Charles P. Gruppe (1860-1940)

Charles P. Gruppe (1860-1940)

       Born in the village of Picton in Ontario, Canada, Charles Paul Gruppe moved with his family to Rochester, New York, around 1870, and showed an interest in art at an early age. Primarily self-taught, he had an affinity for exploring the rural landscape and working directly from nature, qualities that followed him as he traveled to Holland in 1890 to study the Dutch Masters. Gruppe exhibited at venues throughout Europe, including the Glass Palace in Munich, the Salon of Brussels, and the Paris Salon, which awarded him two gold medals. While he returned to Rochester in the mid-1890s, during which time his son, the famed Cape Ann painter Emile Gruppe (1896-1978) was born, the family returned to Holland for several more years until the outbreak of World War I.
      He exhibited with the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Boston Art Club, and won prizes at the American Art Society of Philadelphia in 1902, at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, at the Appalachian Exposition in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1910, and at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1917. Today, examples of his work can be found in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.

 

 

 

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