Van dearing perrine biography

Van Dearing Perrine (1869 – 1955) was an American Impressionist painter.
Van Dearing Perrine was an American Impressionist painter.
Born on the prairie of Kansas in 1869 and orphaned in childhood, Perrine's early life was derived of being a vagabond, cowboy and plasterer riding the rails.

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Van Dearing Perrine

American painter

Van Dearing Perrine (1869 – 1955) was an American Impressionist painter.^[1] Perrine moved to New York around 1893, and studied at the National Academy of Design (1894–1897). He founded The Country Sketch Club, which held a number of exhibitions at the Academy in the late 1890s, and the Art Institute of Chicago in 1901.^[2] Walter Farndon, Charles Hawthorne, Jonas Lie, and Maurice Stern also exhibited in these shows. Perrine's first solo exhibition was at the Glaenzer Galleries in New York in 1903. He exhibited shortly thereafter at the Forest Park Art Building in the American section of the World's Fair in 1904.^[3] He also exhibited at the Durand-Ruel Gallery, the New Gallery, the Armory Show of 1913, and The Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City.

Perrine was a guest of Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House in June 1934, and Franklin D. Roosevelt purchased one of Van Perrine’s paintings of the Palisades to have it hung in the White House shortly thereafter. He has also been collected by the Smithsonian

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Van Dearing Perrine papers, 1892-1986

Collection Information

Size: 3 Linear feet, (partially microfilmed on 1 reel); 3.7 Linear feet, Addition; 1 Item, Addition: 1 rd

Summary: Biographical information, correspondence, writings, photographs, printed material, including clippings, exhibition and auction catalogs, monographs, and art works by Perrine and his students. A small amount of papers of Perrine's wife Theodora Snow and daughter, Mary Perrine, are also included.

REEL D23: Photos of works of art and one photo of Perrine; and catalogs, announcements, and articles about Perrine.

UNMICROFILMED: Ten biographical accounts, an award from the Carnegie Institute for "The Robbers," 1903; letters; exhibition catalogs; a scrapbook with clippings, sketches, and a photograph, 1894-1906; clippings; 2 scrapbooks of clippings, 1897-1915; bulletins and reports from art organizations concerning the League for the Preservation of the Palisades, 1893-1973; exhibition and auction catalogs; a book A FULL LIFE--THE STORY OF VAN DEARING PERRINE by Lolita L. W. Flockhart, 1939; photographs of

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Biography:

“He was born in 1869 in Garnett, Kansas, son of a homesteader and trader whose early death left the family destitute. His youth was one of hardship. After the family broke up he farmed, worked as a cowboy, lived for several years as a hobo, learn plastering and lathing. This supported him after he came to New York, probably in the early 1890s, to study art at Cooper Institute, then at the school of the National Academy of Design (3).”

“[He was a] Painter, specialized in landscapes. Learned and practiced the trade of plasterer for several years. Moved to New York in the early 1890s to study art at the Cooper Institute and the National Academy of Design (1).”

“Among Perrine's close student friends were Maurice Sterne, Alfred H. Maurer and Maurice Prendergast. In 1899 he shared a studio with Sterne at 835 Broadway, and this became headquarters for the Country Sketch Club, of which Perrine was a founder. The members painted together in New Jersey (3).”

“In 1902 he moved to New Jersey where he lived in a series of homes near th