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E Ambrose Webster

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E. Ambrose Webster (1869 - 1935) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  E Webster is known for Modernist painting and teaching.

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 A painter, lecturer, teacher and also a descendant of Daniel Webster, E Ambrose Webster was a prominent and pioneering proponent of modernism on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  By his own painting as well as lecturing and writing, he promoted a style that moved beyond Impressionism to a Fauve-like handling of color.  One of his writings was a booklet on color.  He was criticized by traditionalists for participating in the 1913 New York Armory Show that showcased modernism.

Webster was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Art with Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell.  From 1896 to 1898, he studied in Paris at the Academie Julian with Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant.

In 1900 in Provincetown, he established a summer school of painting, the Webster Art School, and was active in the Provincetown Art Association.  He also traveled frequently in Bermuda.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for E Ambrose Webster


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Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art MethodArt MediaArt Style
  • Cubism, Cubist
  • Fauve, Fauvism, Strong, Vivid Coloration
  • Impressionism Before 1940
  • Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
  • Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Seascapes, Seasides
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Bermuda
  • Boston Before 1900
  • Cape Cod, Massachusetts
  • Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art Association
  • Boston Art Club
  • Provincetown Art Association-
  • Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
  • Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant
  • Edmund Tarbell
  • Frank Benson
  • Jean Paul Laurens
Art School
  • Academie Julian, Paris, Student
  • School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Figure Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/InternationalExhibition of Art Association
  • Boston Art Club-
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Special Venue, Art Parks
  • Armory Show 1913, New York

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