Known for satirical genre, especially of high society, Guy Pene Du Bois was a prominent New York artist in the early 20th century, and was part of the group that broke with conventional approaches of the National Academy of Design*. Often his work seemed to have a narrative that was mysterious but addressed issues of urbane sophistication.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in a New Orleans French family whose roots there dated to 1738. His father, Henri Pene du Bois, was a noted cr (showing 500 of 11759 characters). |
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Guy Du Bois is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Flag Painters
New York Armory Show of 1913
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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