Biography from Stagecoach Gallery:
| Aaron Draper Shattuck ranks as a first class artist of the 2nd
generation Hudson River School. He exhibited regularly with such
artists as John Kensett and Samuel Colman. His paintings range in
subject from White Mountain scenes to animal pictures. Shattuck was at
his best with his preference for smaller canvases.
His love of nature was translated into small, detailed paintings ,
highlighted with elm trees, luminious sky, and rough New England
rocks. In 1868 Shattuck bought a 28 acre farm in Granby,
Connecticut. It was here that he painted his favorite sheep and cattle.
The following was taken from French's book of Artists in Connecticut
in 1879. "The artist is a faithful student of his art, and at
present makes a specialty of sheep and cows, where he excells many and
is excelled by few".
He was also a successful inventor and had various patents ranging in
subject from metal stretcher keys to tobacco barn ventilation.
When his eyesight deteriorated in 1888, he finished his career as a
violin maker. He was always known as an affable gentleman.
In 1856 he was elected associate member of the National Academy, and in
1861, he was Elected to full National Academician. From 1874 -
1877 he exhibited paintings of sheep and cattle at the Brooklyn Art
Association and the National Academy.
In 1925 the last painting he exhibited was Sheep Near The Sea at the National Academy Centenial Exhibition.
In 1928 he died at the age of 98 years at his farm in Granby, Connecticut. |
Biography from Heritage Auctions -Texas Art:
| Born in Francestown, New Hampshire, Aaron Shattuck was educated there
and in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied portrait and landscape
painting with Alexander Ramson in Boston during 1851 and then moved to
New York where he studied at the the National Academy of Design.
In
1856, he was elected an Associate Member of the Academy, and rented
space in the now famous Studio Building on West Tenth Street. He
exhibited regularly in Boston and New York and was closely associated
with John Kensett, John Casilear and Jasper Cropsey. He also had
a summer studio in Jackson, New Hampshire.
He was a
second-generation Hudson School painter and specialized in scenes of
the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Married to the sister of
artist Samuel Colman, he was one of the first artists to paint on
Monhegan Island in Maine. Many of his paintings are of animals in
landscape and are scenes from his farm in Granby, Connecticut.
Shattuck
was also an inventor, patenting a special stretcher frame in the 1880s
and he made violins. I llness forced him to quit painting about 1885.
Source:
David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
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Aaron Shattuck is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Hudson River School Painters
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