Joseph DeCamp

Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (November 5, 1858 – February 11, 1923) was an American painter and educator

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he studied with Frank Duveneck In the second half of the 1870s he went with Duveneck and fellow students to the Royal Academy of Munich He then spent time in Florence, Italy, returning to Boston in 1883

DeCamp became known as a member of the Boston School led by Edmund C Tarbell and Emil Otto Grundmann, focusing on figure painting, and in the 1890s adopting the style of Tonalism He was a founder of the Ten American Painters, a group of American Impressionists, in 1897 Following Thomas Hovenden's sudden death in 1895, DeCamp was hired to teach at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but resigned after one year because of ill health From 1903 until his death in 1923, he was a faculty member at Massachusetts Normal Art School, now Massachusetts College of Art and Design, teaching painting from the living model and portraiture He also taught painting classes at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Among his pupils was Gertrude Nason

In 1891, he married Edith Franklin Baker (1868–1955) They had four children: Sarah "Sally" (1892–1973), Theodore "Ted" (1894–1955), Lydia (1896–1974), and Pauline (1899–) Family members served as models for a number of his paintings

A 1904 fire in his Boston studio destroyed several hundred of his early paintings, including nearly all of his landscapes

He died in Boca Grande, Florida

He was awarded the 1899 Temple Gold Medal (for Woman Drying Her Hair), the 1912 Beck Gold Medal (for Portrait of Francis I Amory), and the 1920 Lippincott Prize (for The Red Kimono) by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts He received an honorable mention at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris (for Woman Drying Her Hair) His exhibit at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair — Reading – The Sea Wall – Portrait of Arthur P DeCamp — was awarded a gold medal He was awarded the 1909 Clarke Silver Medal by the Corcoran Gallery of Art (for The Guitar Player) He was awarded the 1915 gold medal by the Philadelphia Art Club (for The Silver Waist)

In 1902, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician

Works:
The Hammock (ca 1895), Terra Foundation for American Art The artist's wife Edith, daughter Sally, and infant son Ted
The Hammock - Portrait of the Artist's Wife and Children (ca 1895), Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois
Woman Drying Her Hair (ca 1899), Cincinnati Art Museum
Arthur P DeCamp - Portrait of the Artist's Brother (ca 1900), Longyear Historical Society & Museum, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Farewell (ca 1900-02), private collection Set an auction record for a work by DeCamp – Christie's NY, 5 December 2013, $821,000
Portrait of Dr Horace Howard Furness (1906), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Sally - Portrait of the Artist's Daughter (1907), Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt (1908), Memorial Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Cellist (1908), Cincinnati Art Museum
The Guitar Player (1908), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Portrait of Francis I Amory (1909), private collection
Three Friends - Portrait of Isaac H Clothier, His Son and Grandson (1912), private collection The title has a double meaning, the Clothiers were Quakers, members of the Society of Friends
The Seamstress (1916), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Steward - Portrait of George Washington Lewis (1919), Porcellian Club, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Lewis was steward of the Harvard final club for more than 45 years
Portrait of Edward Tuck (1919), Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
The Red Kimono (1920), Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida
The Blue Mandarin Coat (1922), High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia DeCamp's final painting
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