Frederick Carl Frieseke Art

"Hill at Giverny" is an oil on canvas painting made in 1915 by Frederick Carl Frieseke. The work is signed in the lower left, "F.C. Frieseke". The framed sized is 36 x 42 x 4 1/8 inches. Frieseke trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Académie Julian. He worked in the style known as Decorative Impressionism, known for very bright colors, rough brushstrokes, and lack of shadows, as seen in the work. Frieseke exhibited his work in 1910 at Madison Gallery in New York alongside Guy Rose, Richard Edward Miller, Lawton S. Parker, Edward W. Greacen, and Karl Anderson, where they were termed "The Giverny Group." From 1906 to 1919, Frieseke spent summers in an artist colony in Giverny. There, he was next-door neighbors with Claude Monet and his house had been previously owned by Theodore Robinson. Giverny landscape and gardens were a prominent subject matter for Frieseke at this point in his career. His works often concentrated on the various effects of dappled sunlight playing upon his beautiful, natural surroundings. Frieseke is featured in the collections of major museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Dallas Museum of Art, and Art Institute of Chicago. Provenance: By direct descent in the artist's family Private Collection, New York Exhibition: New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Frederick Frieseke, 1874-1939, April-May 1966 Savannah, Georgia, Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences; New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries; Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art; St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts; Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Frederick Frieseke, 1874-1939, November 1974-June 1975, no. 7 Owosso, Michigan, Shiawassee Arts Council, 1976 San Francisco, California, Maxwell Galleries, A Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of F.C. Frieseke, May-June 1982, no. 20, illustrated in color p. 24 Savannah, Georgia, Telfair Museum of Art; Memphis, Tennessee, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens; San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art; Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art, Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist, March 2001-February 2002, no. 49, illustrated in color p. 173 Literature: This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Frieseke's work being compiled by Nicholas Kilmer...

the most important American Impressionists of his age. While many of his contemporaries focused on the landscape, Frieseke gained his inspiration from the figural, and in particular the theme of femininity. His works capture female figures engaging in traditionally feminine roles — strolling in the garden or posed in a domestic interior. At the Mirror...

Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this work by Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874 – 1939). Frederick Carl Frieseke was a member of the third generation of American painters to inhabit and find inspiration from Giverny, France. His use of bright colors and light, to depict the female figure, defined the style of the Giverny group during his residence, synthesizing aspects of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Born in the United States, Frieseke studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. In 1898, he moved to Paris to enroll in the Académie Julian, where he studied under Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. During this time, Frieseke also briefly studied with James A. Whistler, who would prove to be a great inspiration in Frieseke’s early works. From Whistler, Frieseke adopted a tonalist palette and a decorative approach to figurative painting. While in Paris, Frieseke’s works were featured at the American Art Association of Paris and in several annual salon exhibitions. His painting, “Before the Mirror...

A painting by Frederick Carl Frieseke. "Afternoon at the Beach" is a large scale, oil on canvas painting of a beach scene, depicting beach goers...