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1864 Arlington, New Jersey - 1941 New York City. Known for: Cavorting nudes and landscape painting.
Louis Eilshemius was born to wealthy and socially prominent immigrant parents near Newark, New Jersey. His earliest paintings, reflecting the influence of Corot and Inness, placed him well within the... Read full biography
Louis Eilshemius was born to wealthy and socially prominent immigrant parents near Newark, New Jersey. His earliest paintings, reflecting the influence of Corot and Inness, placed him well within the context of contemporary American art. He had his work accepted by the National Academy of Design in... Read full biography
Louis Eilshemius was born to wealthy and socially prominent immigrant parents near Newark, New Jersey. His earliest paintings, reflecting the influence of Corot and Inness, placed him well within the context of contemporary American art. He had his work accepted by the National Academy of Design in 1887 and 1888. He seemed destined for glittering success. This official recognition, apparently so promising, had to sustain him for the remainder of his active career. His subsequent entries were... Read full biography
Louis Eilshemius was born to wealthy and socially prominent immigrant parents near Newark, New Jersey. His earliest paintings, reflecting the influence of Corot and Inness, placed him well within the context of contemporary American art. He had his work accepted by the National Academy of Design in 1887 and 1888. He seemed destined for glittering success. This official recognition, apparently so promising, had to sustain him for the remainder of his active career. His subsequent entries were rejected, and he continued to work for three decades without further encouragement. The involuntary isolation ultimately destroyed him. What queered his career was a strain of fantasy; he introduced into his atmospheric pictures incidents of a naive... Read full biography
Louis Eilshemius was born to wealthy and socially prominent immigrant parents near Newark, New Jersey. His earliest paintings, reflecting the influence of Corot and Inness, placed him well within the context of contemporary American art. He had his work accepted by the National Academy of Design in 1887 and 1888. He seemed destined for glittering success. This official recognition, apparently so promising, had to sustain him for the remainder of his active career. His subsequent entries were rejected, and he continued to work for three decades without further encouragement. The involuntary isolation ultimately destroyed him. What queered his career was a strain of fantasy; he introduced into his atmospheric pictures incidents of a naive sort - lubricious, melodramatic, somewhat wooden. People laughed at them and eventually,... Read full biography
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Keywords (54)
Art Method
- •Craftsperson, Handicrafts
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
- •Chalk
- •Colored Pencil
- •Ink
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Folk Art, Naive, Primitive
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Naive, Childlike, Intuitive
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Mythology, Legends
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Adirondack Mountains
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •Europe
- •Hudson River Valley, New York
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Southern California Before 1900
Art Association
- •American Federation of Arts
- •Salmagundi Club, New York City
- •Salons of America
- •Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
- •William Bouguereau
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Bakkom Photo Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota (2)
- •Green-Wood Cemetery Collection
- •The Marshall Collection
Added Description
- •LIFE Magazine Featured Artist
- •Marine Before 1900
- •Nude Figure Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Salons of America-
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts