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Frederick Carl Frieseke.(Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia)(Brief Article)
In the pantheon of American impressionists, only a few have escaped being the subject of at least one large-scale exhibition. Such was the case with Frederick Carl Frieseke, who is only now the subject of a traveling show that recently opened at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, where it is on view until June 3.
The Telfair Museum began purchasing works by Frieseke in 1910 and today has four of his canvases. The current exhibition, which is entitled Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist, includes more than eighty oils and watercolors that span his long career. The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation.
The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was a turning point in Frieseke's life, for it was after he visited the fair at the age of nineteen that he decided to become an artist. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later at the Art Students League in New York City From there, like so many of his contemporaries, he traveled to Paris, where, in 1897, he enrolled at the Academie Julian and at the Academie Carmen, studying briefly at the latter with James McNeill Whistler. In 1905 he married Sarah O'Bryan, and the following year the couple summered at the artist's enclave in the village of Giverny (also the home of Claude Monet), becoming in effect a part ...
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