This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following biography is based on material provided by Ada Holmes Doty, grand daughter of the artist.
Born in Philadelphia, Charles Vezin became a painter associated with scenes of Brooklyn Harbor and the downtown skyline. He did not gain attention as a painter until he was in his forties when he began studying in New York with Frank DuMond at the Art Students League.
As a young man, he was educated in the Philadelphia area at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, the Dr. Faires School and also studied in Germany. Returning to the United States, he became a traveling salesman, and in 1895 founded the drygoods firm of Hinchman, Veste & Co.
By age sixty one, he gave up a lucrative drygoods business to devote himself to art, a decision about which he commented: "I shook off the shackles of business to become a free man with nothing to consider but the joy of work."
From 1911 to 1915, he served as president of the Salmagundi Club in New York, and he, who had his first art lesson at age 41, saw his paintings exhibited widely including at the National Academy of Design, the Carnegie Institute, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
He wrote numerous brochures on art subjects and was especially vocal in his disapproval of the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibiting impressionist-style paintings.
For many years, he and his wife, Adah DeLamater, lived in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and made his home in Coral Gables, Florida. |
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Charles Vezin is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Old Lyme Colony Painters
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