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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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Artist: Emile Gruppe
"Rainy Day" Emile Gruppe, Cape Ann, Rockport, Gloucester, Impressionist
By Emile Gruppe
Located in New York, NY
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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Cape Ann Artist Emile Gruppe "Birches" a Vermont Landscape
By Emile Gruppe
Located in Rockport, MA
A prominent American Impressionist, Emile Gruppé was celebrated for his plein-air painting, often working outdoors to capture the fleeting light and atmosphere of his surroundings. I...
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20th Century American Impressionist Emile Gruppe Art

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Emile Gruppe, Gloucester Harbor Scene by American Impressionist Painter
By Emile Gruppe
Located in Rockport, MA
Emile Gruppé beautifully captures a busy Gloucester harbor scene with fishermen tending to their boats—a signature subject for the artist. This example is pre-1945. Gruppé was reno...
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20th Century American Impressionist Emile Gruppe Art

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Oil

Seascape at Naples Beach, Florida- Coastal Landscape Oil Painting in Gold Frame
By Emile Gruppe
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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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Canvas, Oil

Emile Albert Gruppe Painter Artist Emile Gruppé Mountain Landscape Scene
By Emile Gruppe
Located in Rockport, MA
A beautiful landscape by Gloucester Artist, Emile Gruppe (1896-1978). Painting is Oil on Canvas, 16"x20".
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20th Century American Impressionist Emile Gruppe Art

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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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Seascape Emile Gruppe Emile Albert Gruppe Gloucester Artist Painter
By Emile Gruppe
Located in Rockport, MA
Wonderful mood in this oil painting by the Cape Ann Master Impressionist, Emile Gruppe. "Foggy Morning, Gloucester" is a stunning harbor scene with fishing schooners. The painting ...
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Mid-20th Century Emile Gruppe Art

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Oil

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