Amédée Joullin (3 June 1862, in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

– 3 February 1917, in San Francisco) was a

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painter whose work centered on the landscapes of California and on Native Americans.

Biography

He was born in San Francisco to French parents.David Karel, ''Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord''. Les Presses de l'Université Laval. 1992.p. 422. He studied painting at the

San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximatel ...

and then with the painter Jules Tavernier. In 1884, while in Paris, he became impoverished. After returning to the United States in 1886, he was named a professor of painting and design at the San Francisco School of Design, where he stayed for ten years. From 1892 on, he specialized in

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motifs and traveled to Mexico and

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to paint. He created the painting called ''Driving The Golden Spike'' on the southern arch of the rotunda of the

Montana State Capitol The Montana State Capitol is the state capitol of the U.S. state of Montana that houses the Montana State Legislature which is located in the state capital of Helena at 1301 East Sixth Avenue. The building was constructed between 1896 and 1902 ...

.Kirby Lambert,Patricia Burnham, Susan Near, ''Montana's State Capitol: The People's House''. Montana Historical Society Press. 2002. p. 50. For his services, he was paid a sum of $500. From 1900 through 1905, he studied at the

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and attended the

Académie Julian The Académie Julian () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the numbe ...

. On May 25, 1907, he married the artist Lucille Wilcox in New York. He died at his home in San Francisco. His works were collected by several museums in the United States, including the

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of San Francisco, and the

Crocker Art Museum The Crocker Art Museum is the oldest art museum in the Western United States, located in Sacramento, California. Founded in 1885, the museum holds one of the premier collections of Californian art. The collection includes American works dating f ...

in Sacramento.Californiaart.com
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Exhibitions

* ''Trans-Mississippi and international exposition''. Omaha. 1898. * ''First Annual Painters Salon''. San Francisco. 1901. * ''Union League Club''. New York. 1901. * ''South Carolina Interstate Exposition''. Charleston. 1902. * ''Helgesen gallery''. San Francisco. 1910. * ''Panama-Pacific International Exposition''. San Francisco. 1915. * ''Palace of Fine Arts''. San Francisco. 1916. * ''M.H. de Young Memorial Museum'' of San Francisco.

Museum collections

* ''Ball State University Museum of Art''. Muncie. * ''

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''.

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Notes

References

* Gene Hailey, ''California art research'', Volumes 4 à 6. California Art Research Project. 1937. * Kirby Lambert,Patricia Burnham, Susan Near, ''Montana's State Capitol: The People's House''. Montana Historical Society Press. 2002. * Claudine Chalmers, ''French San Francisco''. Arcadia Publishing. 2007. * David Karel, ''Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord''. Les Presses de l'Université Laval. 1992.

External links

More works by Joullin
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