Charles Stanley Reinhart (May 16, 1844 – August 30, 1896), usually cited as C. S. Reinhart, was an American painter and illustrator. He was a nephew of artist Benjamin Franklin Reinhart.

Biography

C.S. Reinhart was born in

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. After having been employed in railway work and at a steel factory, he studied art at the Atelier Suisse in

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and at the

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under Straehuber and Otto. Afterwards he settled in

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, but spent the years 1882–86 in Paris where he exhibited regularly in the

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. As a young artist, he along with

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and

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, studied under Charles Parsons, who was head of the art department at Harper Brothers in the 1870s. A collection of 247 letters, eight original drawings, and two sketchbooks can be found at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. A contemporary reviewer said of Reinhart: Reinhart-Washed-Ashore-1887

A principal painting, ''Washed Ashore'', depicts the varied reactions of observers to a drowned sailor on a beach. It earned him an Honorable Mention at the 1887 Paris Salon, and the 1888

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from the

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to be the most beautiful monetary designs ever produced by the United States.

Works

Among his works are: * "Reconnoitring" * "Caught Napping" * "September Morning" * "Moonshiners" (''

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'', November 2, 1878) * "At the Ferry" (watercolor, 1878) * "The Old Life Boat" (oil, 1880) * "

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" (1881) * "Spanish Barber" (watercolor, 1884) * "Mussel Fisherwoman" (oil, 1886) * "Washed Ashore" (won a gold medal at Philadelphia in 1888; oil, 1887) * "Rising Tide" (purchased by the government at the Paris Exposition, 1889; oil, 1888) * "Normandy Coast" * "Gathering Wood" (watercolor, 1887) * "Sunday" * "English Garden"

Black and white series

* ''Reichstag Sketches'' * ''A Little Swiss Sojourn'' * ''Americans Abroad''
Works online from Library of Congress (43)
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in the

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from a Reinhart watercolor circa 1890 File:Charles S. Reinhart (1895) from Tom Grogan.jpg, Illustration appearing in "Tom Grogan" (by author Francis Hopkinson Smith) installment in December 1895 issue of The Century Magazine.

Literary significance and criticism

It has been argued that the short story ''

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'' by

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uses Charles Stanley Reinhart as the prototype for its protagonist. Cather wrote a feature story about the first anniversary of the death of Reinhart in 1897 when she attended the erection of his monument

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.Bernice Slote, 'Willa Cather and Her First Book', Willa Cather, ''April Twilights'', University of Nebraska Press, 1968, page xlii

Notes

References

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External links

Works by Charles S. Reinhart at the Library of Congress
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Finding aid to Charles Stanley Reinhart papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Reinhart, Charles Stanley 1844 births 1896 deaths 19th-century American painters American male painters American people of German descent Artists from Pittsburgh Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni Burials at Allegheny Cemetery National Academy of Design associates 19th-century American male artists