Charles Courtney Curran

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Charles Courtney Curran
Curran, ca. 1909
Born 1861
Hartford, Kentucky
Died 1942
Nationality American
Field Painting
Training National Academy of Design, Académie Julian
Influenced by Benjamin Constant, Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Henri Lucien Doucet

Charles Courtney Curran (1861 – 1942) was an American painter.

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A detail of Curran's 1887 painting Fair Critics

Curran was born in Hartford, Kentucky in 1861 and moved to Sandusky, Ohio in 1881. He studied one year at the Cincinnati School of Design, and began a brilliant career after moving to New York City in 1882 where he enrolled in the National Academy of Design. He went on to study at the Académie Julian in Paris and was a student of Benjamin Constant, Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Henri Lucien Doucet. Curran himself would become a teacher at the Pratt Institute, New York City, the Cooper Union and the National Academy. [1]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ [1] Curran at Artnet. Retrieved Sep. 26, 2007
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