biografía de James Crawford THOM (1835-1898)

Lugar de nacimiento: NYC

Lugar de defunción: Atlantic Highlands, NJ

Direcciones: Ramapo, NJ (1840s-53); NYC (1853-59, 1873-74); France (1859-66); London (1866-73); NJ (1880s-on)

Profesión: Portrait, landscape, and genre painter

Estudios: NAD, 1853; in France (1859) with Th. Couture, Corot, H. Picou, and P.E. Frère in …couen

Exposiciones: NAD,1857-98; Royal Acad., London 1864-73 (when his address was Brentford, England); Boston Athenaeum; Brooklyn AA, 1865, 1873-85; PAFA Ann., 1865, 1881, 1888; AIC, 1889.

Comentarios: The son of James Thom (see entry), the sculptor. His landscapes show the influence of both Corot and the second generation Hudson River School painters, and his genre scenes often included children at play. Thom died of pneumonia.

Fuentes: G&W; Smith; Thieme-Becker; Cowdrey, NAD; NYCD 1858-59; Graves, Dictionary; Swan, BA; Rutledge, PA; PAFA, Vol. II; 300 Years of American Art, vol. 1, 266