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Still Life with Potted Fern, Apples and Jug
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Lucien Abrams was a landscape, portrait, and still life painter as well as an architect. He was also a member of the Old Lyme Colony, in Old Lyme, Connecticut where he arrived in 1915 when he was age forty-five and already an established landscape painter.
Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Abrams was from a wealthy family and traveled abroad extensively as a young man. In 1873, he moved to Texas with his family, and he attended schools in Dallas. He graduated in 1892 from Princeton University with a degree in art and architecture and then went to New York where he attended the Art Students League. In 1894, he went to Europe where he studied at the Academy Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant and began his life-long passion of collecting the paintings of Auguste Renoir. Upon his death, Abrams bequeathed his Renoir collection to the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas.
From 1902 to 1914, he exhibited in Paris at the Salon exhibitions, and his work shows influences of Impressionism, Post Impressionism, and Fauvism. During the early 1900s, he also painted in Belgium, Brittany, France, Italy and Spain, lived in Fort Worth, Texas (1900) for six months, and painted in New York and Rockport, Massachusetts.
In 1914, he and his wife, Charlotte Gina Onillon, a Parisien woman, built a home in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and divided their time from then on between his family place in Dallas, a winter home in San Antonio, a villa on the Mediterranean, and a summer home in Old Lyme. During these years, he painted in the Deep South including New Orleans and Charleston.
As a painter, he worked with a limited palette, combining swatches of color, something that worked effectively in his landscapes but was not admired in his figure work. ("American Art Review")
Lucien Abrams died in New Haven, Connecticut in 1941.
Source:
"American Art Review", November 1996
"Texas Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists", John and Deborah Powers
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Exhibition Record (Museums, Institutions and Awards):
Paris Salon, 1899, 1902-14 | |
Memberships:
Lyme Art Association; Societe du Salon d’Automme; Societe des Artists Independants; San Antonio Art Association; American Federation of Art. |
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born Lawrence, June 10, 1870; died New Haven, CT, Apr. 14, 1941. Painter, specialized in landscape, portrait, and still life. Architect. Born into a wealthy Lawrence family, he moved with his family to Dallas, TX in 1873 and attended schools there. Graduate of Princeton in 1892 and student at the Arts Students League in New York. Went abroad in 1894 and studied at Academié Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens and with Benjamin Constant, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Exhibited at the Paris Salons while painting in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and France. Moved to Old Lyme, CT in 1914 becoming an active member of the Old Lyme art colony and exhibiting annually for the next two decades with the Lyme Art Association. Abrams also spent part of each year in Dallas, San Antonio, and France. He bequeathed his collection of Pierre-Auguste Renoir paintings to the Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute in San Antonio. | Source:
COLLECTIONS:
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Florence Griswold House, Lyme, CT.
MEMBERSHIPS:
Lyme Art Association; Societe du Salon d’Automme; Societe des Artists Independants; San Antonio Art Association; American Federation of Art.
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Sain, Lydia. Kansas Artists, compiled by Lydia Sain from 1932 to 1948. Typed Manuscript, 1948.; Newlin, Gertrude Dix (Development of Art in Kansas. Typed Manuscript, 1951), Gertrude Dix (Development of Art in Kansas. Typed Manuscript, 1951); Reinbach, Edna, comp. “Kansas Art and Artists”, in Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. v. 17, 1928. p. 571-585., Edna, comp. “Kansas Art and Artists”, in Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. v. 17, 1928. p. 571-585.; Fielding, Mantle. Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, with an Addendum containing Corrections and Additional Material on the Original Entries. Compiled by James F. Carr. New York: James F. Carr Publ., 1965.; Festival of Kansas Arts and Crafts. Catalog: Arts and Crafts of Kansas: an Exhibition held in Lawrence, Feb. 18-22, 1948 in the Community Building. Lawrence: World Co., 1948; American Art Annual. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1898-1947 12,14, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27; Who’s Who in American Art. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1936- v.1=1936-37 v.3= 1941-42 v.2=1938-39 v.4=1940-47. 1, 2, 3, 4; NMAA Files (pamphlet file at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC); Dawdy 2: Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. Artists of the American West: A Biographical Dictionary. Volume 2. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1981.; “French Influence in Abrams” Art Digest (May 1, 1934); American Art Rev. (Nov. 1996); AskArt, http://www/askart.com, accessed July 22, 2005; Fink, Lois Marie. American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons. Washington: Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990. | | This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas. |
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Old Lyme Colony Painters
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