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Robert Lee MacCameron

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Robert Lee MacCameron (1866 - 1912) was active/lived in New York, Illinois / France.  Robert MacCameron is known for Figure, genre-interiors and portrait painting.

Robert Lee MacCameron  (1866-1912)
 
Born Chicago, Illinois in 1866, he spent his youth in Necadah, Wisconsin where his father was in the state legislature. He studied art briefly in Wisconsin and then went to New York where he was a pupil of William Merritt Chase.

In 1888, he went to London and there worked for The Boys' Own, a children's magazine. By 1891, he was in Paris and studied in the atelier of  Jean Leon Gerome. He also was a student of Raphael Collin and James Whistler, and exhibited in the Salons kof 1894, 1895, and 1904 where he received honorable mention. 

During this period he focused his painting on 'down and out' persons of the streets of Paris, emphasizing misery and "reduced circumstances." He worked in a realist style.

By 1912, he was back in New York City, where he was elected to the National Academy of Design, and in contrast to his Parisian subjects, did portrait painting of the upper class---society portrait   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2155 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Interior Scenes
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Portraits: Notables, Society, Celebrity, Historical and/or Royalty
  • Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
  • Social Realism
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
  • England, London Great Britain After 1900
  • Europe
  • France Before 1900
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
  • Paris Society of American Painters
Art Teacher
  • James McNeill Whistler
  • Jean Leon Gerome
  • Raphael Collin
  • William Merritt Chase
Art School
  • Academie Julian, Paris, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
  • Figure Specialty
  • Genre Specialty
  • Portrait Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
Exhibition of Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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