Edmund Greacen
Edmund Greacen (1877 – 1949) was an American Impressionist painter.
He was born in New York City, New York. He graduated from New York University. After traveling around the world he entered the Art Students League of New York. He also took classes at the New York School of Art, where he studied with William Merritt Chase. He traveled to Spain with the Chase class in 1905, and then went on to study in the Netherlands, Belgium, and England. In the summer of 1907 he and his family settled in Giverny, France. He did not return to the United States until 1909. Upon his return to the United States and he became a member of the colony of American Impressionists at Old Lyme, Connecticut. Between 1910 and 1917, he maintained a studio in New York City.
In 1922, he, John Singer Sargent and Walter Leighton Clark established the Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, an artists' cooperative, together with other artists and businessmen. The association founded the Grand Central Art Galleries the same year and the Grand Central School of Art in 1923[1]. Greacen moved to Florida after the art school closed in 1944.
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- ^ Staff report (November 23, 1924). 400 ENROLL IN 6 WEEKS.; Grand Central School of Art Announces List of Instructors. New York Times
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