Trevor McClurg

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Trevor McClurg (* around 1817 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , † 1893 in Asheville , North Carolina ) was an American history , genre , portrait and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School and a photographer .

Life

McClurg was born as the eldest son of the foundry entrepreneur and politician Alexander McClurg (1788–1873) and his first wife Sarah Trevor († 1839), who had immigrated from Ireland . He had five siblings, among them the brigadier general, military adviser, publicist and bookseller Alexander Caldwell McClurg (1832-1901). In 1838 McClurg and his friends, the painters Emanuel Leutze and Johann Georg Schwartze , were tangible as an exhibiting artist at the Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Artists' Fund Society in Philadelphia . In 1841 McClurg traveled to Düsseldorf with Emanuel Leutze to study painting at the Royal Prussian Art Academy . From 1841 to 1843 he took part in the preparatory and painting classes of the history and portrait painter Karl Ferdinand Sohn . After Schwartze, who had been studying in Düsseldorf since 1839, Leutze and McClurg were the first Americans to be trained there. In the winter of 1844 McClurg belonged to the Sketch Club of American Artists in Rome . McClurg returned to the United States around 1846 after receiving further lessons from Thomas Couture in Paris . Until about 1859 he lived in Pittsburgh, then in New York City , from 1863 back in Pittsburgh, where he ran a drawing school with George Hetzel until 1865 . In the second half of the 1860s, McClurg was one of the scalp-level painters along with Hetzel and other artists . In 1877 McClurg moved with his family to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. There he turned to photography professionally . In 1885, McClurg's wife, who was a noted artist and art teacher at Wilson College Chambersburg, died in Ocean Beach, New Jersey.

Works (selection)

Home again , 1866, lithograph by Dominique C. Fabronius (1828–1894) after a painting by McClurg from 1865
  • Woman and Children with Indian Massacre in the Background, Taken Captive By the Indians , ca.1849, Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh / Pennsylvania
  • The Pioneers Defense , around 1852, also reproduced as an engraving
  • The Hero's Return, Home again , 1865, lithographed by Dominique C. Fabronius in 1866
  • Emanuel Leutze , portrait of friend, exhibited in Pittsburgh in 1869

literature

  • Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (ed.): The Hudson and the Rhine. The American painters' colony in Düsseldorf in the 19th century . Exhibition catalog, Düsseldorf 1976, p. 99.
  • Sabine Morgen: The impact of the Düsseldorf school in America in the 19th century. Düsseldorf paintings in America and American painters in Düsseldorf . Göttingen Contributions to Art History, Volume 2, Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7675-3059-1 , p. 1096 (register of persons)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sarah Trevor McClurg , website in the findagrave.com portal , accessed on May 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ Thomas Cushing (Ed.): A Genealogical and Biographical History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania . Clearfield, Chicago 1889. (Reprint: Baltimore 1975, ISBN 0-8063-0686-6 , p. 296) ( Google Books , digitized version )
  3. ^ The Biographical Dictionary of America , vol. 7, p. 119.
  4. ↑ Ann Hawkes Hutton: Emanuel Leutze. Portrait of Patriotism: Washington Crossing the Delaware . Chilton, Philadelphia and New York 1959, p. 23 (digitized version)
  5. ^ Katharina Bott: German Artists in America, 1813-1913. American artists in Germany, 1813–1913 . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1993, ISBN 3-932124-03-0 , p. 339.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ^ Danforth Museum (ed.): American artists in Düsseldorf, 1840-1865 . Danforth Museum, Framingham / Massachusetts 1982, pp. 7, 34.
  8. ^ Avis Berman: Sketch Club of American Artists at Rome . In: Archives of American Art Journal. Volume 40, No. 1/2, 2000, p. 2.
  9. ^ Judith Hansen O'Toole: Scenic Views: Painters from the Scalp Level School Revisited . Reprint in Ressource Library of November 17, 2008, article on tfaoi.com portal , accessed on May 4, 2016.
  10. ↑ Pittsburgh Daily Post, April 16, 1877, p. 4 .. Website in the archives.post-gazette.com portal , accessed on May 4, 2016.
  11. ↑ The Shippensburg Chronicle of 28 August 1885 S. 2nd . Web page in the portal newspapers.com , accessed on May 4, 2016.
  12. ^ Mary Thomas: Local paintings are focus of auction . Article from November 18, 2002 in the portal old.post-gazette.com , accessed on May 4, 2016.
  13. ↑ Douglas Naylor: Artist Awaiting Nineteenth Birthday Tells 'Youngster' Of Eighty To Wait Until He's Old Enough To Criticize. In: The Pittsburgh Press. September 23, 1934, p. 30 ( news.google.com )
  14. ↑ Home again / lith. by Fabronius; painted by Trevor McClurg. Website in the portal loc.gov ( Library of Congress ), accessed on May 4, 2016.
  15. ^ Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette , Feb. 1, 1869, p. 8 . Web page on the newpapers.com portal , accessed May 4, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME McClurg, Trevor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American history, genre, portrait and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School and a photographer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH 1893
Place of death Asheville , North Carolina