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Roy Gamble

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Roy C. Gamble (1887 - 1972) was active/lived in Michigan.  Roy Gamble is known for Landscape, genre, figure, portrait painting.

Roy C. Gamble   (1887-1972)

Roy Charles Gamble was born on June 12, 1887, the son of George and Lena Gamble.  His father, an Englishman by birth, had immigrated to the United States in 1876 and made a living as a brick mason. 

Known primarily as a portrait painter, Gamble studied under Joseph Gies and John P. Wicker at the Detroit Academy of Fine Arts; in 1909 at the Art Students League in New York under Robert Henri and William Merritt Chase; and in Paris at the Julian Academy under Jean-Paul Laurens.  The artist exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1910 and 1911.  In 1914, shortly after his return from Europe, he was commissioned by the Detroit Free Press to do a series of six murals about the early history of Detroit.  Among his best known portraits were those of Mayor Cobo and Governors Frank Murphy, William Comstock and Frank D. Fitzgerald.  He also did street-scenes and landscapes.  The artist was a popular member and consist   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1466 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Roy Gamble available:    Robert Hopkin,  Joseph Gies,  Charles Waltensperger,  Archie Palmer (Archibald) Wigle,  Mathias Joseph Alten,  Douglas Arthur Teed,  Sarkis Sarkisian,  Cornelius Zwaan,  Georgia Carroll,  Charles Culver,  Tunis Ponsen,  Julius Rolshoven,  Marshall Fredericks,  Richard Jerzy,  William Benecke,  Henry Ossawa Tanner,  John Califano,  George Ehrenfried Grosz,  Harold Cohn,  Pierre Bittar,  Charles Paul Gruppe,  George Howell Gay,  George Benjamin Luks,  Abraham Walkowitz



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15 Book References for Roy Gamble
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
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
2002 Spanierman Gallery Art for the New Collector 1840-2001
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1989 Barrie, Dennis Artists in Michigan 1900-1976 A Biographical Dictionary, Wayne State University 240 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Weber, Nicholas Fox American Painters Of the Impressionist Period Rediscovered 104 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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