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American, Impressionist Painter. He moved to Munich and enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Where he acquired skills in modeling forms, dark tonality, and bravura brushwork. During his years in France he produced the most popular and profitable works of his career moving toward a lighter palette and abstract simplification of form. He returned to the US in 1887. He enjoyed several warm friendships in the artistic community but, was essentially a "loner," a moody man given to fits of depression and most at ease communing with nature. He preferred to paint close-ups, "bits" as he called them, rather than broad panoramic views. He became most skilled at depicting winter scenes, studies in whiteness, more tonalist than impressionist.
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