Guy Rose American impressionist Author:Will South Guy Rose: American Impressionist, By Will South. 188 pages, 130 color plates, and 30 black-and-white illustrations. The publication of Guy Rose: American Impressionist marks the rediscovery of an American master of the Impressionist style of painting after more than half a century of virtual neglect. Guy Rose received a traditional late-ninetee... more »nth-century academic art training, first in his native California and later in Paris. During the first two decades of the twentieth century he divided his time between the French village of Giverny made famous by Claude Monet, and California, In France Rose learned the luminous Impressionist painting strategies that he transferred to the Pacific coastal scenes he painted when he returned to California.
Author Will South traces the life story of this artist, born into a prominent Southern California pioneer family who found success, despite adversity in the international art world that spanned continents and oceans, from San Francisco to France and from New York to Southern California.
Illustrated by dozens of paintings, most of them never before published, this book reveals Guy Rose's mastery of several styles in a variety of subjects, from early still lifes to intimate figure studies, from picturesque scenes of the French countryside to spectacular views of California's Pacific coast at Laguna Beach and Carmel/ Monterey.
This publication, which includes not only essays but also a detailed chronology of the artist's life and an extensive exhibition record, will provide new and revised information that will serve as a welcome addition to the history of American art.« less
ISBN-13: 9781882140077 ISBN-10: 1882140079 Pages:119 Edition:First Edition (US) F Rating: