1895 (ca.), Edward Herbert Barnard, Fields and Pastures -- American University Museum (Washington)
From the museum label:
Edward Barnard thought he wanted to be an architect and from 1872-1874 took classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But painting became a bigger draw. After studying at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Barnard set sail for France in about 1866. Like others from America, he enrolled in the Académie Julian and took classes with Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888) and Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911). Before he returned to America in 1889, he learned he had been accepted to exhibit in the American pavilion at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition, and that he again had a painting in the Paris Salon. Both set the stage for his success in America.
While grateful for his classic art training, Barnard was among several other young Americans artists who admired the plein-air paintings of Claude Monet (1840- 1926). Light-filled, calm pastoral vistas characterized his adaptation of Impressionism.
1895 (ca.), Edward Herbert Barnard, Fields and Pastures -- American University Museum (Washington)
From the museum label:
Edward Barnard thought he wanted to be an architect and from 1872-1874 took classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But painting became a bigger draw. After studying at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Barnard set sail for France in about 1866. Like others from America, he enrolled in the Académie Julian and took classes with Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888) and Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911). Before he returned to America in 1889, he learned he had been accepted to exhibit in the American pavilion at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition, and that he again had a painting in the Paris Salon. Both set the stage for his success in America.
While grateful for his classic art training, Barnard was among several other young Americans artists who admired the plein-air paintings of Claude Monet (1840- 1926). Light-filled, calm pastoral vistas characterized his adaptation of Impressionism.