biografía de Robert Hale Ives GAMMELL (1893-1981)

Lugar de nacimiento: Providence, RI

Lugar de defunción: Williamstown, MA

Direcciones: Boston; Provincetown, MA (1950s-63); Williamstown, MA (1963-on)

Profesión: Painter, writer, teacher

Estudios: in 1910, received brief instruction and encouragement from William C. Loring and Wm. Sergeant Kendall; Boston Mus. School with William Paxton, E. Tarbell, F. W. Benson, and Philip Hale, 1913; with Ch. W. Hawthorne (summers) in Provincetown; Académie Julian and Académie Baschet, Paris, 1913-14

Exposiciones: PAFA, 1916, 1922, 1942-43; Corcoran Gal., 1935-41; Newport AA, 1936 (prize); All. Artists Am., 1941 (prize); Vose Gal., Boston, 1987.

Asociaciones: Providence AC; NSMP; NY Soc. Painters; All. Artists Am.; Boston Gld. Artists; Newport AA; Tavern Club; St. Botolph Club; AFA; Copley Soc.

Obra: murals, TMA; Women's Club, Fall River, MA; Newark Pub. Lib.; Oxon Hill Manor, Oxon Hill; Industrial Nat. Bank, Providence, RI; paintings, Maryhill (WA) MFA

Comentarios: A fervent and influential advocate of "Classic Realism," he is best remembered as the intellectual force who carried on the tradition of the Boston School of realist painters. He was the author of Twilight of Painting (1946) which sets forth his position and provides a history of the movement and which served as the foundation for his posthumous publication, The Boston Painters, 1900-30. He was also author of Dennis Miller Bunker; The Shop Talk of Edgar Degas; and "A Pictorial Sequence based on èThe Hound of Heaven," by Francis Thompson." He is remembered for his public murals, portraits, and biblical subjects, and for his revival of traditional and personal academic art instruction.

Fuentes: WW59; WW47; PHF files; Falk, Exh. Record Series.