Joseph DeCamp

Joseph DeCamp Rodefer (also De Camp; born November 5, 1858 in Cincinnati, † February 11, 1923 in Boca Grande, Florida) was an American painter of Tonalism and impressionism.

Life

DeCamp studied with Frank Duveneck in Boston and went with this in the second half of the 1870s to the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, spent some time in Florence and subsequently returned back to Boston in 1883. There he became a member of the Boston led by Edmund Charles Tarbell School and focused on portrait painting. In the 1890s he took part in the style of Tonalism and 1897 he was one of the founders of the Impressionist group of artists Ten American Painters. Due to a fire in his Boston studio burned in 1904, several hundred of his early paintings, including nearly all landscapes.

Works (selection)

The Blue Cup, 1909

The Kreutzer Sonata to 1912-1914

The Steward, 1919