biografía de Frank Vincent DUMOND (1865-1951)

Lugar de nacimiento: Rochester, NY

Lugar de defunción: New York, NY

Direcciones: NYC, 1892-1909; Lyme, CT, 1902-41

Profesión: Landscape painter, teacher, illustrator

Estudios: ASL with Wm. Sartain and J.C. Beckwith, 1884; Académie Julian, Paris, with Boulanger, Lefebvre, Constant, Doucet, 1888-89

Exposiciones: Paris Salon, 1889-92 (gold medal, 1890), 1896-98; PAFA, 1891-1909, 1921; Mechanics Charitable Expo, Boston, 1892 (gold medal); NAD, 1892; Worlds Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893; Cotton States Expo, Atlanta, 1892 (silver medal); Pan-Am. Expo, 1901 (two silver medals); St. Louis Expo, 1904 (silver medal); Corcoran Gal, 1907-08, 1912, 1919, 1926; Pan-Pacific Expo, San Francisco, 1915 (prize); Providence AC, 1939 (solo); ASL, 1949 (solo); AIC; NAD memorial exhib., 1952; Florence Griswold Mus., Old Lyme, CT, 1990 (retrospective)

Asociaciones: ANA, 1900; NA, 1906; Lyme AA; SI; SC; SAA; Lotos Club; Century Assn.; Rochester AC; Hudson Valley AA; Yonkers AA; NIAL: NSMP; NAC (honorary dinner, 1950); ASL; Players Club; Soc. Mural Painters; Chief, FA Dept., Lewis and Clark Expo, Portland, 1905; jury, Pan-Pacific Expo, San Francisco, 1915

Obra: AAAL, NYC; ASL; NAD; NAC; SI; Florence Griswold Mus., Old Lyme, CT; Lyman Allyn Mus., New London, CT; New Britain Mus. Am. Art; Public Library, San Francisco; Liberty Tower & Hotel des Artistes, NYC; Lotos Club; NAC; Portland (OR) AM; Denver AM; Richmond (IN) AA; Lake Forest, IL.

Comentarios: An important tonalist landscape painter and for fifty-nine years (1892-1951) one of the most influential teachers at the ASL. Among DuMond's students were John F. Carlson, Gifford Beal, Isabel Bishop, Charles Hawthorne, John Marin, Ogden Pleissner, and many others. In his early years he was an illustrator for NY Daily Graphic, Harper's Weekly, and Century. He also taught at the Pratt Institute. He directed the Lyme Sch. Art (summers) 1902-05; and in 1906, he and his wife bought property in Lyme, CT. He also held outdoor summer classes (and went fly fishing) throughout New England (in Essex, CT; Kent, CT; Manchester, VT; Pownal, VT) and in the Margaree River Valley, Cape Breton Island (1927-36). Brother of Frederick M. Dumond (see entry) who accompanied him to study art in Paris. Willard Metcalf was one of his closest friends.

Fuentes: WW47; exhib. cat., Florence Griswold Mus., Old Lyme, CT, 1990; Connecticut and American Impressionism 157-58 (w/repro.); Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 339; Art in Conn.: The Impressionist Years; Falk, Exh. Record Series.