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Guy Pene Du Bois

Guy Pene Du Bois (1884 - 1958) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts / France.  Guy Du Bois is known for Figure, genre, carnival and interior painting.

Guy Pene du Bois was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 4, 1884 into a well-to-do intellectual New Orleans family.  His father Henri Pene du Bois was a noted critic and his son grew up in a highly cultured atmosphere in literary circles.  He was named for the French writer Guy de Maupassant who was a close family friend.  He dropped out of high school in 1899, and he became the youngest student in William Merrit Chase's school from 1899 to 1905.  He also studied with J.C.Beckwith, Frank Dumond, Robert Henri, Kenneth Hayes Miller and at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere with Theophile A.Steinlen.

He worked as police and court reporter for the New York American, New York Tribune, and the New York Evening Post and was editor of Arts and Decoration Magazine for seven years.  He often pursued a dual career, earning a reputation as both an artist and a critic.  He is best remembered for his paintings of the 1920s o   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8338 characters.]  Artist bio

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