Amédée Joullin

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Amedee Joullin
(before 1900) Amedee Joullin.jpg
Amédée Joullin
(before 1900)
Navajo Woman with Basket and Olla Joullin-Navajo.jpg
Navajo Woman with Basket and Olla
Driving the Golden Spike, oil on canvas, 1903. Montana State Capitol, Helena, Montana. Commemorates the "golden spike" driven at Gold Creek, Montana in 1883 Driving the Golden Spike 01.jpg
Driving the Golden Spike, oil on canvas, 1903. Montana State Capitol, Helena, Montana. Commemorates the “golden spike” driven at Gold Creek, Montana in 1883
The Gardens at Mission Santa Barbara Joullin-Mission.jpg
The Gardens at Mission Santa Barbara

Amédée Joullin (3 June 1862, in San Francisco – 3 February 1917, in San Francisco) was a French American painter whose work centered on the landscapes of California and on Native Americans. [1]

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Biography

He was born in San Francisco to French parents. [2] He studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and then with the painter Jules Tavernier. In 1884, while in Paris, he became impoverished. After returning to the United States in 1886, he was named a professor of painting and design at the San Francisco School of Design, where he stayed for ten years. From 1892 on, he specialized in Amerindian motifs and traveled to Mexico and New Mexico to paint.

He created the painting called Driving The Golden Spike on the southern arch of the rotunda of the Montana State Capitol. [3] For his services, he was paid a sum of $500.

From 1900 through 1905, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris [3] and attended the Académie Julian. [4] [5] [6] On May 25, 1907, he married the artist Lucille Wilcox in New York. [2] He died at his home in San Francisco. [7] His works were collected by several museums in the United States, including the De Young Museum of San Francisco, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. [8]

Exhibitions

Museum collections

Notes

  1. Benezit Dictionary of Artists
  2. 1 2 David Karel, Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord. Les Presses de l'Université Laval. 1992.p. 422.
  3. 1 2 Kirby Lambert, Patricia Burnham, Susan Near, Montana's State Capitol: The People's House. Montana Historical Society Press. 2002. p. 50.
  4. tfaoi
  5. christopherqueengallery.com
  6. Annick Foucrier. Le rêve californien: migrants français sur la côte Pacifique, XVIIIe-XXe siècles.Belin. 1999.p. 275.
  7. Levy, Florence Nightingale (1917). American Art Directory, Volume 14. The American Federation of the Arts. p. 324.
  8. Californiaart.com

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