Lewis Henry Meakin (12 July 1850 – 15 August 1917) was an English- American Impressionist

landscape artist Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composi ...

. Born in Newcastle, England, he moved to

Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wi ...

with his family in 1863. After studying art in Europe he returned to Cincinnati where he taught at the Cincinnati Art Academy. Among his students were Frances Farrand Dodge,

Edna Boies Hopkins Edna Boies Hopkins (October 13, 1872 – March 24, 1937) was an American artist who made woodblock prints, based upon Japanese ukiyo-e art and Arthur Wesley Dow's formula of three main elements: '' notan'', a balance of light and dark, line and c ...

Maud Hunt Squire Maud Hunt Squire (January 30, 1873 – October 25, 1954) was an American painter and printmaker. She had a lifelong relationship with artist Ethel Mars, with whom she traveled and lived in the United States and France. Early life and education ...

, and Ethel Mars. Artist George Bellows called him “one of the best landscape painters in America." A skilled painter of landscapes, Meakin is known for his scenes along the Ohio River, the American and Canadian Rockies, and his depictions of summer in Camden, Maine and Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Meakin began working in a tonalist manner, then moved toward Impressionism around the turn of the century. From his travels to the American West where he pioneered the Impressionist-style for a new region, Meakin earned the title "Father of Western Art." Meakin served as president of the

Cincinnati Art Club The Cincinnati Art Club was formed in 1890 and is one of the oldest continually operating groups or collectives of artists in the United States. It was formed for the purpose of “advancing the knowledge and love of art through education.” The ...

from 1910 to 1912 as

curator A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...

at the

Cincinnati Art Museum The Cincinnati Art Museum is an art museum in the Eden Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1881, it was the first purpose-built art museum west of the Alleghenies, and is one of the oldest in the United States. Its collection of ov ...

from 1911 to 1917, where today some of his pieces are on exhibit. He also served as president of the Society of Western Artists.

References

External links

*
Artwork by Lewis Henry Meakin
1850 births 1917 deaths Painters from Cincinnati Artists from Newcastle upon Tyne 19th-century American painters 19th-century American male artists American male painters 20th-century American painters 20th-century English painters American landscape painters American Impressionist painters English emigrants to the United States 20th-century American male artists People associated with the Cincinnati Art Museum {{US-painter-stub