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1826 Wayland, Massachusetts - 1881 Chelsea, Massachusetts. Known for: Sailing ship-coastal, structures.
Born outside Boston, Massachusetts, George Curtis remained in Boston from 1843-60 designing scenery for plays at the Boston Museum. In 1857 he and Minard Lewis designed scenery for a Boston... Read full biography
Born outside Boston, Massachusetts, George Curtis remained in Boston from 1843-60 designing scenery for plays at the Boston Museum. In 1857 he and Minard Lewis designed scenery for a Boston production of a play based on Kane's voyages in the Arctic, he also did the scenery for "The Drunkard". He... Read full biography
Born outside Boston, Massachusetts, George Curtis remained in Boston from 1843-60 designing scenery for plays at the Boston Museum. In 1857 he and Minard Lewis designed scenery for a Boston production of a play based on Kane's voyages in the Arctic, he also did the scenery for "The Drunkard". He traveled around the Northeast, Midwest (St. Louis, late 1830s), and to Europe. He began building his reputation in the 1860s as a luminist marine painter, often of Arctic subjects. He exhibited in... Read full biography
Born outside Boston, Massachusetts, George Curtis remained in Boston from 1843-60 designing scenery for plays at the Boston Museum. In 1857 he and Minard Lewis designed scenery for a Boston production of a play based on Kane's voyages in the Arctic, he also did the scenery for "The Drunkard". He traveled around the Northeast, Midwest (St. Louis, late 1830s), and to Europe. He began building his reputation in the 1860s as a luminist marine painter, often of Arctic subjects. He exhibited in Boston, whose harbors, shore lines and wharves were his inspiration. Influenced by other luminists such as Fitz Hugh Lane, he showed the transitional effects of light and atmosphere. In the latter part of his career, his interest shifted to the New York... Read full biography
Born outside Boston, Massachusetts, George Curtis remained in Boston from 1843-60 designing scenery for plays at the Boston Museum. In 1857 he and Minard Lewis designed scenery for a Boston production of a play based on Kane's voyages in the Arctic, he also did the scenery for "The Drunkard". He traveled around the Northeast, Midwest (St. Louis, late 1830s), and to Europe. He began building his reputation in the 1860s as a luminist marine painter, often of Arctic subjects. He exhibited in Boston, whose harbors, shore lines and wharves were his inspiration. Influenced by other luminists such as Fitz Hugh Lane, he showed the transitional effects of light and atmosphere. In the latter part of his career, his interest shifted to the New York area where he painted several ship portraits. He died at Chelsea, Massachusetts (1881). Sources include:. Groce and Wallac... Read full biography
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Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999Editor, Smith College Museum307 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesAt the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro)140 pages (color)The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III325 pages (color)The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pages