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An example of work by Cameron Booth
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  A painter of American landscapes and an art teacher in New York City
and Minneapolis, Cameron Booth painted in both realist or
post-impressionist styles as and abstract styles including
Cubism. Late in his career he adopted Abstract Expressionism
including gestural techniques. Many of his realist paintings of
rural Minnesota make him part of the American Scene movement with his
depictions of iron mining towns, struggling farmers, Indian
reservations and other hard-living conditions is Minnesota during the
1930s.
He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and studied at the Art
Students League of Chicago, with Andre L'hote in Paris, and Hans
Hofmann in Munich. From 1944 to 1948 and 1948 to 1954, he taught
at The Art Students League in New York City and from 1948 to 1960 at
the Minneapolis School of art, which became the Minneapolis College of
Art and Design.
While a student in Chicago, he attended the
Armory Show of 1913, which introduced avant-garde styles from Europe to
America. Booth became interested in Picasso, Cezanne and Braque and
stayed in Europe after serving in World War I.
Sources include:
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
http://www.mmaa.org/Booth.html (Minnesota Museum of American Art)
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Biography from Kramer Gallery, Inc.:
| A prominent painter in both Regionalist and Abstract Expressionist
styles, Cameron Booth had a national career from the 1920s through the
1970s. Booth was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and studied art at
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Twice a student of
the influential German artist Hans Hoffman in both Munich and New York,
as well as a student of Cubist Andre L'hote in Paris, Booth absorbed
modernism at its European source. In 1921 he came to Minnesota to
teach at the Minneapolis School of Art (today the Minneapolis College
of Art and Design) and found new subject matter in Minnesota’s
landscapes, farms and Indian peoples.
Booths’s 1920s works bring Post-Impressionist form and color to
Midwestern scenes, which were also his primary subject matter during
the 1930s. In following decades he painted in a thoroughly Abstract
Expressionist mode. A traveling exhibition of Booth’s abstract
paintings was organized by the American Federation of Arts and
circulated nationally, starting in 1961.
Booth was also an important teacher of modernist ideas and methods at
the Art Students League in New York and later at the University of
Minnesota, where his many students included Pop artist James
Rosenquist. A collection of archival materials documenting
Booth’s career is at the Minnesota Historical Society.
Written and submitted by Thomas O'Sullivan, museum curator and freelance writer.
Sources include:
Nina M. Archabal, “In Memoriam Cameron Booth 1892-1980: a Chronicle from his Scrapbooks,” Minnesota HIstory (Fall 1980)
American Federation of Arts, CAMERON BOOTH (1961)
Museums
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis MN
Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul MN
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul MN
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
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