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The Cyber Art Show continues our study of American Impressionist landscape painters in the Public Domain with the third of three 12-piece Exhibitions of works by Guy Orlando Rose (1867-1925).

 

Rose was born San Gabriel, California, the seventh child in a prominent family, to a father who was a state senator. After being accidentally shot in the face while hunting with his brothers, the young Rose took up sketching and painting with watercolors while recuperating.

 

Rose began his formal art education in 1884 at the California School of Design in San Francisco, studying under the Danish-born artist Emil Carlsen. Four years later he enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he studied with Benjamin-Constant, Jules Lefebvre, Lucien Doucet and Jean-Paul Laurens. It was then that he met classmate Frank Vincent, who would become one of Rose’s lifelong friends.

 

During the 1890s, Rose resided in New York, where he became an illustrator for Harper’s and Scribner’s. Upon his return to France 10 years later, he and his wife bought a cottage at Giverny, where they would live from 1904-1912. During these years Rose became profoundly influenced by the master, Claude Monet, who became his friend and mentor.

 

After Rose and his wife moved to California in 1914, he taught and served as Director of the Stickney Memorial School of Art in Pasadena. Rose began receiving international accolades for his paintings and was awarded a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915 and a gold medal the same year at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego.

 

In 1921 he won the William Preston Harrison Prize from the California Art Club. Unfortunately that same year he suffered a debilitating stroke that left him paralyzed. Guy Rose died in Pasadena, California on November 17, 1925.

 

In 1926 the Stendahl Gallery held a memorial exhibition of his works. Today Guy Rose is considered one of the top Impressionist artists in California history.