Robert Reid (American painter)
Robert Reid | |
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Born | Robert Lewis Reid July 29, 1862 |
Died | December 2, 1929 | (aged 67)
Resting place | Stockbridge Cemetery Stockbridge, Massachusetts 42°17′07″N 73°19′05″W / 42.285354°N 73.318018°W |
Robert Lewis Reid (July 29, 1862 – December 2, 1929) was an
Life and work
Robert Reid was born in
Upon returning to New York in 1889, he worked as a portraitist and later became an instructor at the Art Students League and Cooper Union.
Paintings
He painted three murals for the Manufactures Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and exhibited four paintings in its Fine Arts Building. His work, including the tragic Her First Born (1888), was awarded a medal for excellence.[2]
Reid was a member of the
From 1898 to 1899 Robert Reid's work, his impressionist nude Opal, was picked and exhibited by the Western Art Association Academy. This was for a wider exhibition of the Trans Mississippi art collection, his work was shown at the Omaha Public Library.[3]
Reid worked on several mural projects around the turn of the century. When he returned to paintings, around 1905, his work was more naturalistic, and his palette tended toward soft pastels.
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Her First Born (1888), Brooklyn Museum
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Girl with Flowers
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The Yellow Flower aka The Artist's Wife in the Garden (1908)
Murals
Reid's murals are in the
His murals for the Palace of Fine Arts building at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco, 1915) were an extraordinary tribute to the Arts.
Eight huge panels graced the ceiling of the rotunda: The Four Golds of California (Golden Metal, Wheat, Citrus Fruits, and Poppies);
plus Ideals in Art, Inspirations of All Arts, the Birth of European Art and Birth of Oriental Art.[4] These paintings no longer exist in San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, which was re-built in the 1960s, and their current whereabouts are unknown.
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The Five Senses (ceiling mural), Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress
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Wisdom (1896), Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress
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Knowledge (1896), Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress
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Wisdom (1896), Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress
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Ideals in Art (domed ceiling panel) (1914), Rotunda, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
Stained glass
In 1906 Reid completed a series of ten stained glass windows depicting the Life of Christ for the Unitarian Memorial Church in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. For the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City, he created The Martyrdom of St. Paul Window, located at the southwestern end of the nave.
"Chicagoans knew Reid as the artist who painted a mammoth Navy recruiting poster that embellished the billboard at the northern terminus of Michigan Avenue for several months" (before 1918).[5]
Honors
The National Academy of Design elected Reid an Associate member in 1904, and an Academician in 1906.[a]
Personal
Reid also taught Nan Sheets.[6]
Reid died in Clifton Springs, New York.
Bibliography
Annotations
- Post-nominal initials "A.N.A." and "N.A." were added to Reid's name in 1904 and 1906, respectively – the National Academy of Design's acronyms for membership designations: "Associate National Academician" and "National Academician."
Notes
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, 1910, p. 50.
- ^ Flinn, 1893.
- ISBN 9780803278806.)
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: CS1 maint: date and year (link - ^ Neuhaus, 1915, p. 85.
- ^ Stuart, January 1918.
- ^ Heller & Heller, 1995, p. 507.
References linked to inline notes
- "Reid, Robert (1862–)". The Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). .
- Flinn, John Joseph, ed. (1893). Official Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition. Chicago: The Columbian Guide Company. pp. 102–103. .
- Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G., eds. (1995). "Sheets, Nan Jane (1885– )". North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing. p. 507. .
- OCLC 1132898377. Retrieved February 24, 2015 – via Google Books. Re: Panama–Pacific International Exposition.
- Stuart, Evelyn Marie (January 1918). "Finished Impressions of a Portrait Painter". OCLC 7586587588.
Other references
- Reid, Robert (March 30 – April 19, 1926). Exhibition: The Affairs of Anatol (Exhibition catalog). OCLC 245523075.
- Katz, Wendy, ed. (2018). The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803278806.[1]