Lucien Abrams was a landscape, portrait, and still life painter as well as an architect. He was also a member of the Old Lyme Colony*, in Old Lyme, Connecticut where he arrived in 1915 when he was... Read full biography
Lucien Abrams was a landscape, portrait, and still life painter as well as an architect. He was also a member of the Old Lyme Colony*, in Old Lyme, Connecticut where he arrived in 1915 when he was age forty-five and already an established landscape painter. Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Abrams was from... Read full biography
Lucien Abrams was a landscape, portrait, and still life painter as well as an architect. He was also a member of the Old Lyme Colony*, in Old Lyme, Connecticut where he arrived in 1915 when he was age forty-five and already an established landscape painter. Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Abrams was from a wealthy family and traveled abroad extensively as a young man. In 1873, he moved to Texas with his family, and he attended schools in Dallas. He graduated in 1892 from Princeton University with a... Read full biography
Lucien Abrams was a landscape, portrait, and still life painter as well as an architect. He was also a member of the Old Lyme Colony*, in Old Lyme, Connecticut where he arrived in 1915 when he was age forty-five and already an established landscape painter. Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Abrams was from a wealthy family and traveled abroad extensively as a young man. In 1873, he moved to Texas with his family, and he attended schools in Dallas. He graduated in 1892 from Princeton University with a degree in art and architecture and then went to New York where he attended the Art Students League*. In 1894, he went to Europe where he studied at the Academy Julian* with Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant and began his life-long passion of... Read full biography
Lucien Abrams was a landscape, portrait, and still life painter as well as an architect. He was also a member of the Old Lyme Colony*, in Old Lyme, Connecticut where he arrived in 1915 when he was age forty-five and already an established landscape painter. Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Abrams was from a wealthy family and traveled abroad extensively as a young man. In 1873, he moved to Texas with his family, and he attended schools in Dallas. He graduated in 1892 from Princeton University with a degree in art and architecture and then went to New York where he attended the Art Students League*. In 1894, he went to Europe where he studied at the Academy Julian* with Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant and began his life-long passion of collecting the paintings of Auguste Renoir. Upon his death, Abrams bequeathed his Renoir collection to the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum in San A... Read full biography
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About Lucien Abrams: Books
Books & Publications (23)
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists, English Version and Online (Fourteen Volumes)
2006
Benezit, E
0 pages
Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945
2006
Craig, Susan (Compiler)
0 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942
2000
Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward
606 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945
1999
Grauer, Paula and Michael R.
240 pages (color)
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Handbook of the Collections: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University)
1981
Leavitt, Thomas W. (Editor)
106 pages
Connecticut and American Impressionism (William Benton Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Spencer, Harold; Susan Larkin, Jeffrey Andersen (Essays)
184 pages (color)
Three American Impressionists: From Paris to Old Lyme (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Editor, A.M. Adler Fine Art
0 pages (color)
Texas Painting and Sculpture: 20th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Bywaters, Jerry (Introduction)
96 pages
The Art Colony at Old Lyme 1900-3 (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Connecticut College for Women
67 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index