At this time, he turned to the themes and Impressionist style that would occupy most of the remaining 30 years of his life: young women in bright sunlight. In 1910, Curran moved into a house there and established a studio. In 1903, artist Frederick Dellenbaugh invited Curran to Cragsmoor, an art center in the Hudson River Valley near Ellenville, New York. From 1887 to 1935, he exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy. The French artist Jules Bastien-Lepage was a source of inspiration for Curran with his paintings of peasants as a common subject matter. He then studied at the Academie Julian in Paris from 1889 to 1891. Five years later he received the Academy's Third Hallgarten Prize for A Breezy Day, which was considered the most "meritorious painting in oil".įollowing his training at the National Academy, he became a student at the Art Students' League. At age 23, he had his first public exhibition at the Academy and won numerous prizes from that time onward. After studying one year at the Cincinnati School of Design, he began a distinguished career when he moved to New York City in 1882 and enrolled in the National Academy of Design. American, 1861-1942 An Impressionist figure, genre, and landscape painter, Charles Curran is known as a prolific artist who created light-filled paintings, often of young women.Ĭurran was born in 1861, in Hartford, Kentucky, but in 1881 moved to Sandusky, Ohio.
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