This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Benjamin Tupper Newman was born November 28, 1858 at Bath, Maine and he died at the Maine General Hospital, Portland, Maine, on July 15, 1940. After graduating from Bath High School with honors, Newman received a scholarship to the Boston Museum School of Art (1878). He traveled to England and Western Europe. Newman spent four years studying under Otto Grunderman. He received a scholarship to the National Academy of Art in New York City from 1881-1884. Newman later enrolled in Le E'Cole de Beaux (1885) in Paris for three years where he received instruction from Gustave Boulanger and Jules LaFebvre. He also studied at the E'Cole of Nationale des Arts (1887) and the Julian School of Art (1890).
Newman received an honorable mention in 1888 for his painting "Lunch Time in Britain" from the Losrve Salon, Paris. This painting hung at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Newman's painting "The Soap Maker" was exhibited at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1903. This painting now hangs in the Conway (New Hampshire) Public Library.
Newman became a teacher of art and manual training at Fryeburg Academy, Fryeburg, Maine and worked there most of his adult life. Newman enjoyed traveling and painting at these locations: in 1922 he was in Vero, Florida; in the summer of 1925 he drove to the West Coast going to Yellowstone, Colorado, California and the Canadian Rockies; later in 1925 he went to France; in 1926 he was in northern Africa; in 1928 - 1929 he was in Chicago; and in 1930 Newman went back to France. He went to France a total of five times to study and paint.
Newman made few trips after the Depression, but was kept busy with teaching and commissions to paint locally and he had many art exhibitions in Boston (including the Boston Art Club) and Portland, Maine (Portland Art Club). His paintings include landscapes of Yellowstone National Park, around Chicago and Lake Michigan, California, Maine, France and Africa. He is represented in numerous public and private collections.
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Charles Vogel
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Bath, ME on Nov. 28, 1858. Newman studied at the Boston Museum School, NAD, and in Paris at Académie Julian under Lefebvre and Boulanger. A peripetetic artist, he made five trips to Europe, and traveled widely in the U.S. While in California, he was active in Stockton in 1918 and painted a scene of the city, and was again in California in 1925. He died in Portland, ME on July 15, 1940. As well as a painter, he was also a poet, archaeologist, boat builder, and maker of arrows. Member: Boston Art Club; Portland (ME) Art Club. Exh: Paris Salon, 1888; World’s Columbian Expo (Chicago), 1893; St Louis World’s Fair, 1903. In: Fryeburg (ME) Academy; Conway (NH) Public Library. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
American Art Annual 1910; NY Times, 7-9-1940 (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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