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1858 Rouses Point, New York - 1930 Springfield, Massachusetts. Known for: Trompe fruit still life, town-landscape.
Jonas Joseph LaValley was born in 1858 at Rouses Point, New York. He spent his youth on the family farm in New York, later in the cotton mills of Chicopee, Massachusetts, and then as a professional... Read full biography
Jonas Joseph LaValley was born in 1858 at Rouses Point, New York. He spent his youth on the family farm in New York, later in the cotton mills of Chicopee, Massachusetts, and then as a professional barber in Springfield, MA. He started his art career part time in the rear of the barber shop he... Read full biography
Jonas Joseph LaValley was born in 1858 at Rouses Point, New York. He spent his youth on the family farm in New York, later in the cotton mills of Chicopee, Massachusetts, and then as a professional barber in Springfield, MA. He started his art career part time in the rear of the barber shop he shared with his brother William, sketching in pencil and pastel and slowly turning to oils, predominantly still-life subjects. By 1899 he opened a studio on Main Street in Springfield, and devoted himself... Read full biography
Jonas Joseph LaValley was born in 1858 at Rouses Point, New York. He spent his youth on the family farm in New York, later in the cotton mills of Chicopee, Massachusetts, and then as a professional barber in Springfield, MA. He started his art career part time in the rear of the barber shop he shared with his brother William, sketching in pencil and pastel and slowly turning to oils, predominantly still-life subjects. By 1899 he opened a studio on Main Street in Springfield, and devoted himself to painting exclusively. LaValley studied with Willis Seaver Adams, Edmund Case and George Newell Bowers. LaValley enjoyed success selling paintings in Boston, New York and Springfield, and purchased a home in Westfield, MA at the base of Mount... Read full biography
Jonas Joseph LaValley was born in 1858 at Rouses Point, New York. He spent his youth on the family farm in New York, later in the cotton mills of Chicopee, Massachusetts, and then as a professional barber in Springfield, MA. He started his art career part time in the rear of the barber shop he shared with his brother William, sketching in pencil and pastel and slowly turning to oils, predominantly still-life subjects. By 1899 he opened a studio on Main Street in Springfield, and devoted himself to painting exclusively. LaValley studied with Willis Seaver Adams, Edmund Case and George Newell Bowers. LaValley enjoyed success selling paintings in Boston, New York and Springfield, and purchased a home in Westfield, MA at the base of Mount Tekoa. He spent his summers painting landscapes, and winters painting still lifes. Jonas was a co-founder of the Springfield... Read full biography
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Keywords (28)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
Art Style
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
- •Trompe l'oeil
Art Subject
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •Rockport Art Association-
Art Teacher
- •Philip Lesley Hale
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Still Life Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Rockport Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts