William Wallace Gilchrist Junior

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William Wallace Gilchrist (March 2, 1879 - November 4, 1926 ) was an American painter .

The son of the composer William Wallace Gilchrist trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He was a student of Cecilia Beaux , Thomas Anshutz and William Merritt Chase . He also took lessons from Winslow Homer during the Maine summer vacation .

In 1901 he married and settled in Philadelphia, from where he continued to make annual trips to Maine. In addition to impressionist landscape paintings, he painted genre scenes and was a respected portrait painter.

His grandson Robert Griffin published a biography of his grandfather in 2001 under the title Affectionately, Wallace .

Works

  • Early autumn
  • Evening
  • Silk and Satin , 1911
  • Girl sewing
  • Young Woman Resting
  • After breakfast
  • Kneeling by Her Bed , 1911
  • Pennsylvania Dutch Girl
  • The Model's Rest
  • Woman Reading
  • The Artist's Daughter
  • Gilchrist Family at Breakfast , 1916
  • Ellen Lord Gilchrist and Friend
  • Evening Shadows
  • In Her Boudoir
  • Kindergarden
  • Studio interior, 1920
personal data
SURNAME Gilchrist, William Wallace Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gilchrist, William Wallace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1879
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1926