Paintings Exhibited at the Fair page 5

William Partridge Burpee, was one of the first American painters to embrace French Impressionism. He wrote- " As an Impressionist, I was filled completely full of motives of all the primitive colors and felt that they fair ran riot."

The painting above- `Snow Covered Rocks' was painted in 1903, as is 29 1/2" x 36 1/2". Though it did not win an award at the 1904 World's fair, Burpee won a medal in the pastel category.

Burpee, noted more for his landscape and figure work was was born in Rockland, Maine on April 13, 1846. He was educated in Rockland schools and in the Kents Hill Academy in Readfield, Maine. William Partridge Burpee was born in Rockland, Maine on April 13, 1846 to Nathaniel A. and Mary Partridge Burpee. As a young man he was educated in Rockland schools and in the Kents Hill Academy in Readfield, Maine.

By September 1, 1885, he was painting figures on Lynn Beach, Massachusetts, between Nahant and Swampscott in a style that now reflected the influence of French painting – particularly Eugene Boudin and Emile Louis Vernier.

In 1897, Burpee left Boston to tour Spain, Italy, France and England. He returned to the United States in 1899 and the next year returned to spend the summer in Holland.

He died in Rockland, Maine in 1940.

Briton Rivière was an Irish artist born in London, England on August 14, 1840. His father, William Rivière, was drawing-master at Cheltenham College, and afterwards an art teacher at Oxford. Rivière was mostly educated in art by his father, though he did attend Cheltenham College and Oxford, where he received his degree in 1867.

His first pictures appeared at the British Institution, and in 1857 he exhibited three works at the Royal Academy, but it was not until 1863 that he became a regular contributor to the Academy exhibitions.

He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1878, and R.A. in 1881, and received the degree of DCL at Oxford in 1891.

He is best known as an animal painter, and as such was considered the successor to Britain's great animal painter, Edwin Landseer. He lived by the zoo and even had animals in his studio .

The painting to the left is entitled- `Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite' and was painted in 1902 in oils and was 73" x 62". Rivière chose an unusual scene derived from a Homeric hymn (8th-6th centuries BC).

A label written by the artist is attached to the reverse of this painting, and contains the specific verse:

Aphrodite

There clad herself in garments beautiful

The laughter loving goddess. Gold-adorned

She hasted on her way down Ida's Mount,

Ida, the many-rilled, mother of wild beasts

And in her train, the grey wolf and the bear,

the keen eyed lion and the swift footed pard,

that hungers for the kind, all fawning came.

Rivière died in 1920.

Marie Herndl was born in Munich, German in 1859 and moved to America, where she settled in Milwaukee in 1899.

Marie chose to pursue an artistic career in painted glass, and although she admitted it was a difficult profession, she became the only woman in her time to succeed as an artist in stained glass.

In a Milwaukee Journal article in 1911 she said, "For a long time I had a hard time: the ways of the artist are not always bright, nor is the work as easy as some imagine...The work is so hard that unless one is determined and diligent as well as in love with it, failure is certain."

Herndl died in Milwaukee on May 14, 1912 at the age of 53.

The stained glass image to the right comes from the now destroyed "City House" Catholic primary school in St. Louis, founded by the Sacred Heart nuns. It was painted during the St. Louis World's Fair where Marie Hendl won a Gold medal in 1904. The right image depicts a moment preceding the Crucifixion. Christ with an irregular nimbus around his head, and wearing a long white robe, stands upright, gazing at the sky and the descending wide beams of light. A centurion near-by reads the verdict from a large tablet and with his right hand points at the Christ. Almost all the witnesses of the event, including the two semi-nude thieves, the Apostles, and the Madonna are motionless.

Jan Styka (1858-1925), whose preparations included three months in the City of David, painstakingly recreated his masterpiece- `Golgotha,' an enormous painting by of 60 x 15 m. It was painted in 1896. Styka won international acclaim, which allowed him to own a villa and a studio in Paris and a residence on Capri.

Oddly, the picture was supposed to be featured at the World's Fair in St. Louis but never reached its destination. Attempts at transporting the canvas from New York to Paris Styka soon encountered obstacles. Discouraged by clashes with customs officers the artist decided to leave the painting in America and never saw it again.

Father Gregory Gerrer

Father Gregory Gerrer, was a monk of St. Gregory's Abbey in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He gained recognation as an artist, curator, and collector of art.

Robert Francis Xavier Gerrer was born on July 23, 1867, in France in the Alsatian village of Lautenbach, In late 1870, he immigrated with his family to the United States and settled in Bedford, Iowa.

In December he visited the community of Benedictine monks at Sacred Heart Mission, located in the southern part of present Pottawatomie County and in January 1892, he took the name Gregory.

After being ordained to the priesthood in 1900, Gerrer traveled to Rome to study art. He particularly liked portraiture. In 1904 he painted a portrait of the recently elected Pope Pius X. Gerrer entered the painting in the 1904 World's Fair at St. Louis, where it won a bronze medal.

Gerrer returned to the United States in 1904 and taught at Sacred Heart and at St. Gregory's, after the Benedictine community moved to Shawnee. Beginning in 1917 he spent fifteen years as a faculty member and curator at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He then returned to St. Gregory's Abbey and resumed his teaching duties. He also continued to paint, both for income and to barter for artistic works and anthropological objects.

In 1931 Gerrer was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. He died on August 24, 1946.

Emil Carlsen was born on October 19, 1853 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an architecture student at the Danish Royal Academy before immigrating to Chicago in 1872. While working as an architectural draftsman, he became an assistant to painter L. B. Holse. After a studying six months in Paris, he returned to Chicago and taught at would become the Art Institute of Chicago. A successful artist at the time, Carlsen maintained studios in Boston and New York during 1886. The following year, he moved to San Francisco to succeed the late Virgil Williams as director of the School of Design.

Returning to New York in 1891 penniless, he regularly taught at the National Academy of Design and by 1896 had gained financial success and recognition. About 1905 he built a home and studio in Falls Village, Connecticut while maintaining a residence in New York City, and in 1906 was elected to the National Academy.

Carlsen was awarded agold medal at the 1904 World's Fair.

The picture to the left was entitled- `The Sooty Kettle.'

The largest and most important exhibition of his work during his lifetime was held at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC in 1923.

Carlsen died in New York City on January 2, 1932.

Colin Campbell Cooper was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 8, 1856. Cooper's artistic incentive came from his mother, who was an amateur copyist in watercolors. His father, a great lover of literature and music, encouraged him to be artist.

He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins, and at Académie Julian in Paris.

In 1895 he was back in Philadelphia, teaching courses in watercolour at the Drexel Institute, and in 1897 he married Emma Lampert, also a painter. He taught at Drexel until 1898, when he moved to New York City. In 1902 Cooper began painting the new American building, the skyscraper, and thus documenting the modern city. He painted Cliffs of Manhattan and Fifth Avenue, N.Y.C. during this period.

Cooper continued to travel, and was on the S.S. Carpathia when it steamed to the rescue of passengers of the Titanic. In 1913 Cooper was in Ceylon, Burma, and for the first time, India.

After the death of his wife Emma, Cooper moved to Southern California in 1921 and then became Dean of the Santa Barbara School for the Arts. He simultaneously kept a New York residence for many years, and thus maintained a presence on both coasts.

In 1927, he married Marie Frehsee, and campaigned for an art museum to be placed in the old post office.

The image to the right- `Chartres Cathedral' was exhibited at the 1904 World's Fair. Cooper was awarded a Commemorative Medal as Member of the International Jury of Awards at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

He maintained a home in Santa Barbara until his death in 1937.

John McLure Hamilton was born in Philadelphia in 1853 and began his art education at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, under Thomas Eakins. Later he travelled to Europe and continued his education at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Royal Academy in Belgium.

Hamilton was noted for portraits, figure paintings and illustrations. While maintaining a permanent address in Philadelphia, he lived in England for fifty-eight years where he was official portrait painter to William Gladstone, prime minister of the United Kingdom.

His most important painting is "Le rire," which was exhibited in the National academy in New York in 1877, and at the Paris Exposition in 1878.

Hamilton painted portraits of many English notables including Cardinal Manning, George Meredith and Richard Vaux.

Hamilton was quoted-

"As I grow older the advantage of having been born an American of British and French blood becomes daily more ideal. I now know that I have escaped the insulating influences and the national prejudices of all three countries, and have retained only their qualities — mainly good."

`Mr. Cosmo Monkhouse,' is the name of the painting to the left. Monkhouse was a reknown poet and a critic.

Childe Hassam was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1859. He was thought of as the premier Impressionist painter of New York City. Childe began drawing in the 1870s, studying in Boston under William Rimmer and the Munich academician, Ignaz Gaugengigl. Influenced by the tonalist painter- George Fuller, Hassam became well-known for his street scenes such as Rainy Day, Columbus Avenue, Boston. From 1890 through World War I, he painted its fashionable boulevards, park lanes, and neighborhoods.

Childe travelled to Paris in 1886, making numerous rural and urban plein-air paintings that put him in the center of the emerging American Impressionist brotherhood. He returned to Boston in 1889, eventually settling in New York City.

Hassam preoccupied himself with patriotic, decorative paintings of war-time New York City. These festive interpretations of people and flags in the streets of the increasingly skyscraper dominated New York brought him great popular and critical success.

This image- `Moonrise at Sunset,' was exhibited at the Louisiana Exposition and was

27.17 inch wide x 27.17 inch high

George Inness was born on May 1, 1825 in Newburgh, New York His work was influenced, by the old masters, the Hudson River school, the Barbizon school, and the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg.

Inness was the fifth of thirteen children born to John Williams Inness, a farmer. His family moved to Newark, New Jersey when he was about five. In 1839 he studied for several months with an itinerant painter, John Jesse Barker. At a young age, Inness worked as a map engraver in New York City, then studied with French landscape painter Régis François Gignoux. In his early twenties, he attended classes at the National Academy of Design, and studied the work of Hudson River School artists Thomas Cole and Asher Durand.

Inness opened his first studio in New York. In 1849 Inness married Delia Miller, who died a few months later. The next year he married Elizabeth Abigail Hart, with whom he would have six children.

In 1851 Inness travelled to Europe to paint and study. Inness spent more than a year in Rome, during which time he rented a studio above that of painter William Page, who likely introduced the artist to Swedenborgianism.

During trips to Paris in the early 1850s, Inness came under the influence of artists working in the Barbizon school of France. Barbizon landscapes were noted for their looser brushwork, darker palette, and emphasis on mood. In 1854 his son George Inness, Jr. was born in Paris.

The work of the 1860s and 1870s often tended toward the panoramic and picturesque, topped by cloud-laden and threatening skies, and included views of his native country. In terms of composition, precision of drawing, and the emotive use of color, these paintings placed Inness among the best and most successful landscape painters in America.

After Inness settled in Montclair, New Jersey in 1885 his art through a more abstracted handling of shapes, softened edges, and saturated color. This looser style distinguishes Inness from those painters who are characterized as Luminists.

Inness died while in Bridge of Allan, Scotland in 1894. The painting to the left is named- `Niagra,' and was exhibited at the 1904 World's Fair.