Charles Paul Gruppé

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Charles Paul Gruppé
(American, 1860-1940)

Dusk in a Polder Landscape

Signed 'Charles P. Gruppé' (lower left)
Oil on Canvas
19 x 15.4 in (48.3 x 39.1 cm)

(in its spectacular original carved and gilded presentation frame)

	Provenance: Christie's Amsterdam, 2000 Museums and Collections: The Netherlands Royal Collection, The Hague; The National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., The Detroit Institute of Arts; The Brooklyn Museum; The San Diego Museum of Art, The Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, The Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; numerous public and private collections throughout North America and Europe.

	Although he was the patriarch of four generations of Gloucester, Massachusetts artists, Charles Paul Gruppé is closely identified with the School of The Hague. His portrayal of the muted, subtle Dutch landscape with its rich, dark tonal qualities, is so authentic that he was elected into the exclusive Pulchre Studio in the Hague, a unique honor for an American. During the years between 1890 and 1914, Gruppé was awarded gold medals in Paris and Rouen, and later won two silver medals at the Saint Louis World's Fair. In 1917, he was awarded the Tuthill Prize by the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Rochester Art Club, the Philadelphia Art Club, the Salmagundi Club and the American Federation of Arts. His son, Emile Albert, founded the Gruppé Summer School in Gloucester in 1942. Gruppé did many portraits in oil, watercolor, chalk and pencil, but it is his landscape and marine painting for which he earned his lasting reputation.