Cape Ann Museum
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Museums page for Hugh Henry Breckenridge ((1870 - 1937)), known for Modernist-leaning landscape, portrait and abstract painting. Showing 8 museum collections and exhibitions.
Hugh Henry Breckenridge MUSEUMS
1870 Leesburg, Virginia - 1937 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known for: Modernist-leaning landscape, portrait and abstract painting.
The following biography, submitted November 2002, is from Marian Clark of Colorado. She is a great-grand daughter of the artist. Hugh Henry Breckenridge was long associated with Philadelphia as a... Read full biography
The following biography, submitted November 2002, is from Marian Clark of Colorado. She is a great-grand daughter of the artist. Hugh Henry Breckenridge was long associated with Philadelphia as a modernist painter and teacher. From 1887 to 1892, he was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the... Read full biography
The following biography, submitted November 2002, is from Marian Clark of Colorado. She is a great-grand daughter of the artist. Hugh Henry Breckenridge was long associated with Philadelphia as a modernist painter and teacher. From 1887 to 1892, he was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he taught for more than forty years. In 1892, he was awarded a scholarship enabling him to study in Paris at the Academie Julian with William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) and to... Read full biography
The following biography, submitted November 2002, is from Marian Clark of Colorado. She is a great-grand daughter of the artist. Hugh Henry Breckenridge was long associated with Philadelphia as a modernist painter and teacher. From 1887 to 1892, he was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he taught for more than forty years. In 1892, he was awarded a scholarship enabling him to study in Paris at the Academie Julian with William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) and to travel through Europe, going with the Pennsylvania impressionist Walter E. Schofield (1869-1944). His subsequent landscapes, portraits, and figure paintings reveal the influence of impressionism and an overwhelming fascination with color. His first solo... Read full biography
The following biography, submitted November 2002, is from Marian Clark of Colorado. She is a great-grand daughter of the artist. Hugh Henry Breckenridge was long associated with Philadelphia as a modernist painter and teacher. From 1887 to 1892, he was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he taught for more than forty years. In 1892, he was awarded a scholarship enabling him to study in Paris at the Academie Julian with William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) and to travel through Europe, going with the Pennsylvania impressionist Walter E. Schofield (1869-1944). His subsequent landscapes, portraits, and figure paintings reveal the influence of impressionism and an overwhelming fascination with color. His first solo exhibition in 1904 included both paintings and pastels. Breckenridge also produced many commissioned por... Read full biography
Hugh Henry Breckenridge - Artist Info
About Hugh Henry Breckenridge: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (8)
All MuseumsGreenville County Museum of Art
420 College Street
Greenville, SC 29601Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins Diboll Circle, City Park
P.O. Box 19123
New Orleans, LA 70124Reading Public Museum
500 Museum Road
Reading, PA 19611-1425San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103Swope Art Museum
25 South Seventh Street
Terre Haute, IN 47807The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102