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Frederick Arthur Bridgman Women in Biskra Weaving a Burnoose oil painting


Women in Biskra Weaving a Burnoose
Painting ID::  61971 		Artist: Frederick Arthur Bridgman
Painting: Women in Biskra Weaving a Burnoose
Introduction: 1880. oil on canvas laid on masonite. 41 x 52 in. (104.1 x 132 cm). Courtesy Vance Jordan Fine Art Inc., NY.
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Frederick Arthur Bridgman The Day of the Prophet at Oued el Kebir oil painting


The Day of the Prophet at Oued el Kebir
Painting ID::  61974 		Artist: Frederick Arthur Bridgman
Painting: The Day of the Prophet at Oued el Kebir
Introduction: Oil on canvas. 59,4 x 78.5 in. (150 x 200 cm). © Christie's Images, Ltd.
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Frederick Arthur Bridgman Portrait of a Kabylie Woman, Algeria oil painting


Portrait of a Kabylie Woman, Algeria
Painting ID::  61976 		Artist: Frederick Arthur Bridgman
Painting: Portrait of a Kabylie Woman, Algeria
Introduction: 1875. Oil on canvas. 28.5 x 23 in. (72.4 x 58.4 cm). Courtesy Vance Jordan Fine Arts Inc., NY.
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Frederick Arthur Bridgman The Rendez vous. oil painting


The Rendez vous.
Painting ID::  61979 		Artist: Frederick Arthur Bridgman
Painting: The Rendez vous.
Introduction: Oil on canvas. 14.75 x 18.75 in. (37.4 x 47.6 cm). Private collection.
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Frederick Arthur Bridgman The Siesta oil painting


The Siesta
Painting ID::  61996 		Artist: Frederick Arthur Bridgman
Painting: The Siesta
Introduction: Oil on canvas. 11.25 x 17 in. (28.5 x 43 cm). Courtesy Spanierman Gallery, NY.
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
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     American Painter, 1847-1928 was an American artist, born in Tuskegee, Alabama. An American Southerner, born in Tuskeegee, Alabama, the son of a physician, Bridgman would become one of the United States' most well-known and well-regarded painters and become known as one of the world's most talented "Orientalist" painters. He began as a draughtsman in New York City, for the American Bank Note Company in 1864-1865, and studied art in the same years at the Brooklyn Art Association and at the National Academy of Design; but he went to Paris in 1866 and became a pupil of Jean-Leon Gerôme. Paris then became his headquarters. A trip to Egypt in 1873-1874 resulted in pictures of the East that attracted immediate attention, and his large and important composition, The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile, in the Paris Salon (1877), bought by James Gordon Bennett, brought him the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Other paintings by him were An American Circus in Normandy, Procession of the Bull Apis (now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), and a Rumanian Lady (in the Temple collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). In 1867, Bridgman entered the studio of the noted academic painter Jean-Leon Gerôme (1824-1904), where he was deeply influenced by Gerôme's precise draftsmanship, smooth finishes, and concern for Middle-Eastern themes. (Bridgman would even become known as "the American Gerôme.") No mere imitator, however, Bridgman would later adopt a more naturalistic aesthetic, emphasizing bright colors and painterly brushwork. Bridgman made his first trip to North Africa between 1872 and 1874, dividing his time between Algeria and Egypt. There he executed approximately three hundred sketches, which became the source material for several later oil paintings. Additional visits to the region throughout the 1870s and 1880s allowed him to amass a collection of costumes, architectural pieces, and objets d'art, which often appear in his paintings. (Amusingly, John Singer Sargent noted that Bridgman's overstuffed studio, along with the Eiffel Tower, were Paris's must-see attractions.) Though Bridgman maintained a lifelong connection to France, his popularity in America never waned. Indeed, in 1890, the artist had a one-man show of over 400 pictures in New York's 5th Avenue galleries. When the show moved to Chicago's Art Institute, it contained only 300 works - testimony to the high number of sales Bridgman had made. . Related Artists to Frederick Arthur Bridgman : | Henry Peacham | John Jackson | Edward Henry Fahey,RI | Frederick Smallfield | Henderson Frank |

 

 

 
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