Ernest Peixotto

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Ernest Peixotto

Ernest Clifford Peixotto (born October 15, 1869 in San Francisco , † December 6, 1940  in New York ) was an American painter, wall painter , illustrator and author . As one of eight artists in the American Expeditionary Force , it was Peixotto's job during World War I to capture the war in drawings.

Life

Family and career

Ernest Clifford Peixotto was born on October 15, 1869 in San Francisco, California . Born the third son of five children into a Jewish family. His father, Raphael Levy Maduro Peixotto, was a trader and his mother was Myrtillie Jessica Davis.

In 1886 Peixotto attended the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco (today: San Francisco Art Institute ) and was taught by Emil Carlsen . There he befriended the later famous author Frank Norris . Peixotto first caused a sensation in the San Francisco art scene when he illustrated the cover of the publication "The Lark". From 1888 Peixotto studied at the encouragement of Emil Carlsen in Paris at the Académie Julian . There he taught, among others, Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant . Here he met his friend Frank Norris again, who had also decided to study at the Académie Julian. The two shared a passion for sketching artillery devices and weapons. In 1890 and 1891 Peixotto exhibited the two paintings "Le Vieux Garde de Chasse" and "Dans l'Église" in the Salon de Paris and was then traded as the rising star of art in the USA.

After six years in France, Peixotto returned to the USA in 1894, painted portraits in San Francisco for a few years and began working as an illustrator for Scribner's Magazine and Harper's Magazine in New York in 1897 . Here he also worked as an illustrator on Henry Cabot Lodge's "The Story of the Revolution". In order to adequately illustrate all the places of the revolution named in the book, Peixotto traveled to all of the locations.

In 1897 Peixotto married Mary G. Hutchinson, an artist who had also studied in Paris under Emil Carlsen. They traveled together for several years through France, Spain, Portugal and Italy, and later through South America. He also wrote several articles for Scribner's Magazine about his travel experience. With the experiences of these trips, Peixotto wrote several travel books, which he illustrated with his drawings of the local landscape. From 1907 he briefly taught at the Art Institute of Chicago .

Time in the American Expeditionary Force

With the beginning of the First World War , Peixotto broke off a stay in France and returned to the USA. After intensive intellectual analysis of the war, he joined the Division of Pictorial Publicity under Charles Dana Gibson , whose goal was to inspire American citizens with propaganda for the war. With the help of works of art that showed the heroic sacrifice and courage of soldiers, the Americans should show solidarity with them.
A short time later, Peixotto and seven other painters ( Wallace Morgan , William James Aylard , Harry Townsend , Harvey Dunn , Walter Jack Duncan , George Matthews Harding , Jules Andre Smith ) were appointed captains of the Division of Pictorial Publicity by John J. Pershing Painting appointed to the United States Army Corps of Engineers . It was their job to capture the war in pictures. Peixotto did this mostly in the form of sketches and drawings of the destroyed landscape and architecture after a battle.

Time after the war

After the end of the war, Peixotto stayed in France, near Paris, as head of the painting department in a training center for painting in the US Army . From 1919 to 1926 he was also President of the Wall Painting Department of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. From 1924 Peixotto concentrated on wall painting, there were murals in several buildings in New York, including 1924 in the Bank of New York . From 1929 to 1939 he became President of the National Society of Mural Painters of the USA. In 1937 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Peixotto died on December 6, 1940 in New York at the age of 71.

Works

Books

  • By Italian Seas (1906)
  • Through the French Provinces (1909)
  • Romantic California (1910)
  • Pacific Shores from Panama (1913)
  • Our Hispanic Southwest (1916)
  • A Revolutionary Pilgrimage, being an Account of a Series of Visits to Battlegrounds & other Places made memorable by the War of the Revolution (1917)
  • The American Front (1919)
  • Through Spain and Portugal (1922)
  • A Bacchic Pilgrimage: French Wines (1932)

All books were illustrated by Peixotto himself.

Ernest Peixotto, Fortified Town by River, France, 1922

Book illustrations

  • Samuel Jacques Brun (1896): Tales of Languedoc.
  • Emma Frances Dawson (1897): An Itinerant House and other Stories.
  • Robert Louis Stevenson (1897): Letters.
  • Robert Howe Fletcher (1898): Ten Drawings in Cinatown.
  • Henry Cabbot Lodge (1898): The Story of the Revolution.
  • Agnes Repplier (1898): Philadelphia: The Place and the People.
  • Charles Hemstreet (1899): Nooks and Corners of Old New York.
  • Roosevelt, Theodore (1899): Life of Cromwell.
  • Frederick Milton Willis (1903): The City of Is, and other Poems.
  • Wharton, Edith (1905): Italian Backgrounds.
  • Wallace Irwin (1906): Chinatown Ballads.
  • Clayton Hamilton (1925): Wanderings.

painting

  • Le Vieux Garde de Chasse (oil, 1890)
  • Dans L'Église (oil, 1891)
  • Woman of Rijsoord (oil, 1895)
  • Lady in Yellow (oil, 1900)
  • The Dutch Birdcage (oil, 1907)
  • The Pool, La Granja (oil, 1915)

Mural

  • Wall painting "Morte d'Arthur" in Cleveland, Ohio for Henry A. Everett (1911)
  • Mural in Seaman's Bank, New York City (1924)
  • Mural in the Bank of New York City in New York City (1924)
  • Mural in the Century Club in New York City (1924)
  • Wall painting in San Mateo, California for William B. Bourn (1925)
  • Mural in Long Island, New York for Farris Russell (1929)
  • Mural painted in Pasadena, California for John C. Cravens (1930)
  • Mural in Florence, Italy for Timothy Spelman (1931)
  • Mural in Washington DC for the George Washington Bicentenary (1932)

Sketches

Most of Peixotto's work consists of landscape sketches.

  • Ernest Peixotto: Arcades where the Women Work

  • Ernest Peixotto: Cherokee Attack Fort Loudoun Garrison

  • Ernest Peixotto: Avignon

  • Ernest Peixotto: Chateau de Moulin

  • Ernest Peixotto: Fortified Town by River, France

  • Ernest Peixotto: Chateau of La Grange Bleneau

  • Ernest Peixotto: Illustration for Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. 104

  • Ernest Peixotto: Little Painted Village by the Sea

  • Ernest Peixotto: Outing

  • Ernest Peixotto: San Francisco City Hall

literature

  • Ernest Clifford Peixotto (2010): American Artist: A Biography. Maryland: America Star Books. ISBN 978-1615827473 .
  • Ernest Clifford Peixotto (1919): The American Front. ISBN 9781437241327 .

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g California Art Research Archive: Ernest Peixotto. Biography and Works, 1869. In: California Art Project, vol. 9 . Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  2. ^ Paintings & Sculpture at the Nat. Academy of Design, Vol. 1: 1826-1925 , p. 222. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  3. ^ The National Museum of American History: Picturing World War I: America's First Official War Artists, 1918–1919. Retrieved on 15..2018
  4. ^ The American Front. Ernest Peixotto. Retrieved February 15, 2018
  5. ↑ Members: Ernest C. Peixotto. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Peixotto, Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peixotto, Ernest Clifford (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, illustrator, and war painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1940
Place of death New York , New York