Brush, George de Forest

Brush, George de Forest

1888; 1892 to 1893; 1895 to 1897; on and off until 1913 or later

Tepee at Aspet (1888)
Big Tree Farm (1892-93)
Ruggles' (1895)
Woodward House (1895-97)

28 Sep 1855
Shelbyville, Tennessee

24 Apr 1941
Hanover, New Hampshire

New York, New York

Mittie Whelpley Brush
Married 11 Jan 1885

Painter

Ècole des Beaux-Arts
National Academy of Design

Jean-Léon Gérôme

National Academy of Design
Art Students League (instructor)
Cooper Union (instructor)

Hallgarten Prize (1888)
Temple gold medal (1897)
Gold, Paris Exposition Universelle (1900)
Gold, Pan-American Exposition (1901)
Saltus (1909)

Image: George de Forest Brush, Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum, accessed 20 August 2020.

Bowditch, Nancy Douglas, George de Forest Brush: Recollections of a Joyous Painter (Peterborough, NH: Noone House, 1970).

Colby, Virginia Reed and James B. Atkinson, Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire & the Cornish Colony (Cornish NH: Cornish Historical Society, 2010), 149-151.

University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, A Circle of Friends: Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin (Dublin NH: University of New Hampshire, 1985), 77-79.