An American Painter in Venice
Ralph W. Curtis and the Palazzo Barbaro
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2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52914-4 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52914-4 (ISBN)
A biography of American painter Ralph W. Curtis (1854-1922) who graduated at Harvard, studied art in Paris, exhibited in the salons in Paris. He met Robert Browning, Henry James, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Venetian painters at the Palazzo Barbaro, in Venice.
A biography of the American painter Ralph W. Curtis (1854-1922), of the Boston family who bought the Palazzo Barbaro on the Grand Canal in Venice in 1885. After graduating at Harvard, Curtis moved to Paris to study art with Carolus Duran, where he met his distant cousin John S. Sargent, with whom he travelled to Holland to see Franz Hals’s paintings. He exhibited at the Paris salons, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, at the Venice Biennale in the 1880s. At Palazzo Barbaro he met Robert Browning, Henry James, but also Venetian painters such as Ettore Tito and Antonio Mancini. He travelled widely, even to Japan and India. His works are in American Museums and private collections.
A biography of the American painter Ralph W. Curtis (1854-1922), of the Boston family who bought the Palazzo Barbaro on the Grand Canal in Venice in 1885. After graduating at Harvard, Curtis moved to Paris to study art with Carolus Duran, where he met his distant cousin John S. Sargent, with whom he travelled to Holland to see Franz Hals’s paintings. He exhibited at the Paris salons, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, at the Venice Biennale in the 1880s. At Palazzo Barbaro he met Robert Browning, Henry James, but also Venetian painters such as Ettore Tito and Antonio Mancini. He travelled widely, even to Japan and India. His works are in American Museums and private collections.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations XI
Introduction
1 Ralph Wormeley Curtis, the Painter
2 The Beginnings. Boston, Cambridge, Newport
3 Paris and Europe
4 Rome
5 Venice and the Palazzo Barbaro
6 Venice, Whistler and Sargent
7 Venice and the Esposizione Nazionale of 1887
8 Isabella Stewart Gardner
9 Japan and India
10 Marriage and the New Century
11 “The Verdict” by Edith Wharton: The End of a Painter
Appendix: Curtis’s Notes on the 1879 Munich Exhibition
Ralph Curtis and Venice. The Golden Hours
Bibliography
Index of Names
Erscheinungsdatum | 28.12.2023 |
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Reihe/Serie | Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History ; 69 |
Co-Autor | Elisabetta Barisoni |
Verlagsort | Leiden |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 571 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik | |
ISBN-10 | 90-04-52914-4 / 9004529144 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-52914-4 / 9789004529144 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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