Joseph DeCamp
Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (also De Camp; born November 5, 1858 in Cincinnati , † February 11, 1923 in Boca Grande , Florida ) was an American painter of tonalism and impressionism .
Life
DeCamp studied together with Frank Duveneck in Boston and went with him to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the second half of the 1870s , then spent some time in Florence and returned to Boston in 1883. There he became a member of the Boston School , directed by Edmund Charles Tarbell , and concentrated on portraiture . In the 1890s he adopted the style of tonalism and in 1897 he was one of the founders of the Impressionist artist group Ten American Painters . In 1904, a fire in his Boston studio burned several hundred of his early paintings, almost all of them landscapes .
In 1908 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Works (selection)
The Cellist, 1908
The Blue Cup, 1909
The Kreutzer Sonata, around 1912–1914
The Steward, around 1919
literature
- Laurene Buckley: Joseph DeCamp: The Boston Technician. Prestel-Verlag 1995. ISBN 3-7913-1604-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Members: Joseph R. DeCamp. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 25, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | DeCamp, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | DeCamp, Joseph Rodefer (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cincinnati |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1923 |
| Place of death | Boca Grande , Florida |