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Emile Albert Gruppe Art

American, 1888-1967
Emile Gruppe was an unusually prolific artist. He was at his easel almost every day and created thousands of paintings over a career that lasted 60 years. At his peak, he was completing almost 200 oil paintings a year. Yet he has never failed to find an audience for his depictions of seasonal New England or harbor scenes of Rockport and Gloucester. Gruppe was born in 1896 in Rochester, New York to an artistic family. Emile spent his youth in a fishing village in Holland, where his father, Charles Gruppe, worked as both an artist and an art dealer. Emile lived in the Netherlands until he was 17, when the family returned permanently to the United States to avoid World War I. In New York City, Gruppe attended classes at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League, where he studied under Charles Chapman and George Bridgman. He also studied with John Carlson in Woodstock, New York, where he gained an appreciation for outdoor painting. Carlson “turned me into a painter,” he later said. Gruppe helped found the Rockport Art Association in 1921, but he is most closely linked to Gloucester where he lived from about 1940 until his death. He operated the Gloucester School of Painting from the 1940s into the 1970s and helped turn the Rocky Neck area of East Gloucester into a world-famous art colony. The school boasted an impressive faculty but Gruppe’s own exuberant plein-air demonstrations were often the highlight of the week. Gloucester, with its fleet of whimsically painted fishing vessels, crowded wharf buildings and shacks, and picturesque inhabitants, never ceased to fascinate Gruppe. He also helped popularize Rockport’s famous fishing shack known as Motif #1, sometimes called “the most often-painted building in America.” By the 1940s, Gruppe was one of the most prominent of the Cape Ann artists, a group that included Frederick Mulhaupt, Anthony Thieme, Theresa Bernstein, Marguerite Pierson, William Lester Stevens, and Aldro Thompson Hibbard. The painters of this ‘Cape Ann School’ were some of the first U.S. artists to employ plein air painting techniques. Gruppe’s style, which tended toward Tonalism early in his career, mutated into a bold impressionism in the 1940s and 1950s. Gruppe occasionally traveled to Jeffersonville, VT where he loved to paint the picturesque country roads, farms, and forests, sometimes with distinctive white birch trees. Later in life, he wintered in Florida where he painted some tropical scenes. Though Gruppe suffered a stroke in the early 1970s, he continued to paint until his death in 1978. On the morning he died, the 82-year-old artist had stretched a canvas in preparation for a day of painting. Gruppe’s portrayals of the archetypal the houses, harbors, and rural landscape of New England have never gone out of style. His expressive impressionistic paintings continue to appeal to twenty-first-century sensibilities of a seemingly eternal New England, barely touched by modernity.
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Artist: Emile Albert Gruppe
Harbor Scene With Sailboats Seascape
Harbor Scene With Sailboats Seascape

Harbor Scene With Sailboats Seascape

By Emile Albert Gruppe

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Harbor Scene With Sailboats Seascape Signed lower left, canvas 20x20, about 1930-40. Emile Albert Gruppé was born 1896 in Rochester, New York. He lived the early years of his life in...

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1930s Impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Art

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Emile Albert Gruppe Cape Ann Marine Oil Painting, Boats at Dock
Emile Albert Gruppe Cape Ann Marine Oil Painting, Boats at Dock

Emile Albert Gruppe Cape Ann Marine Oil Painting, Boats at Dock

By Emile Albert Gruppe

Located in Milford, NH

A fine impressionist marine painting of boats at dock on Cape Ann by American artist Emile Albert Gruppé (1896-1978). Gruppé was born in Rochester, NY, and is renowned for his New En...

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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Art

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Canvas, Oil

Sunset, Rockport Harbor
Sunset, Rockport Harbor

Sunset, Rockport Harbor

By Emile Albert Gruppe

Located in Milford, NH

A colorful Cape Ann, Massachusetts marine harbor scene with boats docked by American artist Emile Albert Gruppé (1896-1978). Gruppé was born in Rochester, NY, and is renowned for his New England landscapes and vigorous portrayals of the harbors and houses of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The son of landscape artist Charles P. Gruppé (1860-1940), Emile enjoyed a long and successful career that spanned over six decades.In 1925, Gruppé began spending summers in Gloucester. He established a studio on Rocky Neck in East Gloucester where he taught plein-air classes. In 1942 —along with Bridgman, Carlson, Miller and Chapman—he established the Gruppé Summer School, which he continued to operate until 1970.Gruppé’s works hang in many colleges and museums: Smith College, Silberman College in Montreal, the University of Idaho, the Los Angeles Museum, the San Antonio Museum and the de Cordova Museum. His paintings are also at the White House in Washington, D.C. and the Gruppe Summer School in Gloucester. Oil on canvas, signed lower right, title inscribed on verso stretcher “Sunset, Rockport Harbor...

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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Art

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Canvas, Oil

Emile Albert Gruppe Gloucester Docks
Emile Albert Gruppe Gloucester Docks

Emile Albert Gruppe Gloucester Docks

By Emile Albert Gruppe

Located in Dallas, TX

Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) Gloucester Docks, circa 1950 Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm) Original Frame: 26 X 30 Inches Signed lower right: Emile A. Grup...

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1950s Emile Albert Gruppe Art

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Emile Albert Gruppe Fishing Boats Ex- Christies 30x36
Emile Albert Gruppe Fishing Boats Ex- Christies 30x36

Emile Albert Gruppe Fishing Boats Ex- Christies 30x36

By Emile Albert Gruppe

Located in Dallas, TX

Emile Gruppé (1896-1978) Fishing Boats A large and commanding marine sailboat fishing boat scene with blue waters and blue skies. Birds are flying up above and fish swimming below ...

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1940s American Impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Art

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Emile Albert Gruppe “Winter - Gloucester MA”
Emile Albert Gruppe “Winter - Gloucester MA”

Emile Albert Gruppe “Winter - Gloucester MA”

By Emile Albert Gruppe

Located in Dallas, TX

Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) "Winter - Gloucester, Mass" Oil on canvas Signed "Emile A. Gruppe" (lower right) Canvas: 20 x 24 Inchesinches Framed: 27 x 31 inches Prove...

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1950s American Impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Art

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Canvas, Oil

Tree Screen
Tree Screen

Tree Screen

By Emile Albert Gruppe

Located in Milford, NH

A fine impressionist New England woodland landscape by American artist Emile Albert Gruppé (1896-1978). Gruppé was born in Rochester, NY, and is renowned for his New England landscap...

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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Art

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Canvas, Oil

Emile Albert Gruppe Bass Rocks 36x30
Emile Albert Gruppe Bass Rocks 36x30

Emile Albert Gruppe Bass Rocks 36x30

By Emile Albert Gruppe

Located in Dallas, TX

Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) Bass Rock, 1967 Oil on canvas 30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm) Signed lower right: Emile A. Gruppe Signed, dated, and titled on the stretcher...

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1960s Expressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Art

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Canvas, Oil

Emile Albert Gruppe “Nymphs” Oil Painting Nudes by a River
Emile Albert Gruppe “Nymphs” Oil Painting Nudes by a River

Emile Albert Gruppe “Nymphs” Oil Painting Nudes by a River

By Emile Albert Gruppe

Located in Dallas, TX

An absolutely amazing post Impressionist painting with a cascade of bright colors showing nudes by a riverside with birch trees in the foreground and mountains in the background. Emi...

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1970s Emile Albert Gruppe Art

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Provincetown Dock
Provincetown Dock

Provincetown Dock

By Emile Albert Gruppe

Located in Milford, NH

This beautiful marine oil painting of a Provincetown dock on Cape Cod was done by American artist Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978). Gruppe was born in Rochester, NY, and went on to be...

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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Art

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Oil, Board

Emile Albert Gruppe Important Fall Landscape 40x30
Emile Albert Gruppe Important Fall Landscape 40x30

Emile Albert Gruppe Important Fall Landscape 40x30

By Emile Albert Gruppe

Located in Dallas, TX

Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978) Fall landscape Oil on canvas laid to canvas Signed lower right: Emile A. Gruppe Canvas: 40" H x 30" W Inches Framed: 48.25 x 38.25 Inches Very large ...

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1940s American Modern Emile Albert Gruppe Art

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Oil

Emile Albert Gruppe Hauling The Nets
Emile Albert Gruppe Hauling The Nets

Emile Albert Gruppe Hauling The Nets

By Emile Albert Gruppe

Located in Dallas, TX

Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) Post Impressionist Titled Verso: “Hauling The Nets” Oil on canvas Canvas: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm) Framed Dimensions 31 X 36 Inches S...

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1960s Post-Modern Emile Albert Gruppe Art

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Emile Albert Gruppe Grey Day Gloucester
Emile Albert Gruppe Grey Day Gloucester

Emile Albert Gruppe Grey Day Gloucester

By Emile Albert Gruppe

Located in Dallas, TX

GRUPPE Emile Albert, (American, 1896-1978) Title: “Gray Day, Gloucester” Oil on Canvas Painting: 20' x 24 Inches Signed lower right: Emile A Gruppe Framed: 24.5 x 28.75 Inches (N...

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1940s Post-Modern Emile Albert Gruppe Art

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Emile Albert Gruppe Morning Gloucester
Emile Albert Gruppe Morning Gloucester

Emile Albert Gruppe Morning Gloucester

By Emile Albert Gruppe

Located in Dallas, TX

Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896 - 1978), "Morning, Gloucester", oil on canvas, signed lower left "Emile A. Gruppe", Canvas: 24 x 20 Inches Framed: 27.25 x 23.25 Inches Conditi...

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1950s Emile Albert Gruppe Art

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