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Charles Sprague Pearce

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Charles Sprague Pearce (1851 - 1914) was active/lived in Massachusetts / France.  Charles Pearce is known for Genre, portrait, landscape, religion.

Charles Pearce was a painter best known for his portraits and genre scenes. In 1851, Pearce was born in Boston and named after his grandfather, a poet. He embarked upon a career as a painter and in 1873, with the advice of William Morris Hunt, an early American impressionist, moved to Paris to study at the Leon Bonnat School.

At the Leon Bonnat School, he studied with fellow student, John Singer Sargent, and soon became a member of an artist's circle consisting of other expatriates including Chester Loomis, Edwin Blashfield, and Milne Ramsey.

Pearce's sentimental interpretation of rural life in Northern France was allied in style and subject matter to the French academic peasant painters. His subjects were often exotic versions of the craftsman genre themes popularized in the United States during the 1880s and 1890s by such artists as Edgar Melville Ward and Jefferson David Chalfant.

Pearce remained an expatriate, settling his studio 20 miles outside of Paris in   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1611 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  45
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Charles Sprague Pearce
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Americans in Paris, 1850-1910 October 2003 Weinberg, H Barbara Yes
American Art Review Two Centuries/Museum Amer Art December 1994 Yount, Sylvia Yes
45 Book References for Charles Sprague Pearce
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
2005 Reis, Mary Clare; Lisa N. Peters et all Fine American Art from 1845 to 1960 (Spanierman Gallery, LLC
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
2003 Oklahoma City Museum Americans in Paris, 1850-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
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
1999 Terra Museum of American Art The City and The Country: American Perspectives, 1870-1920 56 No
1997 The Dayton Art Institute American Art From the Dicke Collection 264 Yes
1995 Weisberg, Gabriel P Redefining Genre French and American Painting 1850-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 408 Yes
1993 Lublin, Mary A Rare Elegance: The Paintings of Charles Sprague Pearce
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 Yes
1992 Weisberg, Gabriel P Beyond Impressionism The Naturalist Impulse 303 Yes
1991 Weinberg, H Barbara The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers 295 Yes
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 Marlais, Michael Andrew Americans and Paris
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 Yes
1989 Blaugrund, Annette Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition
(Exhibition catalog)		 304 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 National Gallery of Art American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 203 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Ward, Meredith (essay) Adventure and Inspiration American Artists in Other Lands
(Exhibition catalog)		 172 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 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 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1983 Detroit Institute of the Arts The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 Yes
1982 Sellin, David / J K Ballinger Americans in Brittany and Normand 1868-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 229 Yes
1980 Burke, Doreen Bolger American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64 479 No
1978 Trumble, Alfred Representative Works of Contemporary American Artists 139 No
1977 Sheldon, George William Recent Ideals of Americn Art 176 No
1977 Weinberg, H Barbara (intro) Book of American Figure Painters (Art Experience, Late 19th Cen/ no. 11) 240 No
1976 Quick, Michael American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century (The Dayton Art Institute)
(Exhibition catalog)		 158 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1898 Hoyt, Deristhe L. The World's Painters and Their Pictures 272 No
1897 Small, Herbert (compiler) Handbook of the New Library of Congress in Washington 128 No
1893 Kurtz, Charles (editor) The Art Gallery Illustrated World's Columbian Exposition 383 No
1886 J B Lippincott Company American Art From American Figure Painters 100 No
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