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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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…
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Inspiration: “In The Orchard Spring,” by William Brymner
Born in Greenock, Scotland, the son of Douglas Brymner the first Dominion Archivist and Jean Thomson, he moved with his family to Melbourne, Canada East in 1857. In 1864, his…