Robert Reid (painter)
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Robert Lewis Reid (* 29. July 1862 in Stockbridge (Massachusetts) , † 2. December 1929 in Clifton Springs , New York ) was an American puppet and muralist , who from 1905 when a portrait painter mainly motifs with soft impressionist pastels turned .
Life
Robert Reid, the son of the Stockbridge school principal Jared Reid jr. (1824-1886) and his wife Louisa Dwight studied, first at the Boston School of Art School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Emil Grundmann . From 1884 he studied at the Art Students League of New York in Manhattan and in 1885 moved to the Paris Académie Julian to Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre . In France he painted figures of farmers from the area around Étaples . Returned to America in 1889, he taught at the Art Students League of New York and at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art . Later one of Reid's students was Nan Sheets (1885-1976).
In addition to his apprenticeship, this and that young, attractive woman - mostly framed with flowers - became his favorite motif as a portrait painter. In the winter of 1896/97 he left the Society of American Artists with nine other artists in protest against the art business that was predominant at the time . The ten founded the association Ten American Painters . In 1898 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters . He was also a member of the National Academy Museum and School from 1906 .
By 1904 Reid rose to be a sought-after painter of wall paintings .
Wall paintings (selection)
Locations of some of Reid's plants:
- 1893 Fresco on the dome of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts building at the Chicago World's Fair
- Library of Congress in Washington, DC
- Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State in Manhattan
- Massachusetts State House in Boston (three panels: James Otis Delivering his Speech against the Writs of Assistance , Paul Revere's Ride and The Boston Tea Party )
- Paris World Exhibition 1900 - a plaque in the United States pavilion
- 1906 Window in the Unitarian Memorial Church in Fairhaven, Massachusetts
- St. Paul the Apostle Church (Manhattan) - The Martyrdom of St. Paul
- 1915: Panama-Pacific International Exposition , Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco - a rotunda with eight pictures that no longer exist today.
literature
- Reid, Robert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 109 .
- Helene Barbara Weinberg: Robert Reid. Academic "impressionist" . In: Archives of American Art Journal 15, 1975, 1, pp. 2-11.
- Cynthia Seibels: Reid, Robert Lewis . In: American National Biography Vol. 18, New York 1999, pp. 311-312.
- Denise Mahoney: Reid, Robert . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 98, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023263-9 , p. 148 f.
Web links
- Biography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Estate in the Archives of American Art
- Literature by and about Robert Reid (painter) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Entry at the RKD
- Entry on artnet.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Members: Robert Reid. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 21, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reid, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reid, Robert Lewis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockbridge, Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1929 |
| Place of death | Clifton Springs , New York |