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The Boston School Tradition The Boston School Tradition TRUTH , B EAUTY AND TIMELESS CRAFT Cover: Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (1858-1923), (detail) The Kreutzer Sonata (The Violinist II) Oil on canvas, 48 1/4 x 40 1/4 inches, signed and dated lower left: Joseph DeCamp 1912, (pg. 19) The Boston School Tradition TRUTH , B EAUTY AND TIMELESS CRAFT June 6 - July 18, 2015 V OSE Fine American Art for Six Generations EST 1841 G ALLERIES LLC Boston Art Schools, Clubs and Studios E.A. Downs, Boston, 1899 , George H. Walker & Co. Lithography, Boston Courtesy of The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library Edited by Marcia L. Vose Designed by Stephanie M. Madden and Elizabeth Vose Frey Written by Courtney S. Kopplin, Stephanie M. Madden, and Catharine L. Holmes Photography by Tyler M. Prince Original Museum of Fine Arts location in Printing by Puritan Capital, Hollis, NH Copley Square, circa 1895 © 2015 Copyright Vose Galleries, LLC. All rights reserved. Vose Galleries Archives Foreword by Marcia L. Vose, Vice President Stuffed Sharks or Truth and Beauty? One of our artists, Joel Babb, recently gave me a book that As the definition of “art” becomes increasingly diverse, I I am in the midst of reading, Don Thompson’s The $12 hope future historians will distinguish today’s realist painters Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contem - as upholders of an art form that has been passed down for porary Art . I have had a glimpse into the machinations of centuries, with each succeeding generation applying tradi - this dizzying world, which originated around 1970, and tional methods and timeless craft in new and inventive ways. what passes for art in this world is baffling: the “shark” in No blood drawn, no fish in formaldehyde. Simply a medita - the book’s title refers to British artist Damien Hirst’s piece in tion of their own truth reflective of their contemporary envi - which he encases a real shark in a plastic tank filled with ronments. preserving fluid. The other pieces discussed in the book are We are very proud to present also almost exclusively conceptual in nature and made of The Boston School Tradition: , the only major exhibi - materials that are simply mind-boggling: one artist collected Truth, Beauty and Timeless Craft tion of this group held in over thirty years. The exhibit fea - four pints of blood from his body for four months, then tures over seventy fine examples by over forty artists, sculpted a “selfie” head made out of the blood (it’s frozen.) including the leading teachers of the movement along with a collection of rare canvasses by Joseph DeCamp, one of the While Boston’s art world has tended towards more conserva - earlier Boston School teachers. tive ideals for the past one hundred or so years, this was not always the case. Back in the 1870s and 1880s, Boston was We invite our readers to sit back, peruse the catalogue, and the first American city to embrace the radical French Barbi - experience the effects that depictions of truth and beauty zon style, which was the precursor to Impressionism. The play on the mind. city’s artist/teachers who traveled to France, and most did, brought back the teachings of Monet and introduced Im - NB: I would like to thank Trevor Fairbrother for his pressionism to the public and to their protégés who studied advice on this project and for his enlightening essay. Thanks at Boston’s constellation of leading art schools. From the also go to Gallery Director, Carey Vose, for her 1870s through the 1920s, Boston became home to the most tireless efforts in creating this exhibition. celebrated and original artists in America. They continued their quest for innovative styles of painting, yet based their artistic foundation on the rigorous training and subject mat - ter of the Dutch Masters and other Renaissance painters. Table of Contents 5 Theb yB Treovsotro Jn. Fiainrbsr oathnedr Their Boston School Art Schools in Boston EARLY TEACHERS : W ILLIAM MORRIS HUNT AND HELEN KNOWLTON 12 SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS , B OSTON 16 MASSACHUSETTS NORMAL ART SCHOOL 42 COWLES ART SCHOOL 46 Continuing the Tradition: Studios and Clubs GRUNDMANN STUDIOS 50 FENWAY STUDIOS 54 THE BOSTON ART CLUB 58 THE COPLEY SOCIETY 60 THE GUILD OF BOSTON ARTISTS 62 4 Winslow Homer (1836-1910), An Open Window Oil on canvas, 18 x 14 inches, signed and dated upper right: Homer 1872 5 The Bostonians and Their Boston School by Trevor J. Fairbrother Wonders transpired in Boston in the 1890s when a Europe could realize that the most innovative and challenging coterie of figurative artists sought to broaden traditional modern artists – from Édouard Manet to Edgar Degas – were historical approaches with a few contemporary trends. The engaged in a creative dialogue with these historic figures. leaders of the movement – Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank W. Ben - The American portraitist John Singer Sargent stimulated son, Joseph DeCamp, and Philip Hale – all taught at local art the impetus to combine the backbone of tradition with a de - schools, and they were prolific artists who quickly developed gree of experimentation. Sargent proved to be a cultural mascot national reputations. They and their numerous cohorts and in Boston, even though he was a classic expatriate, with life- protégés are now collectively known as the Boston School. long ties to Italy, France, and England (where he based his op - When they first came to critical attention, in the 1890s, their erations). After completing his training in Paris in the late most modern interest was Impressionism . 1870s, he practiced an increasingly virtuoso style, intensifying In The History of American Painting (1905), Samuel it with impressionist-derived touches as he saw fit. By 1890, Isham stated that Boston's leading new artists put “a certain Sargent, like his savviest and wealthiest friends in Boston, was breadth, a rougher texture, and a quivering light” into their pic - an enthusiastic collector of Claude Monet's paintings. Initially tures. He detected a kinship with Winslow Homer in the the more conservative American critics dismissed Sargent's style “frankness and directness” achieved by the younger painters. as overly clever, experimental, sketchy, or slapdash. In 1888, Isham described the Tarbell circle more specifically by saying when Boston’s artistic upper crust hosted the first solo exhibi - that their art had more of the "grace" and the polish of “train - tion of his career (at the St. Botolph Club) the reviews were ing” that is learned at art school, and less of the mixed, but soon thereafter he received a commission to paint a “originality and elemental force” mural for the new Boston Pub - that Homer had developed. 1 lic Library (designed by Isham's reference to Homer is McKim, Mead and White). In interesting because some of his 1899, when the Boston Art In principle the Boston School aesthetic allowed artists to best figurative works of the Students’ Association staged a combine what they found most admirable in the art of the past 1870s had a simple grandeur in - large mid-career retrospective and the present. This eclectic mixing of the historical and the spired by a slightly earlier love of (at Copley Hall), the occasion innovative was a new departure in the late nineteenth century. artistic Bostonians: the Barbizon prompted tremendous cultural School, especially the art of Jean- and civic pride. In 1902, Rodin, François Millet. whom Sargent had painted in According to Isham, Boston Paris in 1884, referred to him as was the only city in the nation where the direction of “le Van Dyck de l’époque” in the London press, confirming his contemporary art had attained “a distinct character of its own.” international reputation as a living Old Master. The author of The History of American Painting was a fifty- The national reputation of the Boston School artists was year-old artist based in New York, a metropolis whose competi - bolstered by its images of female models presented in tive spirit precluded a sense of aesthetic solidarity. Isham argued rarefied settings. Samuel Isham argued in his History that the that the artists derived their creative edge from the fact that artistic worship of the “beauty and purity of young girls” was their home upheld the “artist’s standpoint” – in other words, an important and nationally relevant subject for modern Amer - the new Boston artists (as opposed to the local critics, dealers ican artists. Even though “the homage to the eternal feminine” and collectors) had the clout to set their own standard for ex - already had a long history in Europe, he felt that idealized de - cellence. As it evolved the Boston School came to favor simple pictions of secular women were destined to supplant the reli - and harmonious compositions, reflecting the arts and crafts gious and mythological idols and goddesses that had inspired philosophy and the burgeoning knowledge of the principles of art in previous centuries. In 1892, the legendary Boston collec - Japanese design. Indeed, the Boston-trained painter and print - tor Isabella Stewart Gardner purchased Johannes Vermeer’s The maker Arthur Wesley Dow expertly summarized these ap - Concert (c. 1665), and it became a catalyst for local artists. The proaches in his landmark book Composition (1899). charming composition featured two women in simple pearl The new style of Boston painting had, as Isham noted, a necklaces entertaining a man who sits with his back to the certain breadth and texture and a "quivering" light, but artists viewer. Two centuries after Vermeer, Ter Borch, and De Hooch pursued these effects according to their instincts and therefore painted scenes of refined social interaction, the Boston School to different ends.
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