Robert Emmett Owen (1878 - 1957) American
Oil on Canvas
Measure 29"in H x 23 3/4"in W and 34"in H x 28"in W with frame
Known for: Seasonal landscape and genre painting, illustration
Name variants: Robert Emmett
Biography: Robert Emmett Owen was a successful artist best known for his Impressionist views of rural landscapes. His color-filled paintings capture the moods and seasonal splendor of the New England countryside. Owen began his art training at the Drury Academy in his home town of North Adams, Massachusetts. In 1897, while supporting himself by working at a local retail establishment, he contributed pen and ink drawings to Life Magazine, initiating what would be a long and productive career as an illustrator. The next year, he received a scholarship to study at the Eric Pape School of Art in Boston. After nine years in New York, Owen moved to Bagnall, Connecticut, near Stamford, in order to paint landscape subjects directly. In the period that followed, he exhibited at the Greenwich Society of Artists in 1912, the National Academy of Design in 1912 and 1913, and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts in 1915 (to which he was elected a member). His work was well liked by critics and the public, and he received a number of important commissions from private clients for both murals and oils, including a series of twenty paintings ordered in 1919 by Temple Gwathmey, the former president of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1923, he created a series of images of Fort Ticonderoga for Stephen H.P. Pell. Eight of these works were reproduced as full-page illustrations in Harper's Magazine. Later he received commissions from Edward Stettinus, a former Secretary of State, and Percy Rockefeller. From the beginning of his career, Owen demonstrated a capacity for tight and precise draftsmanship, which enabled him to find success as an illustrator. Later, when he became influenced by Impressionism, he adopted a vivid palette and painted with loose, vigorous strokes, while continuing to portray forms with a firm sense of reality. His images capture the varying moods of the New England countryside and portray architectural and landscape forms with a truthfulness that has been likened to the poetry of Robert Frost.
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