biografía de Morston Constantine REAM (1840-1898)

Lugar de nacimiento: Lancaster, OH

Lugar de defunción: NYC

Direcciones: NYC (1872-c.1883); Chicago, IL (c.1888-97)

Profesión: Still life painter

Exposiciones: Moore's Art Rooms, NY; Cleveland, OH; Brooklyn AA, 1873-83, 1892; PAFA Ann., 1876, 1881; Toledo Loan Exh., 1885; San Fran.; NAD, 1872-83; AIC, 1888-97

Comentarios: A specialist in fruit and dessert still lifes and brother of Carducius Plantagenet Ream (see entry). Morston learned daguerreotyping in 1860 and was a photographer's apprentice until he found the process detrimental to his health and turned to painting, c.1868. He also produced some landscapes and genre paintings.

Fuentes: G&W; Gerdts, Painters of the Humble Truth, 113; Naylor, NAD; Falk, AIC; For Beauty and for Truth, 84 (w/repro.); Falk, Exh. Record Series.