Biografie von William CHADWICK (1879-1962)

Birth place: Dewsbury, England

Death place: Old Lyme, CT

Addresses: Old Lyme, CT/Black Hall, CT

Profession: Landscape painter

Studied: ASL, 1898-1903, with Twachtman, H. Siddons Mowbray, George Bridgman, Kenyon Cox, Joseph DeCamp

Exhibited: Soc. Am. Artists, 1903; PAFA, 1908, 1911, 1916-24 (4 times); NAD, 1907-28; Corcoran Gal, 1907-08, 1916; AIC; Lyme Art Assoc., annually; Telfair Acad, Savannah, GA, 1927 (first solo show); Wilmington (DE.) Soc. FA, 1927 (solo); Lyme AA, 1962 (memorial exhib.); Lyme Hist. Soc., 1978 (retrospective); Florence Griswold Mus., Old Lyme, CT, 1994 (retrospective)

Member: SC

Work: Florence Griswold Mus., Old Lyme, CT; Lyme Hist. Soc.; Lyman Allyn Mus., New London, CT; NMAA

Comments: His family came to the U.S. in 1884. An American Impressionist, he was a member of the Old Lyme art colony, where he painted with Childe Hassam, Charles Ebert, and Chauncey Ryder. He visited Europe several times and painted in Bermuda in the early 1920s; also painted on Monhegan Island, ME. He taught at Savannah Art School, winters, 1924-26. In 1994, his studio was reconstructed on the grounds of the Florence Griswold Mus., Old Lyme, CT.

Sources: WW27; Richard Love, William Chadwick, 1879-1962: An American Impressionist, Chicago: R.H. Love Galleries, Inc., 1978; Curtis, Curtis, and Lieberman, 163, 181; Connecticut and American Impressionism 155-56 (w/repro.); Art in Conn.: The Impressionist Years.