cv | works | sculptures | site specific | environmental | land art | architectural | publications | exhibitions | symposia/lectures | cities | encounters | accounts
Robert Emmett Owen (1878-1957)
old apple tree in blossom Robert Emmett Owen (1878 - 1957)
During the mid-eighties I traded one of my own paintings
with Rob Visser, a friend who had lived in the US, where he had acquired
this oil painting by Robert Emmett Owen (1878 - 1957).
Now that my family and I live on
Penttilä in the Finnish lake
district, I find myself living in this painting - even though the subject
of Emmett Owen's painting is in New England.
Robert Owen studied at the Drury Academy in North Adams and the Eric
Pape School of Art in Boston. At a very early age he had several drawings
accepted by "Life Magazine"., The Boston Globe, Christian
Endeavor, and other publications. In his earliest paintings, Owen combined
sharply outlined architectural structures with sketchy impressionistic
figures, as Claude Monet rendered them in Boulevard des Capucines (Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri). In 1900, Owen went to New York
City, where he earned his living as an illustrator for Harper's
Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Life, and
Women's Home Companion. He married
Miriam Rogg in 1903. They moved to Bagnall, Connecticut in 1910. He
studied for a while with tonalist Leonard Ochtman, assisted in the formation
of the Greenwich Society of Artists in 1912 and became a member of the
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts in 1915.
In 1923 he opened
his first gallery in New York City and it had three different locations
over the years. Later he moved into the Rembrandt Building, adjacent
to Carnegie Hall. He exhibited his works at the National Academy of
Design (1912 and 1914) and at the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts in
Hartford. In 1936, eighty-six of his paintings were shown at the Dwight
Art Memorial, Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Massachusetts
Anxious to get out in the field to paint again, Owen closed his last
gallery in 1941 and moved to New Rochelle, New York to work as artist-in-residence
at the Thomas Paine Memorial Museum.
back to collection
search this site
3D anaglyph photographs of my sculpture
works©author: Lucien den Arend
© 1998/present denarend.com
Google
this site was developed by
DutchDeltaDesign
Penttilä
Seppäläntie 860 51200 Kangasniemi Finland
telephone +358 (0)44 264 12 12
