biografía de George Matthew BRUESTLE (1872-1939)

Lugar de nacimiento: NYC

Lugar de defunción: New Haven, CT

Direcciones: NYC/Hamburg Cove, Lyme, CT

Profesión: Landscape painter, teacher

Estudios: ASL with Mowbray, 1886; Ch. M. Dewey; Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi, Paris, with G. Courtois and Aman-Jean, 1890, 1893-96

Exposiciones: PAFA, 1891, 1896-97, 1899, 1902-06, 1911, 1919, 1921; Paris Salon, 1896; AIC; CI; Corcoran Gal, 1907; Lyme AA; NAD, 1890-91; AFA traveling exhib., 1931; Cooley Gal., Old Lyme, CT, 1994 (retrospective)

Asociaciones: ANA, 1927; Lyme AA (secretary, 1923); SC; Allied AA; Lotos Club; NAC; CAFA; New Haven PCC

Obra: Gibbes Mem. Mus., Charlestown, SC; Reading Mus.; Cleveland Mus. Art; Dayton Mus.

Comentarios: After studying in Paris, he became an illustrator for Harper"s, 1897-1901. He is best known for his small Impressionist landscapes of the Lyme area, where he settled in 1905.

Fuentes: WW33; exhib. cat., Cooley Gal. (Old Lyme, CT, 1994); Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 326; Art in Conn.: The Impressionist Years (cites birthdate of 1872 and deathdate of 1934)