George Randolph Barse

George Randolph Barse, Jr. ( born July 31, 1861 in Detroit, Michigan, † February 1938 in Katonah, Westchester County, New York) was an American painter.

Life

His school days ended Barse 1878 in Kansas City and went to France in the same year. He settled in Paris and was at the École des Beaux -Arts student of Alexandre Cabanel. With their support, he moved later to the Académie Julian, where he was most often by Jules- Joseph Lefebvre ( nude and portrait painting) and Gustave Boulanger taught ( salon style ).

In the fall of 1883 Barse returned to the United States. Until the spring of 1889 he lived alternately in New York and the Texas Panhandle, and then returned to Europe. After a short stay in Paris for six years Barse went to Italy. After a long study tour of Italy, he settled in Rome. There he married in 1891 Rosina Ferrara.

In the autumn of 1895 Barse returned with his wife back to the United States. They settled in New York and moved in 1904 after Katonah ( Westchester County). In addition to his artistic work Barse worked as a lecturer at the Art Students League of New York. When his wife died in 1934, Barse fell into depression and three years later he committed suicide by carbon monoxide.

Honors

1895 awarded the National Academy of Design (New York) his work with a " First Prize ".

Works (selection)

• Vanity.
• The oasis.
• Night and the declining day. 1897.
• A pensive lady in a spring meadow. In 1892.
• The broken pitcher. In 1883.
• The return. In 1921.