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|  Hudson River School style landscapist and genre painter James Crawford
Thom was born in New York City in 1835, though he grew up on a farm
just north of the City in Ramapo, New York. He studied at the
National Academy of Design in New York City as an eighteen-year-old
before going to Paris, where he studied with Camille Corot, Thomas
Couture and Henri Picou. He also studied with Pierre Edouard
Frere whose paintings of children and peasants in the countryside seem
to have influenced Thom, known for his pictures of children
out-of-doors.
A seven-year interlude in London, 1866-1873, led
to exhibitions and increasing awareness of his work there, and in the
latter year to exhibitions in America that encouraged the artist and
his family to return to New York City. They later moved to
Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, where the artist died of pneumonia in
1898.
In 1983, nearly one-hundred years after his death, an
exhibition of James Crawford Thom's work was held in East Brunswick,
New Jersey. His paintings may be seen in the National Museum of
American Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Source:
David Michael Zellman, Three Hundred Years of American Art |
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James Thom is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Hudson River School Painters
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