Robert Lewis Reid

Robert Lewis Reid studied at Académie Julian. Training under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre is recorded. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Netherlands. Work by Robert Lewis Reid is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Brauer Museum of Art and Midwest Museum of American Art. Distinctions recorded are Hallgarten Prize.

• Name — Robert Reid • Birth Name — Robert Lewis Reid • Born — 29 July 1862 • Birthplace — Stockbridge, Massachusetts • Died — 2 December 1929 • Place of death — Clifton Springs, New York • Resting Place — Stockbridge Cemetery Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Robert Reid was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and schooled at the Philips Academy from 1880 to 1884. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston under Otto Grundmann, where he was later an instructor. In 1884 he moved to New York City, studying at the Art Students League, and in 1885 he went to Paris to study at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. His early pictures were figures of French peasants, painted at Étaples. Upon returning to New York in 1889, he worked as a portraitist and later became an instructor at the Art Students League and Cooper Union.

Reid's murals are in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the Appellate Court House in New York City. The Rotunda of the Massachusetts State House in Boston contains his three large mural panels—James Otis Delivering his Speech against the Writs of Assistance, Paul Revere's Ride, and The Boston Tea Party. He executed a mural panel for the American Pavilion at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. His murals for the Palace of Fine Arts building at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco, 1915) were an extraordinary tribute to the Arts. Eight huge panels graced the ceiling of the rotunda: The Four Golds of California (Golden Metal, Wheat, Citrus Fruits, and Poppies); plus Ideals in Art, Inspirations of All Arts, the Birth of European Art and Birth of Oriental Art. These paintings no longer exist in San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, which was re-built in the 1960s, and their current whereabouts are unknown. • Illustration — The Five Senses (ceiling mural), Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress • Illustration — Wisdom (1896), Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress • Illustration — Knowledge (1896), Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress • Illustration — Wisdom (1896), Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress • Illustration — Ideals in Art (domed ceiling panel) (1914), Rotunda, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco

In 1906 Reid completed a series of ten stained glass windows depicting the Life of Christ for the Unitarian Memorial Church in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. For the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City, he created The Martyrdom of St. Paul Window, located at the southwestern end of the nave.

"Chicagoans knew Reid as the artist who painted a mammoth Navy recruiting poster that embellished the billboard at the northern terminus of Michigan Avenue for several months" (before 1918).

Reid also taught Nan Sheets. Reid died in Clifton Springs, New York.

* • See World's Columbian Exposition. * • Re: Panama–Pacific International Exposition. *

* • Katz, Wendy, ed. (2018). The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press..