Guy Rose
Guy Orlando Rose ( born March 3 1867 in San Gabriel, California, † November 17, 1925 in Pasadena, California ) was an American painter and is considered one of the main representatives of the California Impressionism in the late 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
Life and work
Guy Rose was the seventh son of the California Senator Leonard John Rose and his wife Amanda Jones Rose. He grew up with his family in the San Gabriel Valley at Rosemead (hence came the name " Rose" ) on the ranch and the vines of his father. In 1876 Guy Rose was shot in a hunting accident by his brother in the face, during the recovery period, he began to draw and paint first water colors and oil paintings. In 1884 he graduated from the Los Angeles High School. He then went to San Francisco to the California School of Design, and studied inter alia Virgil Williams and Emil Carlsen.
On 12 September, Guy Rose wrote at the Académie Julian in Paris and studied here, along with Jean -Joseph Benjamin -Constant, Jules Lefebvre, Lucien Doucet and Jean -Paul Laurens, and Frank Vincent and Frederick Melville. In 1888/1889 he won a scholarship at the Academie Delacluse. In 1890 he exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time, more exhibitions followed in 1891 and 1894.
1891 Guy Rose went back to America and lived in New York City, where he avoided the oil painting mainly as a result of lead poisoning and as an illustrator and teacher at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn was known. 1893/1894 and 1899 he moved but already returned to Paris, where he met his wife Ethel Rose bought together a farm in Giverny. The year 1900 he spent in Paris and the winter of the year in Briska in Algeria, where he painted at least three well-known paintings. 1901 Rose received when attending the World's Fair Pan - American Exposition in Buffalo a bronze medal.
From 1904 to 1912 he and Ethel lived in Giverny and worked with the resident artists. His paintings from this period show the clear influence of the popular Impressionist Claude Monet, whom he met and who became his friend and teacher. In 1910, he exhibited his paintings together with painters such as Richard Miller, Lawton Parker and Frederick Carl Frieseke than Giverny Group in New York City.
From 1913 to 1914, the Roses spent the summer in Narragansett, Rhode Iceland, and gave lessons while sketching in the open countryside. However, Rose continued to suffer from its lead poisoning and moved accordingly in 1914 to recover back to California, where he remained for the rest of his life. In 1915 he participated at the World Expo in San Francisco The 1915 Panama - Pacific Exposition of San Francisco and was rewarded with a silver medal. He taught at the Stickney Memorial School of Art in Pasedena and was from 1919 to 1921, the director of this school. He also served on the boards of the Los Angeles Museum of Science, History and Art and a member of the California Art Club in Los Angeles.
1921 Rose was awarded the William Preston Harrison Prize of the California Art Club, the same year he suffered a stroke and remained paralyzed until his death on 17 November 1925. In 1926 the Stendahl Gallery held a posthumous retrospective exhibition of the works of Guy Rose.
Image selection
La Jolla Cove
The Blue Kimono, 1909
San Gabriel Mission, 1914