Biography from Edenhurst Gallery (Artists M to Z):
| Joseph Raphael was a California artist born in Jackson, California in 1869. He is known largely as an expatriate painter, spending most of his artistic career in Holland, France, and Belgium.
He first studied in San Francisco at the School of Design under famous California artist Arthur Mathews. At the turn of the twentieth century he turned his studies to Europe and in Paris studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academie Julian.
Raphael was a very prolific painter whose style was very expressive, often painting in thick layers of heavy impasto applied with a brush. His paintings of flower gardens and of children in outdoors scenes are very colorful and im some ways similar to the technique used by an earlier European generation, especially post impressionist artists like Vincent van Gogh.
His work is represented in several major California museums. He exhibited extensively in the Paris Salon exhibitions as well as in San Francisco, winning a gold medal at the Panama Pacific Expo in 1915. |
Biography from William A. Karges Fine Art - Carmel:
| | Joseph Raphael was born in Jackson, California, in 1869, and studied at the San Francisco School of Design before leaving for Paris to attend the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academie Julian. While continuing to exhibit his works in galleries in San Francisco, Raphael would remain a resident of Europe for 37 years. Only with the approach of WW II did he return to California, where his pure Impressionist style was well received. |
Biography from AskART:
| Considered a foremost exponent of pure French Impressionism, Joseph Raphael spent much of his career in Europe although California lays a strong claim to him. He was both a painter and etcher and was born in Jackson, California in 1869.
At age eighteen, Raphael began a ten-year study period at the School of Design in San Francisco under Arthur Mathews and Douglas Tilden. In 1902 he furthered his art studies in Paris at Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Academie Julian under Laurens. Europe remained his home for the next thirty-seven years, spending most of his time in Holland, France, and Belgium while his San Francisco agent exhibited his paintings regularly in local shows.
With World War II approaching, he moved to San Francisco in 1939 and maintained a studio at 345 Sutter Street until his death on December 11, 1950.
His early works were influenced by Dutch genre painting, but his proximity to the French Impressionists soon lightened his palette. Internationally known, he was one of the foremost advocates of Impressionism in California. He was primarily an oil painter, and his oeuvre also includes watercolors, etching, pen and ink drawings, and woodcuts.
He had a family of five children and often used them as models in settings of flower and vegetable gardens. He was a member of the San Francisco Art Association and the California Society of Etchers.
Source: Artists in California, 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes
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Joseph Raphael is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Impressionists Pre 1940
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
California Painters
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