Credited with introducing the tradition of European landscape painting, especially that of the Barbizon School, to the Louisiana landscape during the late 19th century, Richard Clague was both a... Read full biography
Credited with introducing the tradition of European landscape painting, especially that of the Barbizon School, to the Louisiana landscape during the late 19th century, Richard Clague was both a teacher and mentor to a group of New Orleans artists that included William Buck Marshall Smith and... Read full biography
Credited with introducing the tradition of European landscape painting, especially that of the Barbizon School, to the Louisiana landscape during the late 19th century, Richard Clague was both a teacher and mentor to a group of New Orleans artists that included William Buck Marshall Smith and Charles Giroux. They were called the Bayou School of Painting, and they recorded in a "monumental and precise manner the distinctive Spanish moss and hazy atmosphere of the bayou region." (Falk) Clague's... Read full biography
Credited with introducing the tradition of European landscape painting, especially that of the Barbizon School, to the Louisiana landscape during the late 19th century, Richard Clague was both a teacher and mentor to a group of New Orleans artists that included William Buck Marshall Smith and Charles Giroux. They were called the Bayou School of Painting, and they recorded in a "monumental and precise manner the distinctive Spanish moss and hazy atmosphere of the bayou region." (Falk) Clague's landscapes were the first to depict successfully the character of the Delta and characteristically included hunting camps, trappers' cabins and boats on sluggish streams. He was born Paris, France to a wealthy New Orleans family that sent him to... Read full biography
Credited with introducing the tradition of European landscape painting, especially that of the Barbizon School, to the Louisiana landscape during the late 19th century, Richard Clague was both a teacher and mentor to a group of New Orleans artists that included William Buck Marshall Smith and Charles Giroux. They were called the Bayou School of Painting, and they recorded in a "monumental and precise manner the distinctive Spanish moss and hazy atmosphere of the bayou region." (Falk) Clague's landscapes were the first to depict successfully the character of the Delta and characteristically included hunting camps, trappers' cabins and boats on sluggish streams. He was born Paris, France to a wealthy New Orleans family that sent him to Switzerland to school where he studied with Jean Charles Ferdinand Humbert in Geneva. Subsequently he studied with Leon Pomarade, a painter and mural... Read full biography
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About Richard Clague: Books
Books & Publications (19)
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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
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
Downriver Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting 1800-1950
1991
Pennington, Estill Curtis
208 pages (color)
The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers
1991
Weinberg, H Barbara
295 pages (color)
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Look Away: Reality and Sentiment in Southern Art
1989
Pennington, Estill Curtis
200 pages (color)
Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918
1987
Mahe, John A. II; Rosanne McCaffrey (Editors)
464 pages
The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Wilmerding, John
104 pages
Painting in the South: 1564-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Virginia Museum, Richmond
362 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Beyond the Endless River W American Drawings, W/C-19th Cen (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Ballinger, James K
182 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Richard Clague 1801-1873 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Toledano, Roulhac
128 pages (color)
The Louisiana Landscape 1800-1969
1969
Anglo-American Art Museum
48 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index