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Guy Rose: American Impressionist
9/13/1996 - 11/10/1996
The Norton Museum of Art will showcase the paintings of American
Impressionist Guy Rose September 13, 1996 through November 10, 1996.
The colorful landscapes of the French countryside and Rose's
Southern California heartland are the subjects of most of his works.
While the influence of French Impressionists, especially Claude
Monet, is evident in most of Rose's paintings, his delicacy and mood
set Rose apart and establish him as a true American talent.
It is only recently that the work of Guy Rose has come to
prominence. Recent public interest in the Impressionist style has
led to the discovery and inevitable appreciation of lesser known
French and American Impressionists, among them, Guy Rose. When Guy
Rose died at the age of fifty-eight, apparently from lead poisoning,
his accomplishments seemed few. The number of extant paintings, as
well as the scope and range of his subjects were, it seemed,
limited. However, research and discovery in the past few years has
helped to uncover paintings and a talent that has been virtually
neglected for the past half century.
Guy Rose received a traditional late-ninteenth-century academic art
training, first in his native California and later in Paris. Rose
spent roughly twenty years, off and on, in France. He studied at the
Academie Julian in Paris and was the first Californian to receive an
award from the Paris Salon. He later lived and painted in Giverny,
the home of Claude Monet. In 1912, Rose left France permanently and
made his way back home to California, settling in Pasadena in 1914
and serving as the director of the Stickney School of Art. In
France, Rose, inspired by Monet's luminous landscapes, learned the
Impressionist painting strategies that he transferred to the Pacific
coastal scenes he painted when he returned to California. The fact
that Guy Rose spent his most productive years in California, far
from the East coast where many of his Giverny colleagues settled and
made art history, has delayed the national recognition his work
deserves.
Of all the artists that resided in Giverny around the turn of the
century, Rose's work is most like Monet's in brushwork, color range,
the use of dry pigment and the "fishhook" stroke. These likenesses
support Rose's claim of having studied directly with the master, who
was famous for avoiding potential proteges. Rose did, however,
develop his own style and themes, independent of Monet. Rose, and
other American painters in Giverny, often included a dominant
figure, typically a female figure in a passive mood, in a landscape
or an interior. The feeling was delicate and the intention was to
dissolve three-dimensional objects into the atmosphere.
And while Rose did incorporate Monet's approach to painting
outdoors, he did not exactly follow Monet's example of painting in
series - a single subject depicted at various hours of the day. He
did, however, revisit many locations to create two or more
variations of one subject at different times of the day or the year.
Special light effects were important to Rose as they were to all
Impressionists. Rose, however, was unique in his ability to convey a
truthful observation of a landscape and its many personalities.
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