Biografie von Gaines Ruger DONOHO (1857-1916)

Birth place: Church Hill, MS

Addresses: Wash., DC; NYC; East Hampton, 1891

Profession: Landscape painter

Studied: ASL; R.S. Gifford, NY; Académie Julian, Paris with Lefebvre, Boulanger, Bougeureau, and T. Robert-Fleury, 1881-82

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1881-87, 1890 (prize); PAFA, 1882-1912 (4 annuals); NAD, 1882-88; Paris Expo, 1889 (med.); AIC, 1890, 1902, 1911; SAA, 1892 (prize); Columbian Expo., Chicago, 1893 (med.); CI, 1911 (prize); Corcoran Gal, 1912, 1916; Armory Show, 1913; Pan.-Pac. Expo, San Fran., 1915 (gold).

Member: Lotos Cl.; Players Cl.

Work: His best known work, La Marcellerie," is at Brooklyn Inst. Mus."

Comments: Best known for his sun-filled garden scenes and nocturne views of East Hampton. Also appears as Ruger-Donoho.

Sources: WW15; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 338; Pisano, The Long Island Landscape, n.p.; Brown, The Story of the Armory Show.

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