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1864 Washington District Of Columbia - 1950 Boston, Massachusetts. Known for: Portrait, figure, and still life paintings.
Born in Washington, DC in 1864, the under-researched artist Ernest L. Major immersed himself into the Boston milieu that orbited around Edmund Tarbell and Frank W. Benson. E. C. Messer was Major's... Read full biography
Born in Washington, DC in 1864, the under-researched artist Ernest L. Major immersed himself into the Boston milieu that orbited around Edmund Tarbell and Frank W. Benson. E. C. Messer was Major's first instructor at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and by the early 1880s, he was studying under William... Read full biography
Born in Washington, DC in 1864, the under-researched artist Ernest L. Major immersed himself into the Boston milieu that orbited around Edmund Tarbell and Frank W. Benson. E. C. Messer was Major's first instructor at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and by the early 1880s, he was studying under William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League in New York City. At the age of twenty-one, Major was the first to win the Hallgarten Art Scholarship, which at that time included travel expenses for study in... Read full biography
Born in Washington, DC in 1864, the under-researched artist Ernest L. Major immersed himself into the Boston milieu that orbited around Edmund Tarbell and Frank W. Benson. E. C. Messer was Major's first instructor at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and by the early 1880s, he was studying under William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League in New York City. At the age of twenty-one, Major was the first to win the Hallgarten Art Scholarship, which at that time included travel expenses for study in Europe ("Correspondence," The Studio, 1885, p. 132). Major joined the burgeoning ranks of American expatriate artists, most of whom were trained at the Académie Julian in Paris, and he was one of the many American students of Boulanger and Lefebvre.... Read full biography
Born in Washington, DC in 1864, the under-researched artist Ernest L. Major immersed himself into the Boston milieu that orbited around Edmund Tarbell and Frank W. Benson. E. C. Messer was Major's first instructor at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and by the early 1880s, he was studying under William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League in New York City. At the age of twenty-one, Major was the first to win the Hallgarten Art Scholarship, which at that time included travel expenses for study in Europe ("Correspondence," The Studio, 1885, p. 132). Major joined the burgeoning ranks of American expatriate artists, most of whom were trained at the Académie Julian in Paris, and he was one of the many American students of Boulanger and Lefebvre. Quite serious about becoming a self-supporting professional painter, Major made his debut in 1886 when he exhibited a landscap... Read full biography
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Keywords (51)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Chalk
- •Charcoal
- •Oil Paint
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
Art Style
- •Boston School of Painting
- •Classical Realist
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Interior Scenes
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Boston Before 1900
- •Europe
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •Boston Art Club
Art Teacher
- •Edmund Tarbell
- •Gustave Boulanger
- •Joseph DeCamp
- •Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
- •William Merritt Chase
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Cowles Art School, Boston, Teacher
- •Massachusetts School of Art, Teacher
- •School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
- •Julius Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Portrait Specialty
- •Still Life Specialty
- •Studio at Fenway Studio Building, Boston
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts