James William Pattison

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James William Pattison (born July 14, 1844 in Boston , Massachusetts , † May 29, 1915 in Asheville , North Carolina ) was an American landscape and marine painter , art critic , art writer and art and university teacher .

Life

Pattison was one of four children of the Baptist clergyman Robert Everett Pattison (1800-1874), who from 1858 to 1864 as headmaster of the Oread Institute in Worcester , Massachusetts, and from 1864 to 1870 as professor of systematic theology at Shurtleff College in Alton , Illinois , worked. Pattison took part in the Civil War as a volunteer with the Union Army . From April 1864 to August 1865 he served in Company G of the 57th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers , a unit of the Army of the Potomac formed for the siege of Petersburg . Of the war while he told James Harper's magazine Harper's Weekly by sketches.

At the end of the war he took private art classes in St. Louis , where he married his first wife. In 1866 he lived in New York City and received private lessons from Sanford Robinson Gifford (or Robert Swain Gifford ), the brothers William and James Hart and George Inness , who introduced him to the romantic painting traditions of the Hudson River School . He then worked from 1869 to 1873 as an art teacher at Washington University in St. Louis , where William Merritt Chase was one of his students.

In 1873 he went to Düsseldorf , at that time an international center for contemporary painting and art education through the Düsseldorf School of Painting , and remained a private student of the landscape painter Albert Flamm until 1876 . Meanwhile widowed, he met his second wife in Düsseldorf, the American still life painter Helen Searle , whom he married in 1876. The couple moved to Paris and the artists' colony of Écouen for around six years , where Pattison took lessons from the Italian animal and landscape painter Luigi Chialiva . In the years 1879 to 1881 Pattison sent the exhibitions of the Salon de Paris .

In 1882 or 1883, the couple returned to the United States and lived in New York City for about two years. There Pattison took part in exhibitions at the National Academy of Design and the American Water Color Society . He then took a position as director of the School of Fine Arts of the Jacksonville Female Academy founded in 1830 in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois , where his second wife died in November 1884. In 1893 he took part in the World's Columbian Exposition .

Tree Studio Building in Chicago , photo 2012

In 1896 Pattison moved to Chicago and taught as a faculty lecturer on the collections at the Art Institute of Chicago . He also held a second teaching post at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois . He was also involved in the Municipal Art League of Chicago , the Society of Western Artists , the Chicago Society of Artists , the Cliff Dwellers Club and the Palette and Chisel Club . In 1904 he was a participant in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition . Pattison lived and worked in the Tree Studio Building in Chicago's Near North Side before moving to Park Ridge, Illinois , in 1906 to live with his third wife, Hortense Roberts Pattison, whom he married in 1905 . One of his neighbors there was the painter Walter Marshall Clute (1870-1915), who published a profile of Pattison in the Chicago art magazine The Sketch Book . Another portrait of Pattison was painted by the portraitist Louis Betts (1873–1961). In old age, Pattison retired to Asheville, North Carolina, where he died at the age of 70.

Works (selection)

Painting, drawings

  • Battery and Encampment in Clearing , 1864/1865, drawing
  • The Siege of Petersburg, Encampment and Headquarters of the 1st Brigade Division of the 9th Corps , 1865, oil on paper
  • Twin Lakes, Leadville, Colorado , 1872, Vose Galleries, Boston
  • Tranquility , circa 1906, Union League Club of Chicago
  • Figures on a street in Ecouen, near Paris
  • View of the Piedmonts in North Carolina

Fonts

  • from 1886: Pattison's Art Talks . In: Jacksonville Journal and Chicago Journal
  • 1901: Painting in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • 1904/1906: The world's painters since Leonardo; being a history of painting from the Renaissance to the present day . Dulfield, New York
  • from 1910: Editor of the Fine Arts Journal
  • 1912: "The Chicago plan". To make Chicago beautiful . In: Fine Arts Journal
  • various articles for Arts for America and the magazine of the Central Art Association , Chicago

literature

  • Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Gründ, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-7000-0149-4 , Volume VIII, p. 165
  • Peter Hastings Falk: Who was Who in American Art . Sound View, Madison 1985, ISBN 0-932087-00-0 , p. 471
  • James F. Carr: Mantle Fielding's dictionary of American painters, sculptors and engravers . New York 1965, p. 272
  • Walter Marshall Clute: James William Pattison: Author, Critic and Painter . In: The Sketch Book , May 5, 1906, pp. 310 ff.
  • LM McCauley: Art and Artists . In: Chicago Evening Post , April 8, 1911
  • Philip L. Brewer: Spot: Southern Works on Paper . Hicklin Galleries, LLC / The Charleston Renaissance Gallery, Charleston 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 437
personal data
SURNAME Pattison, James William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American landscape and marine painter, art critic, art writer, and art teacher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1915
Place of death Asheville , North Carolina