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Birth
1879 (Montreal, Quebec Canada)
Death
1954 (Oakland, California)
Lived/Active
California/Quebec / Canada
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Often Known For
landscape, genre and portrait painting, etching
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Categories of Interest
Fauves/Fauvism
Impressionists Pre 1940
Society of Six
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A man who earned a prestigious reputation in Canada and the United States, William Henry Clapp was a painter and etcher of modernist styles ranging from Impressionism to Fauvism to Pointillism.
He was born in Montreal and moved to Oakland, California with his family in 1885 and lived there through his childhood until the early 1900s when the family returned to Montreal. His only sister died when she was age seventeen from tuberculosis, and he was so deeply affected he continued to live wi (showing 500 of 8169 characters). |
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