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1841 Pooleville, Maryland - 1912 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Known for: Luminous landscape, portrait and still life painting.
Another of the second generation of Scalp Level artists, Eugene Poole came to Pittsburgh via Baltimore in 1887. Before that, he had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia,... Read full biography
Another of the second generation of Scalp Level artists, Eugene Poole came to Pittsburgh via Baltimore in 1887. Before that, he had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Settling in his home state of Maryland upon his return,... Read full biography
Another of the second generation of Scalp Level artists, Eugene Poole came to Pittsburgh via Baltimore in 1887. Before that, he had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Settling in his home state of Maryland upon his return, Poole found success as a portrait painter, most notably rendering a rare from-life image of General Robert E. Lee in the aftermath of the South's defeat in the Civil War. It was only after his... Read full biography
Another of the second generation of Scalp Level artists, Eugene Poole came to Pittsburgh via Baltimore in 1887. Before that, he had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Settling in his home state of Maryland upon his return, Poole found success as a portrait painter, most notably rendering a rare from-life image of General Robert E. Lee in the aftermath of the South's defeat in the Civil War. It was only after his arrival in Pittsburgh, though, that he turned his attention to landscape, becoming particularly well known for his luminescent autumn scenes. In that regard, he is similar to the Hudson River School painter Jasper Cropsey, although his more painterly... Read full biography
Another of the second generation of Scalp Level artists, Eugene Poole came to Pittsburgh via Baltimore in 1887. Before that, he had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Settling in his home state of Maryland upon his return, Poole found success as a portrait painter, most notably rendering a rare from-life image of General Robert E. Lee in the aftermath of the South's defeat in the Civil War. It was only after his arrival in Pittsburgh, though, that he turned his attention to landscape, becoming particularly well known for his luminescent autumn scenes. In that regard, he is similar to the Hudson River School painter Jasper Cropsey, although his more painterly brushstroke is more reminiscent of George Inness. This close association with autumnal paintings was noted in the American Art News 1... Read full biography
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Keywords (21)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Portraits: Notables, Society, Celebrity, Historical and/or Royalty
- •Seasonal Landscape
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Hudson River Valley, New York
Art Association
- •Mystic Art Association
- •Society of Washington Artists (DC)
Art School
- •Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Artist Colony
- •Scalp Level, Pennsylvania
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Mystic Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Society of Washington Artists, DC
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC