Académie Julian
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Biography: Frederick Carl Frieseke
Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939) was an American painter celebrated for his role in the development of Impressionism, particularly the American Impressionist…
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Biography: Edmund C. Tarbell
Edmund Charles Tarbell was an influential American Impressionist painter born on April 26, 1862, in West Groton, Massachusetts. His artistic journey…
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Biography: Harold Harvey
Harold Harvey (1874–1941) was a distinguished British painter whose work captures the essence of Cornish life, landscape, and light with a…
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Biography: Robert Lewis Reid
Robert Lewis Reid (1862–1929) was an American artist known for his contributions to the American Impressionist movement. Born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts,…
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Inspiration: “Femme et Guitare,” by Felix Vallotton
Vallotton was born into a conservative middle-class family in Lausanne, the third of four children. His father owned a pharmacy, and later…
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Inspiration: “Mira Bauer,” by Max Kurzweil
Maximilian Franz Viktor Zdenko Marie Kurzweil (12 October 1867, Bisenz – 9 May 1916, Vienna) was an Austrian painter and printmaker. He moved near Vienna in…
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Biography: Édouard Vuillard
Édouard Vuillard, a prominent French painter and printmaker of the Post-Impressionist era, was born on November 11, 1868, in Cuiseaux, a…
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Inspiration: “Windmill Near River,” by Maurice Cullen
Cullen was born on June 6, 1866, in St. John’s, Newfoundland. In 1870 his family moved to Montreal, Quebec. He traveled to Paris at…
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Inspiration: “Summer Lush,” by Amelie Lundahl
Amélie Lundahl was the youngest of eleven children. Her mother died when she was three months old and her father, Abraham,…
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Inspiration: “Apple Blossom,” by George Clausen
George Clausen was born in London on 18 April 1852, the son of a decorative artist of Danish descent. From 1867…