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1854 Santa Barbara, California - 1935 Oberlin, Louisiana. Known for: Coastal scene, marine, and figure painting.
A watercolorist, who specialized in coastal scenes, George Henry Clements grew up on his family's plantation near Opelousas, Louisiana, and worked as a clerk for the New Orleans Cotton Exchange... Read full biography
A watercolorist, who specialized in coastal scenes, George Henry Clements grew up on his family's plantation near Opelousas, Louisiana, and worked as a clerk for the New Orleans Cotton Exchange before turning to painting in 1880. He began his formal art training at the Union Art League in New York... Read full biography
A watercolorist, who specialized in coastal scenes, George Henry Clements grew up on his family's plantation near Opelousas, Louisiana, and worked as a clerk for the New Orleans Cotton Exchange before turning to painting in 1880. He began his formal art training at the Union Art League in New York City. By 1881 he was in Paris. He spent a year at the Academie Julian and another at the Academie Colarossi. Clements also painted in the French countryside, and in Switzerland and Italy. He returned... Read full biography
A watercolorist, who specialized in coastal scenes, George Henry Clements grew up on his family's plantation near Opelousas, Louisiana, and worked as a clerk for the New Orleans Cotton Exchange before turning to painting in 1880. He began his formal art training at the Union Art League in New York City. By 1881 he was in Paris. He spent a year at the Academie Julian and another at the Academie Colarossi. Clements also painted in the French countryside, and in Switzerland and Italy. He returned to America in 1887 and opened a studio in Boston. After the turn of the century, he settled in New York City, returning frequently to the South to find landscape subjects in the Carolinas, and the coastal regions of Louisiana, Mississippi and... Read full biography
A watercolorist, who specialized in coastal scenes, George Henry Clements grew up on his family's plantation near Opelousas, Louisiana, and worked as a clerk for the New Orleans Cotton Exchange before turning to painting in 1880. He began his formal art training at the Union Art League in New York City. By 1881 he was in Paris. He spent a year at the Academie Julian and another at the Academie Colarossi. Clements also painted in the French countryside, and in Switzerland and Italy. He returned to America in 1887 and opened a studio in Boston. After the turn of the century, he settled in New York City, returning frequently to the South to find landscape subjects in the Carolinas, and the coastal regions of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Until about 1890, Clements' subjects were primarily portraits, and narrative and figure paintings. During the decade, he... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Ink
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Narrative, Story Telling
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Waterscapes: Canals, Lakes, Rivers, Oceans
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
- •Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- •Catalina Island
- •Europe
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •New York Water Color Club, Society-
- •Salmagundi Club, New York City
- •Santa Barbara Art Association
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •Academy Colarossi, Paris, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Genre Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
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