Joseph DeCamp
| Joseph DeCamp | |
|---|---|
 Joseph Rodefer DeCamp | |
| Born |
November 5, 1858 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Died | February 11, 1923 (aged 64) |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting |
Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (November 5, 1858 - February 11, 1923) was an American painter and educator.
Biography
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio where he studied with Frank Duveneck. In the second half of the 1870s he went with Duveneck and fellow students to the Royal Academy of Munich. He then spent time in Florence, Italy, returning to Boston in 1883.
DeCamp became known as a member of the Boston School led by Edmund Charles Tarbell and Emil Otto Grundmann, focusing on figure painting, and in the 1890s adopting the style of Tonalism. He was a founder of the Ten American Painters, a group of American Impressionists, in 1897. He began teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1895, but left the following year because of ill health. From 1903 until his death in 1923, he was a faculty member at Massachusetts Normal Art School, now Massachusetts College of Art and Design, teaching painting from the living model and portraiture.[1]
A 1904 fire in his Boston studio destroyed several hundred of his early paintings, including nearly all of his landscapes.
In 1891, he married Edith Franklin Baker (1868–1955). They had four children: Sarah "Sally" (1892–1973), Theodore (1894–1955), Lydia (1896–1974), and Pauline (1899–).[2]
He died in Boca Grande, Florida.
Honors
He was awarded the 1899 Temple Gold Medal (for Woman Drying Her Hair), the 1912 Beck Gold Medal (for Portrait of Francis I. Amory), and the 1920 Lippincott Prize (for The Red Kimono) by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He received an honorable mention at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris (for Woman Drying Her Hair). His exhibit, Reading – The Sea Wall – Portrait of Arthur P. DeCamp, was awarded a gold medal at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. He was awarded the 1909 Clarke Silver Medal by the Corcoran Gallery of Art (for The Guitar Player). He was awarded the 1915 gold medal by the Philadelphia Art Club (for The Silver Waist).
In 1902, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.
Selected works
- The Hammock - Portrait of the Artist's Wife and Children (1895), private collection.[3]
- Woman Drying Her Hair (ca. 1899), Cincinnati Art Museum.
- Arthur P. DeCamp - Portrait of the Artist's Brother (ca. 1900), Longyear Historical Society & Museum, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.[4]
- Portrait of Dr. Horace Howard Furness (1906), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.[5]
- Sally - Portrait of the Artist's Daughter (1907), Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts.
- Portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt (1908), Memorial Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.[6]
- The Cellist (1908), Cincinnati Art Museum.
- The Guitar Player (1908), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- Portrait of Francis I. Amory (1909), private collection.[7]
- Three Friends - Portrait of Isaac H. Clothier, His Son and Grandson (1912), private collection.[8] The painting's title has a double meaning, the Clothiers were Quakers, members of the Society of Friends.
- The Seamstress (1916), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- The Steward - Portrait of George Washington Lewis (1919), Porcellian Club, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Portrait of Edward Tuck (1919), Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.[9]
- The Red Kimono (1920), Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida.[10]
- The Blue Mandarin Coat (1922), High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. DeCamp's final painting.
Gallery
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Woman Drying Her Hair (ca. 1899), Cincinnati Art Museum.
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Sally (1907), Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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The Cellist (1908) Cincinnati Art Museum.
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The Guitar Player (1908), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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The Blue Cup (1909), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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The Kreutzer Sonata (1912–14), private collection.
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The Seamstress (1916), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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The Steward (1919), Porcellian Club, Harvard University.
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The Blue Mandarin Coat (1922), High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
References
- ↑ Massachusetts School of Art Alumni Association (1938). Fiftieth Anniversary Record, 1888-1938 , 1938). p. 104. Boston: : Massachusetts School of Art Alumni Association. p. 102.
- ↑ Descendants of Joseph Rodefer DeCamp, from RootsWeb.
- ↑ The Hammock, from The Athenaeum.
- ↑ Arthur P. DeCamp, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Dr. Horace Howard Furness, from PAFA.
- ↑ Theodore Roosevelt.
- ↑ Francis I. Amory, from Art and Progress, vol. 4, no. 6 (April 1913), p. 919.
- ↑ Three Friends, from Art and Progress, vol. 4, no. 6 (April 1913), p. 924.
- ↑ Edward Tuck, from The Athenaeum.
- ↑ The Red Kimono, from SIRIS.
- Laurene Buckley, Joseph DeCamp: The Boston Technician (Prestel Publishing, 1995) ISBN 3-7913-1604-4
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