallery in New York where he showed work by emerging French and American artists. He was born in New York and studied with Frank DuMond, Richard Miller and Luis Mora at the Art Students League and with Jean Paul Laurens in Paris. Returning to New York, he had a highly successful career depicting life around him. Bouche's father was also a painter. Working with Stanford White, Louis did designs for palatial homes of the Astors and Carnegies and planned the decorations for New York's Hotel Plaza. When the Pennsylvania Railroad wanted an artist to paint murals for its new... Read full biography
A long-time teacher at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1934 to 1969, he was a painter of realistic genre city scenes. He also directed the Belmaison Gallery in New York where he showed work by emerging French and American artists. He was born in New York and studied with Frank DuMond, Richard Miller and Luis Mora at the Art Students League and with Jean Paul Laurens in Paris. Returning to New York, he had a highly successful career depicting life around him. Bouche's father was also a painter. Working with Stanford White, Louis did designs for palatial homes of the Astors and Carnegies and planned the decorations for New York's Hotel Plaza. When the Pennsylvania Railroad wanted an artist to paint murals for its new streamlined club cars a generation later, the choice fell logically on Louis Bouche. Because he enj... Read full biography
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A long-time teacher at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1934 to 1969, he was a painter of realistic genre city scenes. He also directed the Belmaison Gallery in New York where he showed work by emerging French and American artists.
He was born in New York and studied with Frank DuMond, Richard Miller and Luis Mora at the Art Students League and with Jean Paul Laurens in Paris. Returning to New York, he had a highly successful career depicting life around him. Bouche's father was also a painter.
Working with Stanford White, Louis did designs for palatial homes of the Astors and Carnegies and planned the decorations for New York's Hotel Plaza. When the Pennsylvania Railroad wa...But wait, there's more...
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