Charles Courtney Curran

Charles Courtney Curran ( born February 13, 1861 in Hartford, Kentucky, † November 9, 1942 in Manhattan, New York) was an American painter.

Life

Curran was a son of the commercial agent Ulysses Thompson Curran and his wife Elizabeth. At 18, he visited in 1879 year, the Cincinnati School of Design. When his family around 1880 settled in Sandusky (Ohio ), he joined and left again this school.

1882 Curran went to New York, where he studied until 1887 at the National Academy of Design. Then he went, sponsored by his teachers to Paris, where he was at the Académie Julian student of Jean -Joseph Benjamin -Constant, Henri Lucien Doucet and Jules -Joseph Lefebvre. At the annual exhibition of the Salon de Paris in 1890 one of his works was publicly praised and awarded. Also at the World Expo 1890 in Paris pictures were exhibited by him.

After his return to the United States was entrusted Curran in New York with various teaching assignments; inter alia, Pratt Institute, at Cooper Union and at the National Academy of Design. During this time, Curran also married and settled in Cragsmoor, a village near the Shawankgunk Mountains in Ulster County, NY There he built also a spacious studio and in time established itself around him a small group of artists. Curran was so over time the new fixed point of the Cragsmoor Art Colony, an artists' colony, which had been founded by Edward Lamson Henry.

Since his return from Paris Curran worked as a freelancer for the magazine Palette & Brush; for this magazine, he wrote essays regularly.

Memberships

  • Allied Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society
  • Lotos Club
  • MacDowell Club
  • National Arts Club
  • New York Water Color Club
  • Salmagundi Club
  • Society of American Artists

Works (selection)

  • Lotus lilies. 1888
  • An afternoon respite. 1894
  • Heirlooms. 1922
  • Betty Newell. 1922 ( Portrait )
  • Among the hollyhocks. 1904
  • Blueberries and ferns. 1911
  • The huckleberry picker. 1922
  • Ladies on a hill. 1914
  • Dolly's portrait. 1901
  • Lucky in yellow. 1893
  • Three women. 1894
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