Biography from AskART:
| Born in Boston, William Schumacher was an artist who taught painting
and espoused modernist art for many years at the Byrdcliffe Colony
summer school in Woodstock. His style was much in contrast to the
conservative ways of John Carlson and Birge Harrison, also major
figures in that colony.
Early in his career, Schumacher studied
in Paris at the Julian Academy, and was much influenced by the
avant-garde methods of bold patterning and bright colors of the Fauves
whose leaders were Henri Matisse, and Paul Gaughin.
William
Schumacher exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show in New York where abstract
art from Europe was introduced to the United States. He also
participated in exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy and the Society
of Independent Artists.
Sources include:
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
http://www.museum.cornell.edu/byrdcliffe/
Milton Brown, The Story of the Armory Show |
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William Schumacher is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
New York Armory Show of 1913
Fauves/Fauvism
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