 Humphrey Moore is primarily known as Harry Humphrey Moore
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Portrait of a Young Shepherdess with her Lamb
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born deaf in New York City, Harry Moore was a student of Thomas Eakins when attending a school for the deaf in Philadelphia. Eakins recommended he study at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he became a student of Jean Leon Gerome.
Completing his studies in 1869, Moore traveled in Spain with Eakins, and he was so impressed by the landscape that he stayed several years. In 1872, he married and moved to Morocco and also went to Japan, having been encouraged by the artist Robert Blum.
His reputation was established by his interest in Oriental subject matter--- he along with William Heine, Edward Kern, and Winckworth Gay,was one of the first American artists to visit Japan. There he created about sixty paintings of Oriental subject matter including temples, gardens, and Geisha girls.
Throughout his life, he was a world traveler, living a lot in Paris, but he spent much time in San Francisco between 1864 and 1907. |
This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in New York in 1844. Deaf at three, Moore attended schools for the deaf in Hartford and Philadelphia. He studied art in Paris and in San Francisco at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute. He was in and out of San Francisco often between 1864-1907. A world traveler, he specialized in Spanish, Japanese, and Moorish subjects. Moore worked in Europe most of the latter part of his life and died in Paris on Jan. 2, 1926. Member: Rochester AA. Exh: Mechanics' Inst. (SF), 1871, 1878, 1881; Snow & Mays Gallery (SF), 1877 (solo); Bohemian Club, 1880; Mark Hopkins Inst., 1900-03. In: CHS; Bohemian Club; Carnegie Inst. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
American Art Annual 1909-25; California State Library (Sacramento); California Historical Society; Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs (Bénézit, E); Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers (Fielding, Mantle); Artists of the American West (Doris Dawdy); Who's Who in America 1918; Art News, 1-9-1926 (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. |
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