Bruce Crane

Description

Landscape

10 x 14

Oil on Board

Bruce Crane is an American landscape painter, draughtsman, and teacher most associated with a group of painters in Old Lyme, CT. His artistic training may have begun with his father, an amateur painter, but continued under landscape painter Alexander H. Wyant [1832-1892] from 1876 to 1877 and then at the Art Students League in New York between 1878 to 1882. Crane traveled Europe to refine his artistic vision, studying in France near Grez-sur-Loing for one and a half years where he was influenced by the French Barbizon school.

Returning to America, Crane won the prestigious Webb Prize for landscape painting. In the United States, Crane is known to have painted in New Jersey, East Hampton, Long Island, the Adirondacks (upstate New York) and Old Lyme, CT.

His paintings are part of the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Addison Gallery of American Art-Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; and Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ.

Excerpted from From Here To Antiquity on Askart.com