Co-founder of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the New York School of Fine Arts, Rae Bredin was a Pennsylvania by birth and remained there most of his life. He was known for his... Read full biography
Co-founder of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the New York School of Fine Arts, Rae Bredin was a Pennsylvania by birth and remained there most of his life. He was known for his landscape and portrait paintings and especially for his association with the New Hope Impressionist... Read full biography
Co-founder of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the New York School of Fine Arts, Rae Bredin was a Pennsylvania by birth and remained there most of his life. He was known for his landscape and portrait paintings and especially for his association with the New Hope Impressionist painters, an area he first visited in 1909. (In 1915, the artist and critic Guy Péne du Bois had characterized Pennsylvania Impressionist painting as America's "first truly national expression"). Bredin was... Read full biography
Co-founder of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the New York School of Fine Arts, Rae Bredin was a Pennsylvania by birth and remained there most of his life. He was known for his landscape and portrait paintings and especially for his association with the New Hope Impressionist painters, an area he first visited in 1909. (In 1915, the artist and critic Guy Péne du Bois had characterized Pennsylvania Impressionist painting as America's "first truly national expression"). Bredin was commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, to paint a portrait of Dr. Seneca Egbert, professor of hygiene at the medical school there. He taught at the Chase School of Fine Art, Shinnecock, Long Island, New York; the Pennsylvania... Read full biography
Co-founder of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the New York School of Fine Arts, Rae Bredin was a Pennsylvania by birth and remained there most of his life. He was known for his landscape and portrait paintings and especially for his association with the New Hope Impressionist painters, an area he first visited in 1909. (In 1915, the artist and critic Guy Péne du Bois had characterized Pennsylvania Impressionist painting as America's "first truly national expression"). Bredin was commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, to paint a portrait of Dr. Seneca Egbert, professor of hygiene at the medical school there. He taught at the Chase School of Fine Art, Shinnecock, Long Island, New York; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and the School of Design for Women, Philad... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (26)
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New Hope for American Art A Comprehensive Showing of Important 20th Century Paintings from and Surrounding the New Hope Art Colony
2005
Alterman, James M.
612 pages (color)
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
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Pennsylvania Impressionism
2002
Gerdts, William; Brian H. Peterson & Yount
340 pages (color)
Thomas Eakins and His Fellow Artists at the Philadelphia Sketch Club (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Sellin, David; Mark Sullivan
52 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Pennsylvania Impressionists
1997
Folk, Thomas C; James A. Michener (Foreward)
140 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
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Transformations 1885-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Preato, Robert R.; Dr. Sandra L. Langer
104 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Folk, Thomas
95 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Students of William Merritt Chase (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Pisano, Ronald J
44 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Who's Who in American Art American Art Annual, 1933