EMILE GRUPPÉ
Born in Rochester, New York, EMILE GRUPPÉ became a renowned New England landscape and marine painter. Although he is best known for his variety of Impressionistic landscapes, he also painted figures and portraits. His modern style was largely inherited from French Impressionist Claude Monet. "Lily Pads" (date and location unknown), one of Gruppé's landscapes, attests to Monet's influence and is similar to some of the paintings in Monet's "Water Lily" series.
He was the son of landscape artist Charles Paul Gruppe, and was born in
1896-1978
1896 into a youth that would provide him with a very strong art background.
In addition to being raised by an artistic father, he was also educated in art at
The Hague in the Netherlands and in New York City at the National Academy
of Design and The Arts Students League. He also received instruction from artists George Bridgeman, Charles Chapman, Richard Miller and John F. Carlson, with whom he would later found in 1942, the Gruppé Summer School in Gloucester, Massachusetts. His artistic career had begun in earnest by 1915, but was briefly interrupted in 1917 when he spent a year in the United States Navy.
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Gruppé's prolific career brought him many awards and memberships. His popular painting "Winter, Vermont" won the Richard Mitton Award at the Jordan Marsh Exhibition in Boston in 1843. While his permanent studio was located in Gloucester, he often visited Vermont and his influence on landscape painting can be seen in modern interpretations of the subject matter..
Source: "American Art Analog" by Michael David Zellman. Vol. III, p. 911
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