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Stuart, James E.
| Last Name: | Stuart |
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| First Name: | James E. |
| Dates: |
*1852 (Date of Birth)
*1941 (Date of Death)
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| Biography/History: | James Stuart was born near Bangor, Maine on March 24, 1852. He showed an aptitude for drawing at an early age. When he was eight years old, he came to California with his parents. Stuart painted his first work in 1860. His father forbade him to pass the time in such a wasteful pursuit as art and Stuart was forced to do all his art in secrecy. In 1866 he found a job painting farm wagons for $3.00 a day. Half of the money he made was used to pay for his first art lessons in Sacramento with artist David Holmes Woods. In 1877, he began a five year study at the San Francisco School of Design. He also studied privately with portrait painter Benoni Irwin. Stuart had his first studio in Portland, Oregon in 1881. His landscapes of the Pacific Northwest are what ultimately brought him fame and fortune. In 1886, he returned to California and that fall he established a studio in New York City. His Western scenes found favor with Eastern and European collectors in New York. In 1892, he made Chicago his headquarters and was based there for 20 years. During his life he traveled extensively throughout Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska. By the turn of the century, he was a nationally famous painter and was highly successful in merchandising his own work |
| Related Objects: |
3607.1 (Painting, Trees and Meadow on Mt. Desert Island, August 4, 1906)
3607.2 (Painting, Near Santa Cruz, Calif. 1935, March 29, 1935)
3607.3 (Painting, Passing Showers, near Madron, Calif. 1917, July 29, 1917)
83.12.21 (Painting, Showers, Lower Sacramento Valley, 1/19/1903)
84.6.6.1/3 (Painting, Looking Up the Columbia, Shell Rock, 1883)
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