Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (1858-1923): The Boston technician.
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Title
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Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (1858-1923): The Boston technician.
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Identifier
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AAI9618047
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identifier
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9618047
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Creator
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Buckley, Laurene.
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Contributor
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Adviser: William H. Gerdts
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Date
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1996
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Art History | Biography
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Abstract
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Joseph Rodefer DeCamp was one of Boston's finest painters. Throughout his career he experimented with, and mastered, many techniques, constantly thirsting for new ways to express his artistic skills. DeCamp's first leanings were towards landscape painting, yet it is a tragic irony that so few of his landscapes survive, as a significant proportion of his early work, some several hundred paintings, was destroyed by fire when he was 46. This tragedy was compounded in later years by ill health, which reduced his output.;"Joseph Rodefer DeCamp: The Boston Technician" examines the artist's life in terms of seven well-defined periods. The dissertation traces how, as a boy in Cincinnati, DeCamp showed astonishing early dedication to his talent. It describes how he trained in Europe for five years, studying first at the Royal Academy in Munich and then training under Frank Duveneck while living in Venice and Florence. His blossoming career on his return to America is studied in three stages: Cincinnati and teaching in Cleveland; his early years in Boston; and his emergence as a national figure when, in the 1890s, he turned his consummate skills to Impressionism. Experimenting with bright colors, he earned himself an accolade from the New York Times as a painter "in the Monet advance." During DeCamp's mature years, 1900-1917, the artist became well known for his portraiture, both of prominent men and of female models posed in domestic interiors.;Joseph Rodefer DeCamp was born in 1858 in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he studied at the McMicken School of Design. He left America in 1878 to study in Munich and then lived in Florence and Italy, before returning to the U.S.A. in 1883. The following year he settled in Boston. He was a founding member of the Ten American Painters in 1897 and visited North Africa, Spain, and England in 1909. DeCamp died in 1923 in Boca Grande, Florida.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
