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from Auction House Records.
View of Paris from Saint Cloud
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  A onetime magazine illustrator, Harry Lachman, born LaSalle, Indiana June 29, 1886, became one of the leading European Post-Impressionist painters in the teens and twenties. By his late twenties, Lachman had established himself as an artist both in America and Europe. He exhibited in America at the National Academy of Design, New York, as well as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Early on in his career Lachman traveled to Europe to paint and eventually lived at various times in France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. In Europe, the painter's works were accepted at the annual Parisian Salons.
Lachman worked as a set designer with the equally artistically-inclined film maker Rex Ingram at the latter's studio in Nice, France.
At age 42, Lachman put aside his oils to become a film director in England. He came to Hollywood when signed by the Fox Studios in 1933. Lachman's most impressive American directorial projects included the elaborate Spencer Tracy vehicle "Dante's Inferno" (1935) and Laurel and Hardy's "Our Relations" (1936). Both were made in collaboration with Rudolph Mate, Lachman's favorite cinematographer.
He worked extensively at 20th Century-Fox's "B" unit, turning out several of the better Charlie Chan movies as well as the atmospheric "The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe" (1942) and horror film, "Dr. Renault's Secret" (1942).
Harry Lachman returned to painting in 1943; his works both in the field of art and the realm of cinema are still exhibited worldwide. He died on March 19, 1975.
In France, Lachman was elevated to Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, a position held by other Americans, most notably Richard E. Miller. While his "Parisian Spring" is owned by the Petit Palais, Paris, four other paintings by him were acquired by the Musee du Luxembourg. He is represented in the collections of the Art Institute, Chicago and the St. Petersburg Museum of Art, among others.
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in La Salle, IL on June 29, 1886, Harry Lachman studied at the Art
Institute of Chicago. After working as a magazine illustrator, he went
to Paris in 1911 to begin an art career and gained fame quickly for his
Post-Impressionist paintings.
At his first exhibition, 40 of the 55 canvases sold, two to the Musee
du Luxemburg. He was a successful film director in France and
England before arriving in Hollywood in 1933. He was a film
director for Fox Films into the 1940s and then returned to painting.
Lachman died in Beverly Hills on March 19, 1975.
Exhibition:
Allied Arts Festival, Los Angeles County Museum 1936.
Collection:
Musee du Luxembourg (France). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Los Angeles Times, 1-19-1936 & 3-20-1975 (obituary). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
Biography from Anderson Galleries, Inc.:
| A onetime magazine illustrator, Harry Lachman, became one of the
leading European Post-Impressionist painters in the teens and
twenties. By his late twenties, Lachman had established himself
as an artist both in America and Europe. He exhibited in America
at the National Academy of Design, New York, as well as the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Early on in his career
Lachman traveled to Europe to paint and eventually lived at various
times in France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. In Europe, the
painter's works were accepted at the annual Parisian Salons.
At
age 42, Lachman put aside his oils to become a film director in
England. He came to Hollywood when signed by the Fox Studios in
1933. Lachman's most impressive American directorial projects
included the elaborate Spencer Tracy vehicle Dante's Inferno (1935) and Laurel and Hardy's Our Relations (1936).
Harry Lachman returned to painting in 1943; his works both in the field
of art and the realm of cinema are still exhibited worldwide.
In
France, Lachman was elevated to Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, a
position held by few other Americans, most notably Richard E.
Miller. While his Parisian Spring is owned by the Petit Palais,
Paris, four other paintings by him were acquired by the Musee du
Luxembourg. He is represented in the collections of the Art
Institute, Chicago and the St. Petersburg Museum of Art, among others.
The
present work features an iconic view the Seine. Using a soft
pastel palette of greens and blues accented with pink and orange,
Lachman captures a sparkling day in France. His loose,
Impressionist brushwork, gives movement to the quaking leaves, shifting
clouds, and sunlight dappling the ground. Scenes such as this
form the finest part of Lachman's oeuvre and recall his works in the
Petit Palais and Musee du Luxembourg. |
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