Birge Harrison

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Birge Harrison was an American painter and influential art teacher known for his atmospheric landscape paintings that helped define the Tonalist movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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instanceOf Tonalist painter
art teacher
human
landscape painter
painter
activeYearsEnd 1920s
activeYearsStart 1870s
artisticStyle Tonalism
atmospheric landscape
awardReceived First Hallgarten Prize
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1854-01-28
dateOfDeath 1929-06-07
educatedAt Académie Julian
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
employer Art Students League of New York
fieldOfWork art education
painting
genre landscape painting
tonalist landscape
influenced American Tonalist landscape painting
students at Woodstock art colony
influencedBy French Barbizon school
linked to: Barbizon school

James McNeill Whistler
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf National Academy of Design
movement Tonalism
nativeLanguage English
notableFor atmospheric landscape paintings
notableWork Moonrise
November
Snowbound
The Rainbow
Winter Twilight
occupation art teacher
painter
placeOfBirth Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
linked to: Philadelphia
placeOfDeath Woodstock, New York, United States
linked to: Woodstock, New York
residence New York City, New York, United States
linked to: New York City

Woodstock, New York, United States
linked to: Woodstock, New York
sexOrGender male
spouse Eleanor Marron Harrison
studiedIn Paris, France
linked to: Paris
taught Tonalist techniques
landscape painting
taughtAt Art Students League of New York
Woodstock art colony
wrote Landscape Painting

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Tonalism hasNotableArtist Birge Harrison