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Emile Gruppe Art

1896-1978
Emile Gruppe (1896-1978) 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 New England in autumn and winter, or his harbor scenes of Rockport and Gloucester in Massachusetts. Gruppe was born in 1896 in Rochester, New York to an artistic family--his father, brother, sister and nephew were all artists. Emile spent his youth in Holland, where his father, Charles Gruppe, worked as an artist. 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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"Forest Woods, Woodstock" Emile Gruppe, American Impressionist, Autumn Woods
"Forest Woods, Woodstock" Emile Gruppe, American Impressionist, Autumn Woods

"Forest Woods, Woodstock" Emile Gruppe, American Impressionist, Autumn Woods

By Emile Gruppe

Located in New York, NY

Emile Gruppe Forest Woods, Woodstock, 1928 Signed and dated lower right Oil on canvas 32 1/8 x 40 1/2 inches Provenance Private Collection, California Emile Gruppe was an unusuall...

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1920s American Impressionist Emile Gruppe Art

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Canvas, Oil

Emile A. Gruppé Vermont Village "Landscape with Church, VT"
Emile A. Gruppé Vermont Village "Landscape with Church, VT"

Emile A. Gruppé Vermont Village "Landscape with Church, VT"

By Emile Gruppe

Located in Rockport, MA

This picturesque Vermont landscape by Emile A. Gruppé depicts a village nestled among rolling hills and vibrant autumn foliage. A white church steeple rises above the clustered build...

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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Emile Gruppe Art

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Oil

Seascape at Naples Beach, Florida- Coastal Landscape Oil Painting in Gold Frame
Seascape at Naples Beach, Florida- Coastal Landscape Oil Painting in Gold Frame

Seascape at Naples Beach, Florida- Coastal Landscape Oil Painting in Gold Frame

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Located in Marco Island, FL

Gorgeous original oil painting of Naples Beach, Florida by renowned American artist Emile Gruppe. The perspective of the painting allows the viewer to travel past the native palm t...

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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Emile Gruppe Art

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Winter Forest with Stream
Winter Forest with Stream

Winter Forest with Stream

By Emile Gruppe

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

Signed lower right: Emile A. Gruppe Emile Gruppe once said, “If you want exacting details in a painting, then you might as well look at a photograph. I make an impression on a canva...

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20th Century American Impressionist Emile Gruppe Art

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Emile A. Gruppé, "Country Road, " Impressionist Woodland Landscape Oil Painting
Emile A. Gruppé, "Country Road, " Impressionist Woodland Landscape Oil Painting

Emile A. Gruppé, "Country Road, " Impressionist Woodland Landscape Oil Painting

By Emile Gruppe

Located in Rockport, MA

Signed Lower Right Painting size without frame: 25"x30" A beautiful landscape by Emile A. Gruppé depicting a winding country road bordered by slender birch trees illuminated by warm...

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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Emile Gruppe Art

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"Rainy Day" Emile Gruppe, Cape Ann, Rockport, Gloucester, Impressionist
"Rainy Day" Emile Gruppe, Cape Ann, Rockport, Gloucester, Impressionist

"Rainy Day" Emile Gruppe, Cape Ann, Rockport, Gloucester, Impressionist

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Emile Gruppe Rainy Day Signed lower left Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches Emile Gruppe was an unusually prolific artist. He was at his easel almost every day and created thousands of pa...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Emile Gruppe Art

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Emile A. Gruppé “Sunlight on the Steeple” New England Landscape Oil
Emile A. Gruppé “Sunlight on the Steeple” New England Landscape Oil

Emile A. Gruppé “Sunlight on the Steeple” New England Landscape Oil

By Emile Gruppe

Located in Rockport, MA

"Sunlight on the Steeple" is a luminous New England landscape by Emile A. Gruppé (1896–1978), one of America’s most celebrated Impressionists and a leading figure of the Cape Ann art...

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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Emile Gruppe Art

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