Born in Boston on 4 June 1865, Vesper George was trained at the Art Students League in New York (1888-89) then at the Académie Julian in Paris (1889-92), where his teachers were Jules-Joseph... Read full biography
Born in Boston on 4 June 1865, Vesper George was trained at the Art Students League in New York (1888-89) then at the Académie Julian in Paris (1889-92), where his teachers were Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Benjamin Constant, and Henri-Lucien Doucet. He apparently revisited the Boston area during the... Read full biography
Born in Boston on 4 June 1865, Vesper George was trained at the Art Students League in New York (1888-89) then at the Académie Julian in Paris (1889-92), where his teachers were Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Benjamin Constant, and Henri-Lucien Doucet. He apparently revisited the Boston area during the spring and summer of 1890 when he painted East Gloucester, which is a rare early landscape characterized by broad areas of color, still executed in a tonalist technique. Most of the canvas is reserved... Read full biography
Born in Boston on 4 June 1865, Vesper George was trained at the Art Students League in New York (1888-89) then at the Académie Julian in Paris (1889-92), where his teachers were Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Benjamin Constant, and Henri-Lucien Doucet. He apparently revisited the Boston area during the spring and summer of 1890 when he painted East Gloucester, which is a rare early landscape characterized by broad areas of color, still executed in a tonalist technique. Most of the canvas is reserved for water, while a small strip of land appears above. Most striking is the bold indication of reflections on the water's surface. Helen M. Knowlton, the biographer and student of William Morris Hunt, reported in The Studio that summer on the... Read full biography
Born in Boston on 4 June 1865, Vesper George was trained at the Art Students League in New York (1888-89) then at the Académie Julian in Paris (1889-92), where his teachers were Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Benjamin Constant, and Henri-Lucien Doucet. He apparently revisited the Boston area during the spring and summer of 1890 when he painted East Gloucester, which is a rare early landscape characterized by broad areas of color, still executed in a tonalist technique. Most of the canvas is reserved for water, while a small strip of land appears above. Most striking is the bold indication of reflections on the water's surface. Helen M. Knowlton, the biographer and student of William Morris Hunt, reported in The Studio that summer on the thirty-some artists who were active in Cape Ann. William Lamb Picknell (1853-1897), who had painted in Brittany, was the lea... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (12)
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Reflections II: Watercolors of Florida 1835-2000
2012
Libby, Gary R.
360 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
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
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
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Artists of the Rockport Art Association, 1980: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition
1980
Lippincott, Miriam, editor
0 pages
American Painters Of the Impressionist Period Rediscovered
1975
Weber, Nicholas Fox
104 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index