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Rex Slinkard BIOGRAPHY
1887 Blickwell, Indiana - 1918 New York City. Known for: Modernist figure painting, drawing.
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Born in Blickwell, Indiana, Rex Slinkard became a noted figure painter whose work ranged from the styles of social realism to symbolism. He studied at the Art Students League in New York with Robert... Read full biography
Born in Blickwell, Indiana, Rex Slinkard became a noted figure painter whose work ranged from the styles of social realism to symbolism. He studied at the Art Students League in New York with Robert Henri, and from 1910 to 1913 taught at the Art Students League in Los Angeles. There he was the most... Read full biography
Born in Blickwell, Indiana, Rex Slinkard became a noted figure painter whose work ranged from the styles of social realism to symbolism. He studied at the Art Students League in New York with Robert Henri, and from 1910 to 1913 taught at the Art Students League in Los Angeles. There he was the most progressive force in Los Angeles as a painter and teacher, and his life drawing classes were innovative in that they were the first on the West Coast to incorporate the methods of Henri. Later with... Read full biography
Born in Blickwell, Indiana, Rex Slinkard became a noted figure painter whose work ranged from the styles of social realism to symbolism. He studied at the Art Students League in New York with Robert Henri, and from 1910 to 1913 taught at the Art Students League in Los Angeles. There he was the most progressive force in Los Angeles as a painter and teacher, and his life drawing classes were innovative in that they were the first on the West Coast to incorporate the methods of Henri. Later with softly colored, brushed-looking figures, Slinkard developed his own personal form of symbolic modernism, intended to create mood rather than suggest any specific action. He revered the Italian Renaissance artists Botticelli and Giotto for the way they... Read full biography
Born in Blickwell, Indiana, Rex Slinkard became a noted figure painter whose work ranged from the styles of social realism to symbolism. He studied at the Art Students League in New York with Robert Henri, and from 1910 to 1913 taught at the Art Students League in Los Angeles. There he was the most progressive force in Los Angeles as a painter and teacher, and his life drawing classes were innovative in that they were the first on the West Coast to incorporate the methods of Henri. Later with softly colored, brushed-looking figures, Slinkard developed his own personal form of symbolic modernism, intended to create mood rather than suggest any specific action. He revered the Italian Renaissance artists Botticelli and Giotto for the way they treated figures. In his letters, which are now in the Stanford Museum, he recorded his feelings: "It's wonderful to work.&nb... Read full biography
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Born in Blickwell, Indiana, Rex Slinkard became a noted figure painter whose work ranged from the styles of social realism to symbolism. He studied at the Art Students League in New York with Robert Henri, and from 1910 to 1913 taught at the Art Students League in Los Angeles. There he was the most progressive force in Los Angeles as a painter and teacher, and his life drawing classes were innovative in that they were the first on the West Coast to incorporate the methods of Henri.
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