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George Biddle

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George Biddle (1885 - 1973) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, California.  George Biddle is known for Genre, portrait and figure painting, murals.

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 George Biddle's autobiography of 1939, An American Artist's Story, is the main source for any study of the artist.  Most of Biddle's tale involves Depression-era, American Scene mural painting, for which Biddle was personally responsible, by suggesting a government-sponsored program to his old friend and classmate Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Born on January 24, 1885 in Philadelphia, Biddle received his B.A. from Harvard where he then completed his doctorate in law.  He received art instruction at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, at the Académie Julian in Paris and then in Munich.  During the first world war, Biddle lived in Giverny (1915-16) where he painted outdoor nudes such as Back of a Nude with Parasol (Eleanor and Irv Welling) and Summer 1919 in an impressionist manner.  During this last wave of American expatriate painters at Giverny, Biddle was clearly influenced by Frederick Frieseke, as he explained (Biddle, 1939, p. 149): "   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 32747 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  94
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for George Biddle
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Antiques Deco de Luxe September 2002 Ohrbach, Barbara Milo Yes
American Art Review The Charleston Renaissance October 1999 Severens, Martha R Yes
The Magazine Antiques The Charleston Renaissance November 1998 Severens, Martha Yes
The Magazine Antiques Greenville (SC) County Museum /Art November 1994 Severens, Martha Yes
94 Book References for George Biddle
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Puschendorf, L. Robert Nebraska's Post Office Murals: Born of the Depression, Fostered by the New Deal 112 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
2000 Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942 606 No
1999 Cuba, Stanley John F. Carlson and Artists of the Broadmoor Academy 104 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Grauer, Paula and Michael R. Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945 240 Yes
1999 Love, Richard H Carl W Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester 927 Yes
1998 Severens, Martha R The Charleston Renaissance (Publ. of Charleston Renaissance Gallery) 216 Yes
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1996 Pennington, Estill Curtis Gracious Plenty American Still-Life Art from Southern Collections 127 No
1996 Storr, Robert/Tom Wolf Community of Creativity A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 103 Yes
1996 Yount, Sylvia/Elizabeth Johns To Be Modern American Encounters with Cezanne and Company
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1994 Naumann, Francis M New York Dada 1915-23 255 Yes
1993 Oles, James/Karen Reiman South of the Border Mexico in the American Imagination, 1914-1947 296 Yes
1991 Melosh, Barbara Engendering Culture Manhood & Womanhood in New Deal Public Art & Theater 297 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1989 Colorado Springs Art Center Pikes Peak Vision The Broadmoor Art Academy, 1919-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Whiting, Cecile Antifascism in American Art 238 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Preato, Robert R.; Dr. Sandra L. Langer Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Transformations 1885-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Baigell, Mathew/Julia Williams Artists Against War and Fascism Papers/First American Artists' Congress 310 No
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1985 Weber, Bruce The Fine Line Drawing with Silver in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 103 No
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)		 151 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1984 Sims, Lowery Stokes The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1983 Adams, Clinton American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers 228 Yes
1983 Contreras, Belasario R Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art 253 No
1983 Hills, Patricia Social Concern and Urban Realism American Painting in the 1930s
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 No
1982 Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960
(Exhibition catalog)		 195 Yes
1982 Marling, Karal Ann Wall-to-Wall America A Cultural History of Post Office Murals 348 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Brown, Milton (essay). ACA Galleries Social Art in America 1930-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 No
1981 Nygren, Edward/Julie R Myers Of Time and Place American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 San Diego Museum of Art Catalogue of American Painting 240 Yes
1980 Doezema, Marianne American Realism and the Industrial Age
(Exhibition catalog)		 147 Yes
1980 Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 544 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 University of Minnesota The American Scene Urban & Rural Regionalists, 30s and 40s
(Exhibition catalog)		 39 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1974 Baigell, Mathew The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s 214 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1973 McKinzie, Richard D The New Deal for Artists 203 No
1972 O'Connor, Francis V The New Deal Art Projects An Anthology of Memoirs 339 No
1971 Shalkop, Robert L A Show of Color 100 Years of Painting/Pike's Peak Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 94 No
1970 Hope, Henry Radford (Essay) The American Scene 1900-1970 An Exhibition of twentieth century painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 119 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Museum of Modern Art Editors American Art of the 20's and 30's (Three Catalogues Combined)
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 No
1969 Phillips, Michael/Andrew Hyde A Memorial Exhibition The Nathanial Saltonstall Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1968 Birchman, Willis Faces and Facts about 26 Contemporary Artists (illustrators) 81 No
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1965 Miami, U of, Lowe Art Gallery Virgil Barker Memorial Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 No
1965 Museum of Northern Arizona The American Collection Representative Paintings/Phoenix Art Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
1963 Lipman, Jean (editor) What Is American in American Art 180 Yes
1957 Trovato, Joseph, (Foreward); William C. Murray (Introduction) Portraiture: The 19th and 20th Centuries (Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 36 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Pearson, Ralph M Modern Renaissance in American Art 300 No
1950 Metropolitan Museum 100 American Painters of the 20th Century 132 Yes
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1949 Reese, Albert American Prize Prints of the 20th Century 257 No
1946 Gruskin, Alan D Painting in the U S A 223 Yes
1946 Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro) Contemporary American Painting 260 Yes
1942 Wheeler, Monroe 20th Century Portraits
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1942 Zigrosser, Carl The Artist in America 24 Close-ups of Contemporary Printmakers 207 No
1940 Carnegie Institute Survey of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1939 Biddle, George An American Artist's Story 326 No
1939 Boswell, Peyton Jr Modern American Painting 207 Yes
1939 Cheney, Martha Candler Modern Art in America 190 No
1939 Watson, Forbes (essay) American Painting Today 179 Yes
1936 American Art Congress First American Art Congress 1936 104 No
1935 De Young Memorial Museum Exhibition of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 215 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
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