biografía de Stephen Seymour THOMAS (1868-1956)

Lugar de nacimiento: San Augustine, TX

Lugar de defunción: La Crescenta, CA

Direcciones: La Crescenta, CA (lived in Paris, 1888-1914; NYC, 1914-19; then settled in CA)

Profesión: Painter

Estudios: ASL with W.M. Chase and C. Beckwith, 1885-88; Académie Julian, Paris with Lefebvre, Constant, and Doucet, 1888-90; …cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

Exposiciones: World's Indust. and Cotton Cent. Expo., 1884-85; Columbian Expo., Chicago, 1893; PAFA Ann., 1893-1902 (5 times); Tulane Univ., 1894; Paris Salon, 1891-1895 (hon. men.), 1896-1898, 1901 (gold), 1904 (prize), 1905-1910; Paris Expo, 1900 (medal); Munich, 1901 (gold); Pan-Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1900 (medal); Hors Concours, 1904 (gold medal); Chevalier Legion of Honor, 1905; PPE, 1915; LACMA, 1935 (solo); AIC.

Asociaciones: Los Angeles AA; Paris S. Am. P.; Pasadena AS.

Obra: MMA; Albright Gal.; Buffalo Mus. Art; Chamber of Commerce, New York Life Bldg., Courtroom, Hall of Records, all in NYC; John Herron AI; Houston MFA; Winona (MN) Mus.; Los Angeles Mus. History, Science & Art; Athenaeum, Pasadena; State House, Trenton, NJ; MIT; port. Woodrow Wilson, White House; Nat. Liberal Club, London; Univ. Calif.; Trinity College; Syracuse Univ; Nat. Acad. Sciences, Wash., DC; Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland; Am. College Surgeons, Chicago; Morrison Library, Univ. Calif.; Huntington Mem. Hospital, Pasadena; Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles

Comentarios: Pioneer Texas genre and landscape painter and international portrait painter. He was successful as an artist at an early age and painted portraits of many notables in the U.S. as well as Europe. He met his wife Helen M. Haskell Seymour (see entry) in Paris.

Fuentes: WW40; Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 374; Hughes, Artists in California, 556; P&H Samuels, 483-84; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 396; Falk, Exh. Record Series.