Earlier he had done crisply rendered figures of elegant women in panoramic landscape and more softly rendered fantasy figures of fairylike women among roses, a rare example of American Symbolism. Invited to Cragsmoor by Dellenbaugh in 1903, Curran was immediately charmed by it, and he completed a house there in 1910. One of the painters involved with Impressionism was Charles Courtney Curran.

Many more came early in this century, at the time that Impressionism was proliferating. Frederick Dellenbaugh arrived two years later, and Eliza Greatorex in 1884. The genre specialist Edward Lamson Henry had built a house in Cragsmoor about 1884, after visiting in 1879. Curran, a prolific artist who exhibited works at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1887 until 1935, and at the National Academy of Design in New York from 1883 through 1943, spent his summers in Cragsmoor, New York, where he found the majority of subject matter for his work.Ĭragsmoor was a small art colony in the 'Hudson River Valley outside of Ellenville, which had developed earlier. Libraries, Archives, and Museums, and Copyright Watch.įor more information about the Museum's rights project, including how rights types are assigned, please see our blog posts on copyright.Summer, very likely painted in Cragsmoor, New York, is an outstanding example of Charles Curran's most inspired light-filled Impressionist landscapes. The Brooklyn Museum makes no representations or warranties with respect to the application or terms of any international agreement governing copyright protection in the United States for works created by foreign nationals.įor further information about copyright, we recommend resources at the United States Library of Congress, Cornell University, Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for U.S.

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