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|  George Albert Thompson (1868 – 1938)
Best known for Connecticut landscapes and coastal scenes including atmospheric nocturnes, George Thompson frequently painted around Bridgeport, Mystic, and New Haven. He briefly studied with John La Farge, and spent five years in Paris and one summer in Giverny*, France.
In 1898 he returned to the United States and received a B.F.A. from Yale School of Fine Arts, which he attended for six years. He taught painting at the Yale School of the Fine Arts from 1900 to 1910, the same years that he was President of the Paint & Clay Club*. Of the Club, he was founder, first President, and a major figure for over thirty years, being the most prolific exhibitor in the Club,
twice winning the Active Members Prize. He also exhibited at the National Academy of Design*, the Pennsylvania Academy* and the Corcoran Gallery* biennials.
Thompson was Director of the Norwich Art School from 1910 to 1912 and then moved to Mystic, Connecticut, where he lived for the rest of his life. He was one of the founders of the Mystic Art Association. From 1921 to 1930, he was Supervisor of Art in Groton, Connecticut, public schools.
The Yale University Art Gallery owns five portraits which Thompson painted of Yale faculty members and his work is in the Bruce Museum and other collections.
Submitted by Edward P. Bentley, Art Researcher, East Lansing, Michigan
Sources:
The New Haven Paint & Clay Club; 100th Anniversary Exhibition. New Haven, Connecticut. 2000.
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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