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Mathias Joseph Alten

Mathias Joseph Alten (1871 - 1938) was active/lived in Michigan, California.  Mathias Alten is known for Impressionist sea-landscape, portrait and rural scene painting.

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Work in Permanent Collections:

Everson Museum of Art; University of Michigan Museum of Art; Muskegon Museum of Art; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Dennos Museum Center; Michigan Historical Museum; Grand Valley State University Art Collection; Aquinas College Art Collection; Calvin College Art Collection; Grand Rapids Community College; Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society; Spectrum Health Systems, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Ferris State University, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, Cooley Law School, Grand Rapids, Michigan Campus.

The George and Barbara Gordon Gallery on the Grand Valley State University campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is dedicated to the permanent display of paintings by Mathias Alten. (Connell)

Periodical:
The Literary Digest October 12, 1929, color cover "Cabanal Fishermen"

Sources:

Information provided by James A. Straub, who publishes a catalog raisonne on the artist at www.mathiasalten.com
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Research resources

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Mathias Joseph Alten


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art MethodArt MediaArt Style
  • Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
  • Indians, Native Americans
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Self-Portrait
  • Spanish Missions, California
  • Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • California Before 1940
  • Europe
  • France Before 1900
  • Italy Before World War I
  • Michigan Before 1940
  • New Mexico Before 1940
  • Old Lyme, Connecticut
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
  • Rockport, Massachusetts
  • Taos, New Mexico Before 1940
Art Association
  • National Arts Club, New York
  • Scarab Club, Detroit
  • Society of Western Artists (1896-1914)
Art Teacher
  • Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant
  • James McNeill Whistler
  • Jean Paul Laurens
Art School
  • Academie Julian, Paris, Student
  • Academy Colarossi, Paris, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
  • Genre Specialty
  • Landscape Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
  • German
Artist Colony
  • Old Lyme Artist Colony
Exhibition of Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • Society of Western Artists (1896-1914)-
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago

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