Charles T. Stepule

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Water Lilies by Charles T. Stepule
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Charles T. Stepule (born November 1, 1911 in Wallingford , Connecticut , † November 3, 2006 in Gloucester , Massachusetts ) was an American painter .

Career

Charles T. Stepule, son of Mary Yokim and Charles Stepule (1876-1953), was born in 1911 in New Haven County . His childhood was overshadowed by the First World War and the following years by the Great Depression . Further details about his youth are not known. Stepule studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City , the Art Students League in New London (Connecticut), the Art Students League of New York and in various studios in Great Britain , France , Spain and Italy .

After the 1940 census , he lived in Portland, Connecticut during this time . He later served in the US Army during World War II . He was taken prisoner of war.

Stepule lived in Hartford (Connecticut) for a long time . During this time he taught at the East Hartford Art League . In the 1940s and 1950s he made frequent vacations in Florida , where he also created numerous works. In 1958 he founded the oldest gallery , The Charles T. Stepule Gallery, on Bearskin Neck, part of Rockport, Massachusetts. He worked as a painter for 70 years. In many of his works he chose motifs from New England . In this context he is known for his harbor scenes of Gloucester and Rockport. He died in 2006 at the Seacoast Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Gloucester.

Works (selection)

  • Florida landscape with live oak and Spanish Moss , around 1950
  • Fishing boats, Gloucester Harbor , 1953
  • Gloucester Harbor , 1979
  • Birches over a mountain river
  • Charles River, Boston
  • Cleaves Street, Rockport
  • Motif no.1
  • Street scene
  • The Red Dory, Sanibel Island
  • Trawler at dock
  • Valley farm in Vermont
  • Water lilies

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Water Lilies at www.theboulderartgallery.com
  2. ^ Charles Stepule in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved October 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ 1940 US Census - Charles T. Stepule
  4. ↑ Town of Portland, Connecticut - Prisoner of War - Charles T. Stepule
  5. ↑ a b Southern Fine Arts - Charles T. Stepule  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ,@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.southernfinearts.com   Erika Designs, 2013
  6. ↑ Cici And Hyatt Brown Museum Of Art ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , August 2015 (PDF document)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / moas.org
personal data
SURNAME Stepule, Charles T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallingford , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 2006
Place of death Gloucester , Massachusetts