About Robert Ward Van Boskerck

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    Robert Ward Van Boskerck, 1855-1932, was an Impressionist landscape painter, who preferred quiet settled, setteled scenes drawn from his domestic and foreign travels. He was elected to the National Academy of Design, New York City, as an Associate in 1897, and an Academician in 1907. He exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, and other major museums

    He was an 1877 graduate of the Columbia University School of Mines. He received his artistic education from R. Swain Gifford and Alexander Wyant. During the early 1880s, he produced views of New Jersey and Long Island, and after that spent much time in Holland, France and England. He also painted in the Adirondack Mountains.

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