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Rae Bredin

Rae Sloan Bredin (1881 - 1933) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, New Jersey / France.  Rae Bredin is known for Portrait, landscape and figure painting, murals.

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Co-founder of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the New York School of Fine Arts, Rae Bredin was a Pennsylvania by birth and remained there most of his life.  He was known for his landscape and portrait paintings and especially for his association with the New Hope Impressionist painters, an area he first visited in 1909. (In 1915, the artist and critic Guy Péne du Bois had characterized Pennsylvania Impressionist painting as America's "first truly national expression").

Bredin was commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, to paint a portrait of Dr. Seneca Egbert, professor of hygiene at the medical school there.  He taught at the Chase School of Fine Art, Shinnecock, Long Island, New York; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and the School of Design for Women, Philadelphia, where he trained, and no doubt influenced, the young women students who went on to form "The   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5432 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Rae Bredin


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art MethodArt MediaArt Style
  • Impressionism Before 1940
  • Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Nude Figure, Nudity
  • Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Bucks County, Pennsylvania
  • Europe
  • New Hope, Pennslvania/Lambertville New Jersey
Art Association
  • Allied Artists of America-
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
  • National Arts Club, New York
  • Philadelphia Art Club
  • Philadelphia Sketch Club
  • Portrait Society of America, National Portrait Society
  • Salmagundi Club, New York City
Art Teacher
  • Frank Vincent DuMond
  • James Carroll Beckwith
  • Robert Henri
  • Thomas Eakins
  • William Merritt Chase
Art School
  • New York School of Art (Chase), Teacher
  • Philadelphia School of Design for Women, Teacher
  • Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Student
  • Shinnecock Summer School, Student
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
  • Julius Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Portrait Specialty
Artist Colony
  • New Hope, Pennsylvania
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/InternationalExhibition of Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • National Arts Club
  • Philadelphia Sketch Club-
  • Salmagundi Club, New York City-
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Phillips Mill in New Hope, Pennslyvania

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