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Born in San Gabriel, California, Guy Rose became one of California's premier impressionist painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was also a leading figure in the California regionalist movement.
He was the son of a large Southern California landowning family, and the town of Rosemead bears the family name. He graduated from Los Angeles High School and moved to San Francisco where he did his art training at the School of Design with Virgil Williams and Emil Carlsen.
In 1888, he went to Paris and studied with Benjamin Constant, Jules Lefebvre, and at the Academie Julian with Lucien Doucet. In 1898, he received honorable mention at the Paris Salon, the first artist from California to get such recognition. Some of the work he did in his Paris studio had Oriental motifs, reflecting the fascination of the time with that subject matter.
In the mid 1890s, he went to New York and taught at the Pratt Institute and did illustrations for "Harper's," "Scribners," and "Century," and in 1899, returned to France, and he and his wife bought a cottage at Giverny, where he became greatly influenced by Monet and the other Impressionists during the time he lived there from 1904 to 1912. Unlike many of the artists in residence there, he actually became a friend of Monet, who was a mentor. He also had problems with lead poisoning from paint and had periods of time when he was unable to paint.
In 1914, having lived eight years at Giverny, he moved permanently to California and taught and served as Director of the Stickney School of Art in Pasadena. Six years later, he had more lead poisoning and suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed. He died on November 17, 1925.
He was a member of the California Art Club and Painters and Sculptors of Los Angeles. His work is in numerous collections including the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana; the Los Angeles County Museum; and the Fleischer Museum in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Guy Rose was born in San Gabriel, California on March 3,1867. He was the son of a former senator who was a large Southern California landowner and rancher for whom the town of Rosemead was named. Guy graduated from Los Angeles High School; next he studied at the California School of Design in San Francisco, where he was particularly influenced by Emil Carlsen. At the age of twenty-one he sailed to Paris to study at the Academie Julian. His big claim to fame was his friendship with Claude Monet during a prolonged sojourn in the village of Giverny, near Paris. He traveled between France and Los Angeles many times, suffered a battle with lead poisoning ( an occupational hazard), and taught for a while in New York City at the Pratt Institute; finally he bought a house in Giverny in 1904.
The lead poisoning he suffered from affected his vision and crippled his hands, leaving him unable to paint for various periods of time. In 1914, Rose returned to California and brought with him the light and colors of French Impressionism. He roamed up and down the state of California painting the landscapes in a style somewhat related. He taught at the Stickney School of Art and served as director there. In 1920 he again suffered from lead poisoning and in 1921 he suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed. He died on November 17, 1925.
Written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.
Sources include:
French Connection by Cathy Curtis in LA Times, November 30, 1995.
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