biography of George Henry CLEMENTS (1854-1935)

Birth place: San Louis Obispo, CA

Death place: Oberlin, LA.

Addresses: Boston, 1887; Flushing, NY, 1894-1904; NYC, 1914, 1933

Profession: Painter, etcher

Studied: Union Art League, NYC (c. 1880); after living in New Orleans, he studied in Paris for 15 years, including a year (1882) at Académie Julian. He may also have studied with Duveneck.

Exhibited: PAFA, 1887-98; Boston AC, 1887, 1898, 1901, 1905, 1907; J. Eastman Chase, 1887; Paris, Salon, 1890-91; Artist's Assoc of New Orleans, 1899, 1904, 1914; AIC, 1904-05; Corcoran Gal, 1921.

Member: NYWCC; Boston SWCP; Boston WCC; SC, 1904.

Work: Cincinnati Art Mus.

Comments: Clements grew up on the family homestead in Louisiana and appears to have traveled to Europe on several occasions. In 1883-84, he was in France, Switzerland, and Italy and back in Paris, 1890-91. He was part of a group of American artists who lived in a farmhouse outside Paris. The group included Duveneck, Weir, Twachtman and Rolshoven. He also traveled extensively in the U.S., painting in California in 1891, Louisiana on many trips between 1887-1935, and maintained a summer home on Cape Cod in the 1920s. Position: T., Boston (probably BMFA Sch.).

Sources: WW33; Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 80-81; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 330; add'l info. courtesy David Hall, Boston, MA; Falk, Exhibition Record Series.

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