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Excerpt from The World's Painters Since Leonardo: Being a History of Painting From the Renaissance to the Present Day Twelve years Older than Masaccio was Jan van Eyck, in Flanders. He traveled somewhat, going as far as Spain but never to Italy. He and his brother did wonderful things, but still in the Gothic manner Formalism cannot altogether kill great talent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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James William Pattison was born on July 14, 1844 in Boston, Massachussets, United States. His father was the Reverend Robert Everett Pattison, who taught in various places and twice (1836 - 1839, 1854 - 1857) held the presidency of Colby College at Waterville, Maine. His mother was Frances Wilson, of a well-known New England family.
At nineteen James William Pattison enlisted in the 57th Massachusetts Volunteers and served until August 1865. He was at Petersburg during the siege and sent from there and elsewhere letters and illustrative drawings to Harper' Weekly, thus beginning his artistic career. After the war he studied art in New York City under James M. Hart, R. Swain Gifford, and George Inness, then he joined his brother, Everett W. Pattison, in St. Louis, where he opened a studio. He also taught drawing (1868 - 1869, 1872 - 1873), at Mary Institute, a school for girls at Washington University. For a time he shared his studio with William M. Chase, who became his lifelong friend.
In St. Louis, Pattison began lecturing on art, and the interest he aroused in this way and through other channels bore fruit in the establishment of the City Museum of Art. From 1873 to 1879 he was in Europe, first at Düsseldorf, where he studied with Albert Flamm, then in Paris, where he worked under Luigi Chialiva. He and his artist wife both exhibited in the Paris Salons of 1879, 1880, and 1881, and their home at Ecouen became a rendezvous for painters, writers, and other interesting persons. On account of the ill health of his wife, Pattison returned to America and after a brief sojourn in New York took up residence in the flat country of Illinois.
From 1884 to 1896 James William Pattison was director of the School of Fine Arts at Jacksonville, Illinois. In the latter year he became faculty lecturer at the Art Institute of Chicago and removed his home and studio to Park Ridge. He was president of the Chicago Society of Artists, and for many years secretary of the Municipal Art League, and a member of the Society of Western Artists, Cliff Dwellers, and National Arts Club. From 1910 to 1914 he edited the Fine Arts Journal of Chicago and for a much longer time contributed weekly "Art Talks" to the Chicago Journal. He was also the author of a book, Painters Since Leonardo (1904). For several years he lectured on the history of art at Rockford College.
His activities as secretary of the Municipal Art League were not only widespread but beneficent. Through his writings in the newspaper, his lectures in schools and clubs in Chicago and other cities of the Middle West, through competitions and the coordination of effort, he was influential in awakening the consciousness of the public to beauty and civic improvement. Believing that the best way to educate people was to show them good things, James William Pattison used extensively stereopticon slides, made from photographs he himself had taken or collected in Europe and America for the purpose. He was a member of the Chicago Plan Commission. His efforts were appreciated keenly by his fellow workers.
At the same time that Pattison was teaching, writing, and lecturing, he was also a productive artist. His paintings were shown at the National Academy of Design and in the annual exhibitions of the American Water Color Society, New York, in the Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, and in the Art Institute of Chicago. One of his best works, a painting entitled Tranquility, is owned by the Municipal Art League of Chicago, which includes also in its permanent collection a portrait of him by Louis Betts. In 1914 because of James William Pattison failing health the family went to North Carolina to live. He died in Asheville onMay 29, 1915.
(Excerpt from Fine Arts Journal, 1910: Devoted to the Fine...)
(Excerpt from The World's Painters Since Leonardo: Being a...)
James William Pattison was tall, slender, and distinguished in appearance, a charming conversationalist, and an able speaker.
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Walter Marshall Clute, said of James William Pattison: "The part he is playing in the cultivation of a better art appreciation and civic pride, in making Chicago a more beautiful place to live in, is no small one, " adding, "Mr. Pattison in the development and exercise of his art has worked in a great variety of mediums, handling with equal facility water color or oils, pencil or crayon or charcoal, even the witchery of the etching needle has not escaped him. "
In 1871, James William Pattison married Elizabeth Abbott Pennell, the daughter of the president of the Institute, Calvin S. Pennell. In Düsseldorf his wife died, and in 1876 Pattison married Helen Searle, a well-known painter of Rochester, New York. In 1905 (his second wife having died) he married Hortense Roberts of Columbia, Tennessee. Two daughters were born of this marriage.
