Guy Orlando Rose (3 March 1867 – 17 November 1925) was an American Impressionist painter and California resident, who received national recognition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Early life and education

Guy Orlando Rose was born March 3, 1867, in San Gabriel, California. He was the seventh child of Leonard John Rose and Amanda Jones Rose. His father was a prominent California senator. He and his wife raised their large family on an expansive Southern California ranch and vineyard – the San Gabriel Valley town of Rosemead bears the family name. In 1876, Guy Rose was accidentally shot in the face during a hunting trip with his brothers, he was only nine years old. While recuperating he began to sketch and use watercolors and oil paints. He graduated from

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in 1884. After graduation he moved to

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where he studied art between 1885 and 1888 at the San Francisco Art Association's California School of Design with Virgil Williams, Warren E. Rollins, and the Danish-born artist

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. In 1886, he received honorable mentions in both drawing and oil painting; a year later he was given the school's coveted Avery Gold Medal in oil painting and contributed a still life with “excellent tone” to the Winter Annual of the San Francisco Art Association. On September 12, 1888, Rose enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris and studied with Benjamin-Constant, Jules Lefebvre, Lucien Doucet, and

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while in Paris. In 1888–89, he won a scholarship at the Académie Delacluse and contributed religious and figural studies as well as landscapes to the Paris Salons in 1890, 1891, 1894, 1900, and 1909. An online facsimile of the entire text of Vol. 1 is posted on the Traditional Fine Arts Organization website (). He met fellow students brothers

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and Frederick Melville DuMond at the Académie Julian – Frank Vincent DuMond and Guy Rose were to remain lifelong friends.

Career

Rose lived in

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, New York in the 1890s and illustrated for ''Harper's'', ''Scribners'', and ''Century''. Choosing to return to France in 1899, he and his wife Ethel Rose bought a cottage at

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. In 1900 he resided in Paris and spent the winter in Briska, Algeria where he painted three known paintings. From 1904 to 1912 husband and wife lived in Giverny and his works from this period show the influence of "the master"

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, who became his friend and mentor. In 1913 to 1914 the Roses summered in and held an outdoor sketching school at Narragansett,

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. Suffering on and off again from the effects of lead poisoning, Rose and his wife moved permanently to Los Angeles, California in 1914. Between 1918 and 1920 the Roses not only painted in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California as summer residents, they became exhibiting members of the local art colony. In 1919 they leased the Carmel cottage of artist Alice Comins. Guy's oils appeared at the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Annual Exhibitions of the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club in 1919 and 1920. At the latter he displayed ''The Beach'' and ''The Point.'' In the fall of 1921 his two Carmel paintings at the

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Art Gallery in Monterey were said to “possess the charm of the subject . . . rendered with much feeling.”The Oakland Tribune, 9 October 1921, p. S-8. In Los Angeles, Guy Rose taught and served as Director of the Stickney Memorial Art School in Pasadena. In 1921 he suffered a debilitating stroke that left him paralyzed. Guy Rose died in Pasadena, California on November 17, 1925. In 1926 the Stendahl Gallery held a memorial exhibition of his works.

Image gallery

Marguerite-by-guy-rose.jpg, ''Marguerite'', ca. 1900 Guy Rose - The Blue Kimono.jpg, ''The Blue Kimono'', 1909 Guy Rose - On the River.jpg, ''On the River'', ca. 1910 Guy Rose - The Green Parasol.JPG, ''The Green Parasol'', 1911 Guy Rose - The Green Mirror.JPG, ''The Green Mirror'', 1911 Guy Rose, 1919 - The Model.jpg, ''The Model'', 1919 Guy Rose, 1919 - In the oak grove.jpg, ''In the oak grove'', 1919 Rose the-old-bridge-france-1910.jpg, ''The Old Bridge'', France, 1910 Blossoms and Wallflowers Rose.jpg, ''Blossoms and Wallflowers'', ca. 1910 Guy-Orlando-Rose-Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Honfleur.jpg, ''Notre Dame de Grâce at

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'', ca. 1910 Guy Rose - La Grosse Pierre, Giverny.jpg, ''La Grosse Pierre'', Giverny, 1910 Guy Rose - The Oak.JPG, ''The Oak'', 1916 Guy Rose - La Jolla Cove.jpg, ''La Jolla Cove'' Guy Rose, 'Lifting Fog', Irvine Museum.jpg, ''Lifting Fog'', Irvine Museum Guy Rose - Mist over Point Lobos.jpg, ''Mist over Point Lobos'', 1918, Fleischer Museum Guy Rose - Path along the Shore.JPG, ''Path along the Shore'',

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References

External links

Guy Rose at The Athenaeum

Monterey Coast

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, near Pasadena, California {{DEFAULTSORT:Rose, Guy American Impressionist painters 1867 births 1925 deaths Modern painters People from the San Gabriel Valley Painters from California Académie Julian alumni San Francisco Art Institute alumni 20th-century American painters 20th-century American male artists American male painters

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