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1892 Erie, Pennsylvania - 1980 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Known for: Regionalist and abstract painting.
A painter of American landscapes and an art teacher in New York City and Minneapolis, Cameron Booth painted in both realist or post-impressionist styles as and abstract styles including Cubism. Late... Read full biography
A painter of American landscapes and an art teacher in New York City and Minneapolis, Cameron Booth painted in both realist or post-impressionist styles as and abstract styles including Cubism. Late in his career he adopted Abstract Expressionism including gestural techniques. Many of his realist... Read full biography
A painter of American landscapes and an art teacher in New York City and Minneapolis, Cameron Booth painted in both realist or post-impressionist styles as and abstract styles including Cubism. Late in his career he adopted Abstract Expressionism including gestural techniques. Many of his realist paintings of rural Minnesota make him part of the American Scene movement with his depictions of iron mining towns, struggling farmers, Indian reservations and other hard-living conditions is Minnesota... Read full biography
A painter of American landscapes and an art teacher in New York City and Minneapolis, Cameron Booth painted in both realist or post-impressionist styles as and abstract styles including Cubism. Late in his career he adopted Abstract Expressionism including gestural techniques. Many of his realist paintings of rural Minnesota make him part of the American Scene movement with his depictions of iron mining towns, struggling farmers, Indian reservations and other hard-living conditions is Minnesota during the 1930s. He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and studied at the Art Students League of Chicago, with Andre L'hote in Paris, and Hans Hofmann in Munich. From 1944 to 1948 and 1948 to 1954, he taught at The Art Students League in New York City... Read full biography
A painter of American landscapes and an art teacher in New York City and Minneapolis, Cameron Booth painted in both realist or post-impressionist styles as and abstract styles including Cubism. Late in his career he adopted Abstract Expressionism including gestural techniques. Many of his realist paintings of rural Minnesota make him part of the American Scene movement with his depictions of iron mining towns, struggling farmers, Indian reservations and other hard-living conditions is Minnesota during the 1930s. He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and studied at the Art Students League of Chicago, with Andre L'hote in Paris, and Hans Hofmann in Munich. From 1944 to 1948 and 1948 to 1954, he taught at The Art Students League in New York City and from 1948 to 1960 at the Minneapolis School of art, which became the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.... Read full biography
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Keywords (41)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Cubism, Cubist
- •Gestural/ Action /Drip/Poured Painting
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •American Scene
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Non Objective Subject
- •Regionalism, Local Scene
- •Rural Scene, Countryside, Farms and/or Barns
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
Art Teacher
- •Andre Lhote
- •Hans Hofmann
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Teacher
- •Minneapolis School of Fine Art/College Art & Design, Teacher
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
- •St. Paul School of Fine Arts, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Bakkom Photo Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota (2)
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts