Thomas Corwin Lindsay

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Thomas Corwin Lindsay (born September 15, 1839 in Cincinnati , Ohio ; † May 5, 1907 ibid) was an American landscape , animal and portrait painter .

Life

Landscape , Cincinnati Art Museum
Landscape, River and Forest , 1880s, Cincinnati Art Museum

Lindsay, second of seven children of the married couple Thomas Lindsay (1807–1857) and Elizabeth Lawrence (Lorentz) Lindsay (1808–1899), learned to paint as a self-taught . Without training as a painter, he opened a studio in his hometown in 1856 or 1857 , where he mainly presented landscape paintings. In the fall of 1858 he went on a study trip to eastern Pennsylvania . A year later he opened a new studio. In the same year he exhibited pictures at the Ohio Mechanics' Institute . In 1860 he became a member of the Cincinnati Sketch Club . In 1862 he started another study trip. Between January and May 1865 he had a number of landscape paintings auctioned, including views of Tennessee , Connecticut and the Kanawha River . He then went on a trip to Europe and studied in Düsseldorf , where he familiarized himself with painting at the Düsseldorf School , and in Paris . In the summer of 1869 he was back in his hometown. There he established himself alongside Frank Duveneck as a leading landscape painter. Lindsay created over two thousand paintings, mainly landscapes, often with genre-like motifs and views, many pictures of animals, and occasionally portraits. He was an early member of the Cincinnati Art Club . He was also a member of the Society of Western Artists . He taught several students in his studio. From 1870 to 1883 he exhibited in the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition , in 1875 in the H. & S. Pogue's Department Store , and in 1896 in the Art Institute of Chicago . Around 1882 he married Mary Frances Sampson (1859–1937), who gave birth to Thomas Cecil Lindsay (1884–1933).

literature

  • Cincinnati Art Museum (Ed.): The Golden Age. Cincinnati Painters of the Nineteenth Century Represented in the Cincinnati Art Museum . Cincinnati 1979, pp. 79 f.
  • Jeffrey Weidman, Mary Sayre Haverstock, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, Brian L. Meggitt (Eds.): Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900. A Biographical Dictionary . Kent State University Press, Kent / Ohio 2000, p. 529 f.

Web links

Commons : Thomas Corwin Lindsay  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. 435.
  2. ↑ Kenneth R. Trapp: Celebrate Cincinnati Art: In Honor of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Cincinnati Art Museum, 1881-1981 . Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati 1982, pp. 20 f.
personal data
SURNAME Lindsay, Thomas Corwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American landscape, animal, and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1907
Place of death Cincinnati , Ohio