Guy Rose was an American artist of the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th centuries who represented the California School of Impressionism. He painted both figures and landscapes.
Background
Guy Rose was born on March 3, 1867, in San Gabriel, California, United States. He was the seventh child in a prosperous family of a notable California senator Leonard John Rose and his wife Amanda Jones.
Guy was raised on the family ranch and vineyard in Rosemead town in the San Gabriel Valley of California.
At the age of nine, Rose assisted his brothers on a hunting trip was shot by accident in the face. After recovering, he started to sketch and experiment with watercolors and oil colorings.
Education
Guy Rose received the general education at a Los Angeles High School which he finished in 1884. Then next year he came to San Francisco and enrolled at the California School of Design (currently San Francisco Art Institute) where he was taught by Virgil Williams, Warren E. Rollins and Emil Carlsen.
In the autumn of 1888, Guy Rose went to Paris where he pursued his training at the Académie Julian (Julian Academy) where he studied under Benjamin-Constant, Jules Lefebvre, Lucien Doucet and Jean-Paul Laurens. While at the institution, Rose met Frederick Melville and Frank Vincent. The latter became his close friend.
The next year, Rose received a scholarship which allowed him to study at the Académie Delacluse.
Guy Rose started his career in the 1890s in New York City where he worked as an illustrator for several magazines, such as Harper's, Scribners, and Century. He also gave lessons on drawing and portrait painting.
After lead poisoning the artist suffered in 1894, he stopped to paint for a while and resumed his activity when his health state stabilized.
In 1899, Guy Rose came with his wife to France where the couple settled in Giverny commune. The artist opened a studio there. A year later, the Roses relocated to Paris keeping the Giverny studio. The following years, the artist traveled a lot and visited Briska, Algeria. The trips resulted with sketches and some number of paintings.
Guy Rose returned to Giverny in 1904. While there, the Roses joined small American art colony and enlarged the circle of their artistic acquaintances by Richard Miller, Lawton Parker, Alson S. Clark and Frederick Frieseke. In 1910 Rose participated at the exhibition of the Giverny Group in New York City.
In a couple of years, the Roses came back to the United States and established an art school in Narragansett, Rhode Island. They spent two years in the city and then relocated permanently to Los Angeles. While in the city, Rose took an active part at the life of the local art community. He served as a board member of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art and presided the Stickney Memorial School of Fine Arts in Pasadena for several years.
From 1918 to 1920, the artist lived, worked in Carmel-by-the-Sea. He exhibited his artworks at the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club. So, he participated at its annual shows called Thirteenth and Fourteenth Annual Exhibitions in 1919 and 1920. A year later, a couple of his canvases demonstrated at the Hotel Del Monte Art Gallery in Monterey received good reviews from art critics.