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1857 Church Hill, Mississippi - 1916. Known for: Impressionist painting, pastoral scenes and flower gardens.
Gaines Ruger Donoho was born in Mississippi in December 1857. He early encountered the tragedy of life in general, and the Civil War in particular, when his father was killed, and he and his mother... Read full biography
Gaines Ruger Donoho was born in Mississippi in December 1857. He early encountered the tragedy of life in general, and the Civil War in particular, when his father was killed, and he and his mother were moved to Vicksburg by General Ruger's Confederate cavalry. The General was his mother's... Read full biography
Gaines Ruger Donoho was born in Mississippi in December 1857. He early encountered the tragedy of life in general, and the Civil War in particular, when his father was killed, and he and his mother were moved to Vicksburg by General Ruger's Confederate cavalry. The General was his mother's relative. Donoho and his mother later went to Washington, D.C. where the young artist began to paint and study with area teachers. His interests tended to the Hudson River School painter Jervis McEntee. After... Read full biography
Gaines Ruger Donoho was born in Mississippi in December 1857. He early encountered the tragedy of life in general, and the Civil War in particular, when his father was killed, and he and his mother were moved to Vicksburg by General Ruger's Confederate cavalry. The General was his mother's relative. Donoho and his mother later went to Washington, D.C. where the young artist began to paint and study with area teachers. His interests tended to the Hudson River School painter Jervis McEntee. After brief study at the Art Students League, New York City, in 1878, Donoho went to Paris, and the Academie Julian. He remained abroad until 1887, exhibiting regularly at the Paris Salon, and getting to know fellow American artists John Henry Twachtman,... Read full biography
Gaines Ruger Donoho was born in Mississippi in December 1857. He early encountered the tragedy of life in general, and the Civil War in particular, when his father was killed, and he and his mother were moved to Vicksburg by General Ruger's Confederate cavalry. The General was his mother's relative. Donoho and his mother later went to Washington, D.C. where the young artist began to paint and study with area teachers. His interests tended to the Hudson River School painter Jervis McEntee. After brief study at the Art Students League, New York City, in 1878, Donoho went to Paris, and the Academie Julian. He remained abroad until 1887, exhibiting regularly at the Paris Salon, and getting to know fellow American artists John Henry Twachtman, Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, and Childe Hassam, when the latter arrived in 1886. Hassam would describe one of Donoho's paintings as "probably t... Read full biography
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Keywords (49)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Ink
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Barbizon, France
- •Europe
- •Long Island, New York
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Washington DC Before 1900
Art Teacher
- •Gustave Boulanger
- •Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
- •Tony Robert-Fleury
- •William Bouguereau
- •William Merritt Chase
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Shinnecock Summer School, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Animal Specialty
Artist Colony
- •Grez-sur-Loing, France
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •MacBeth Gallery, New York City
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Special Venue, Art Parks
- •Armory Show 1913, New York
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts