Abbott Fuller Graves
Abbott Fuller Graves (1859–1936) was an American painter and illustrator who specialized in decorative open air garden paintings and floral still-lifes. His use of thick brushstrokes, bright colors, and natural light shows the influence of European impressionism.
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Abbott Fuller Graves
Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1896, page 968 · Public domain
- Name
- Abbott Fuller Graves
- Born
- 15 April 1859
- Birthplace
- Weymouth, Massachusetts
- Died
- 15 July 1936
- Place of death
- Kennebunkport, Maine
- Field
- Still lifes, Floral painting
- Movement
- Realism
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator
- Fields
- still life
- Education
- Académie Vitti
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Abbott Fuller Graves (1859–1936) was an American painter and illustrator who specialized in decorative open air garden paintings and floral still-lifes. His use of thick brushstrokes, bright colors, and natural light shows the influence of European impressionism.
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• Name — Abbott Fuller Graves • Born — 15 April 1859 • Birthplace — Weymouth, Massachusetts • Died — 15 July 1936 • Place of death — Kennebunkport, Maine • Field — Still lifes, Floral painting • Movement — Realism
Early life and education
Early life and education
Graves was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1859, the son of James Griswold Graves and Eliza Nicholls (Fuller). Hoping to become an architect, Graves attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology but did not graduate. Graves went to Paris and Italy in 1884 to refine his skills as a flower painter. In Europe, he roomed with Edmund C. Tarbell. After returning to Boston in 1885, Graves became a teacher at the Cowles Art School, where his friend Childe Hassam was also on the faculty. The two painters undoubtedly influenced one another. In 1887, Graves returned to Paris to study figure painting at the Académie Julian. There he was taught by Fernand Cormon, Jean-Paul Laurens and Paul Gervais
Career
Career
Graves returned to Boston in 1891, and lived in the coastal town of Kennebunkport, Maine, where he taught painting classes in oil and watercolor. He continued to visit there in later years, painting genre scenes featuring farmers, fishermen, firemen and old sea captains of Kennebunkport. Many of his portrayals of small-town life were reproduced on calendars and postcards. After 1891, the majority of Graves's works depict gardens and floral landscapes, some including female figures. Some portray exotic gardens of Spain and South America. In 1891, he opened his own art school in Boston. The school later moved to Kennebunk, Maine. From 1902 to 1905, Graves was employed as a commercial illustrator for magazines in Paris. He also studied at the Académie Vitti in Paris. After 1922, Graves spent his winters in New York City, where he belonged to such organizations as the National Academy of Design, the National Arts Club, the Salmagundi Club and Allied Artists of America.
Death
Death
Graves died in Kennebunkport on July 15, 1936. At the time of his death, he had achieved wide acclaim as a specialist in garden painting.
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Identity
Abbott Fuller Graves is recorded as painter and illustrator.
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1859
Abbott Fuller Graves born at Weymouth.
1936
Abbott Fuller Graves died at Kennebunkport.
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Weymouth.
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Legacy
Examples of Graves's work can be found in public and private collections across the country, including the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York; the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, Maine; Ball State University Museum of Art in Muncie, Indiana; the Hermitage Foundation Museum in Norfolk, Virginia; and the Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, New Jersey. • Illustration — Nearing Home • Illustration — A Summer’s Day • Illustration — Flower garden, Kennebunkport • Illustration — The Silent Partner aka The Organ Grinder (1894) • Illustration — The Village Clockmaker • Illustration — Ogunquit Doorway • Illustration — Flowers and Mirror • Illustration — Poppies • Illustration — alt=Graves, Abbott Fuller. Flowering Vines on Palm Tree Flowering Vines
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- 1.Abbott Fuller Graves, (1859-1936)
- 2.The New England Magazine. Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 968–969. 1896.
- 3.Dearinger, David Bernard. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925. Hudson Hills. 6. 2004. 978-1-55595-029-3.
- 4.Abbott Fuller Graves (1859-1936) - Spanierman Gallery LLC
- 5.University of Glasgow. Vitti, ??-??. The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler.
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