Joseph DeCamp

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Joseph DeCamp
Joseph Rodefer DeCamp
Born November 5, 1858(1858-11-05)
Cincinnati, Ohio
Died February 11, 1923 (aged 64)
Nationality American
Field Painting
Influenced by Frank Duveneck


Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (November 5, 1858 - February 11, 1923) was an American painter.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he studied with Frank Duveneck in that city. In the second half of the 1870s he went with Duveneck and fellow students to the Royal Academy of Munich, then spent time in Florence, Italy, returning to Boston in 1883.

He became known as a member of the Boston school led by Edmund Charles Tarbell and Emil Otto Grundmann, focusing on figure painting, and in the 1890s adopting the style of Tonalism. He was a founder of the Ten American Painters, a group of American Impressionists, in 1897.

A 1904 fire in his Boston studio destroyed several hundred of his early paintings, including nearly all of his landscapes.

He died in Boca Grande, Florida.

[edit] References

  • Laurene Buckley, Joseph DeCamp: The Boston Technician (Prestel Publishing, 1995) ISBN 3-7913-1604-4

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