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Guy Pène du Bois

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135: 237:"Guy was then the noted art critic and painter; and even later, when he became the noted painter, he was still the art critic as well, coining his brief aphorisms with a dash of cosmopolitan cynicism, cool wisdom and dry humor. I regretted the intervention of his trips abroad; but our intimate conversations were resumed whenever opportunity afforded, Guy remaining as ever my real spiritual comrade. He was always a wise friend, a wise teacher, the possessor of an individual and rare skill in painting, his life a notable one, his contacts illustrious. I envy him only all that his history entails in names and places, covering so much of our present art history." 31: 234:: "Guy Pene du Bois has long been the auditor of my thoughts on art and life. Our contacts were so pleasurable and profitable. So often in his charming home circle, over our coffee, we would spend hours together, analyzing art conditions, forecasting the careers of various artists then commanding the spotlight, as well as of others whose light shone less brightly. I regret that I made no notes of our talks, for to me they were always an inspiration. 122:(January 4, 1884 – July 18, 1958) was a 20th-century American painter, art critic, and educator. Born in the U.S. to a French family, his work depicted the culture and society around him: cafes, theatres, and in the twenties, 661: 333: 641: 651: 636: 297: 293: 656: 626: 134: 289:
era. There is a mural by Guy Pène du Bois in the Saratoga Springs New York Post Office, "Saratoga in Racing Season" 1937, oil on canvas, two panels.
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Pène du Bois began his artistic training in 1899, when he enrolled in the New York School of Art to study under the painter
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Beginning in 1906, Pène du Bois worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for the
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and the University of Virginia Art Museum. A mural by Pène du Bois titled "
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recalled his close friendship with Pène du Bois in his 1940 autobiography
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Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925
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for the publication two years later. He became the editor of
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His work is in numerous museum collections, including the
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at His Home" was completed in 1938 and installed in the
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His son was the French-American author and illustrator
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Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Brooklyn, New York
Boston, Massachusetts
American
New York School of Art
Painting
flappers

Brooklyn Museum
William Merritt Chase
Robert Henri
Théophile Steinlen
Edward Hopper
Josephine Hopper
art criticism
New York Post
William Pène du Bois
Jerome Myers
Smithsonian American Art Museum
National Gallery of Art
Phillips Collection
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Brooklyn Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
John Jay
United States Post Office
Rye, NY
WPA

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