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James Champney

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James Wells Champney (1843 - 1903) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New York.  James Champney is known for Genre, figure, portrait, landscape paintings.

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 James Wells Champney, a distant cousin of landscapist Benjamin Champney, was born in 1843 in Boston, Massachusetts.  A well-known artist-teacher, he is best known as a specialist in rustic genre scenes, using a broad, painterly, and rather informal approach to his works.  He also painted many portraits and landscapes, and stylistically was "one of the first Americans to grasp and utilize the spirit of impressionism." (397)

As a young man he took drawing classes at Lowell Institute and studied anatomy under Oliver Wendell Holmes.  At sixteen years of age, he was an apprentice to a wood engraver*, but terminated the relationship to serve in the Civil War in 1862. He contracted malaria and was discharged from the military, and soon taught drawing classes at Dr. Dio Lewis's Young Ladies Seminary for two years beginning in 1864.

Deciding to become a professional artist, Champney left for Europe in October of 1866.  His first stop was London, and a month l   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7853 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for James Champney available:    Benjamin Champney,  James (Colonel) Fairman,  Nicolai S (Nicola) Cikovsky,  William Chadwick,  Robert Swain Gifford,  George Henry Hall,  John Appleton Brown,  Samuel Lancaster Gerry,  Joseph Pennell,  Allen Dean Cochran,  Lillian Mathilde Genth,  Karl Witkowski,  William de Leftwich Dodge,  Elliott Daingerfield,  John White Alexander,  Samuel S Carr,  John Bunyan Bristol,  Alfred Wordsworth Thompson,  John Dolph,  Edward Dufner,  Edward Lamson Henry,  Louis Kronberg,  John Ross Key,  Middleton Manigault



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Facts about James Champney

   Publications  Book References:  50
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for James Champney
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Historic Deerfield June 2004 Friary, Donald R Yes
American Art Review Smith College Museum of Art June 2004 Muehlig, Linda Yes
50 Book References for James Champney
Year Author Title Pages Color
2009 Katlan, Alexander W. Salmagundi Club Painting Exhibition Records 1940-1951 and Water Color Exhibition Records 1900-1951 623 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2000 Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942 606 No
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1995 Libby, Gary R (editor) Celebrating Florida Works of Art from the Vickers Collection 144 Yes
1993 Reed, Sue Welsh/Carol Troyen Awash in Color Homer, Sargent and the Great American Watercolor
(Exhibition catalog)		 266 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 495 Yes
1991 Baekland, Frederick Images of America The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1991 Schwarz, Robert D. (Editor) American Watercolors and Pastels: Schwarz-Philadelphia
(Exhibition catalog)		 76 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Florida Arts Celebration Florida Visionaries: 1870-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1989 Spanierman Gallery American Works on Paper III
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1989 Weber, Bruce Drawn from Tradition: American Drawings and Watercolors: From the Collection of Susan and Herbert Adler, Neuberger Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 185 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Richard York Gallery An American Gallery (Volume IV)
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
1986 Baur, John I.H. The Figure in American Art 1764-1983 Three Simultaneous Exhibitions: Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Edwards, Lee M; Jan Seidler Ramirez; Timothy Anglin Burgard Domestic Bliss Family Life in American Painting 1840-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Adamson, Jeremy Elwell Niagara Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes 1697-1901
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Nygren, Edward/Julie R Myers Of Time and Place American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1979 Ballinger, James K Beyond the Endless River W American Drawings, W/C-19th Cen
(Exhibition catalog)		 182 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1977 Benjamin, S G W Our American Artists 1879 and 1881 (reprints in one volume) 145 No
1977 Hoopes, Donelson F American Watercolor Painting 208 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1973 University of Kansas Museum American Drawings and Watercolors 80 No
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1971 Gerdts, William H 19th Century American Painting From the Collection of Henry Melville Fuller
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 No
1966 Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck History of Water Color in America 160 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1947 Born, Wolfgang Still-Life Painting in America 144 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1898 Hoyt, Deristhe L. The World's Painters and Their Pictures 272 No
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