biography of Charles Henry EBERT (1873-1959)

Birth place: Milwaukee, Wis.

Death place: Old Lyme, CT

Addresses: Greenwich, CT, c.1900-19; NYC; Old Lyme, CT; Monhegan Island, ME, 1919-59

Profession: Landscape painter

Studied: Cincinnati Art Acad., 1892-93; ASL, 1893-94; Académie Julian, Paris, 1894-96 with B. Constant and J.P. Laurens; with Twachtman, in Cos Cob, CT, c.1900.

Exhibited: PAFA, 1908-21; Buenos Aires Expo, 1910 (bronze medal); Pan.-Pacific Expo, San Francisco, 1915 (silver medal); Wisconsin P&S, Milwaukee, 1927 (purchase prize); NAD, 1907-33 (almost annually); Lyme AA, 1914-49 (prize, 1933); Corcoran Gal., 1916, 1926; CI, 1909-10, 1914; Greenwich SA, 1912, 1928, 1930, 1931; SC, 1914, 1918, 1922; AIC, 1910, 1914, 1920, 1923, 1930; Albright-Knox, 1927; CAFA, 1940-46; AFA, 1964-65; Grand Central AG, 1979; Lyman Allyn Mus., New London, CT, 1966, 1979 (retrospective); Florence Griswold Mus., Old Lyme, CT, 1996 (retrospective, with wife Mary R. Ebert)

Member: Greenwich SA, 1912 (founder); SC; AWCS; CAFA; Lyme AA; Wisconsin PS; Artists Fellowship; Allied AA; Wisconsin P&S; Sarasota AA

Work: Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME; Monhegan Mus., ME; Albright-Knox AG, Buffalo; Lyman Allyn Mus., New London, CT; Florence Griswold Mus., Old Lyme, CT; Colby College Mus.; Waterville, ME

Comments: In the late 1880s he was in Kansas City and a friend of Ernest Lawson. After studies in NYC and Paris, he returned to NYC in 1896, opened a studio, and was an illustrator for Life. In 1903, he married Mary Roberts (a watercolor painter) and they lived in Greenwich, CT until 1919 when they moved to Old Lyme. He is best known for his paintings of Monhegan Island (1909-on) and Old Lyme (1919-on). He also painted in Giverny, Venice, the Tyrolian Alps, Gloucester, Bermuda, Bahamas, and Florida (winters, 1920s-on).

Sources: WW53; WW47; Connecticut and American Impressionism 158 (w/repro.); Art in Conn.: The Impressionist Years; Falk, Exh. Record Series.