Arthur Crisp
Arthur Crisp | |
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| Born | Arthur Watkins Crisp April 26, 1881 |
| Died | June 28, 1974(aged 93) |
| Education | Hamilton Art School (1898-1900) with John Sloan Gordon;Art Students League,New York (1900-1902) with Frank Vincent Dumond |
| Spouse | Mary Ellen Crisp |
| Awards | bronze medal at the Pan-Pacific Exhibition in San Francisco (1915); the Halgarten Prize at theNational Academy of Designexhibition in New York (1916) |
| Elected | elected full member, National Academy of Design (1937) |
Arthur Watkins Crisp(26 April 1881,Hamilton, Ontario– 28 June 1974,Biddeford Pool, Maine) was aCanadianpainter, muralist, and designer.[1][2]
Career
[edit]By 1898, Crisp was attending the Hamilton Art School, studying with the artist and teacher John Sloan Gordon. He remained there for three years.[3]During this time, he also worked as an engraver at theHamilton Herald.He left Hamilton for New York City in the summer of 1900 to attend theArt Students Leagueand worked there three years, valuing especiallyFrank DuMondas a teacher.[3]He worked afterwards as a commercial artist, and as a painter and a muralist. From 1913 to 1917, he was appointed a drawing instructor atCooper Union.He then went on to teach at theBeaux-Arts Institute of Designof New York, as well as the Art Students League. He won a bronze medal at the Pan-Pacific Exhibition in San Francisco in 1915, and the Halgarten Prize at the National Academy of Design exhibition in New York in 1916.[3]
He was commissioned to paint British and Canadian recruiting on the Boston Common in 1918 for the Canadian War Memorials and painted decorations for the Reading Room of the newHouse of Commons in Ottawa(1920-1923), for theImperial Bank of Commerce,King St, Toronto (1930),[4]for the Capitol Building, Columbus, Ohio (1951) and for the State Educational Building, Albany, NY (1959).[2]His paintings are in theArt Gallery of Hamilton,[2]theMorgan Library,NY,[5]theNational Gallery of Canada,Ottawa,[6]theNational Portrait Gallery,USA,[7] and theWhitney Museum of American Art,NY.[8]
Crisp was a member of the New York Architectural League (1911), and theNational Society of Mural Painters(1914). He was a founder-member of the Allied Artists of America (1914), and also belonged to theAmerican Water Color Societyand theNew York Water Color Club(1915). He was elected a full academician of theNational Academy of Design(1937) as well as exhibiting widely.[2]
He retired toBiddeford, Maine,in 1956 and gave a large collection of his work to the Art Gallery of Hamilton in 1963,[2]which celebrated the occasion with a majorretrospectiveexhibition for Arthur Crisp and his wife.[3][9]Arthur Crisp died in Maine in 1974, aged 93.
The Arthur Crisp Papers (1952-1963) are in the Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries, Syracuse, NY (13244-2010).[10]
References
[edit]- ^"History of Illustration, Index".canadianillustrators.wikidot.com.Retrieved5 July2021.
- ^abcdeCharles C. Hill."Arthur Watkins Crisp".The Canadian Encyclopedia.Historica Foundation.Retrieved27 November2011.
- ^abcdBurant, Jim."Arthur Crisp and the Nation's Memory of the First World War".samizdatpress.typepad.com.Hamilton Arts and Letters Issue 5.2 Fall/Winter 2011/2012.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^Foss, Brian (2010)."Painting, c. 1880-1914". The Visual Arts in Canada: the Twentieth Century.Foss, Brian, Paikowsky, Sandra, Whitelaw, Anne (eds.). Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press. p. 34.ISBN978-0-19-542125-5.OCLC432401392.
- ^"Collection".www.themorgan.org.Morgan Library.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^"Arthur Crisp".www.gallery.ca.National Gallery of Canada.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^"Collection".npg.si.edu.National Portrait Gallery.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^"Collection".whitney.org.The Whitney.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^"exhibition archive".www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/exhibitions.Art Gallery of Hamilton.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^"Arthur Crisp Papers".library.syr.edu.Syracuse Universities, N.Y.Retrieved4 July2021.
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