Background
Joseph DeCamp was born on November 5, 1858 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
Joseph DeCamp was born on November 5, 1858 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
Joseph DeCamp studied with Frank Duveneck in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the second half of the 1870s he went with Duveneck and fellow students to the Royal Academy of Munich. He then spent time in Florence, Italy, returning to Boston in 1883.
Joseph DeCamp was hired to teach at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1895, but resigned after one year because of ill health. From 1903 until his death in 1923, he taught painting at Massachusetts Normal Art School, now Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He also taught painting classes at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Among his pupils was Gertrude Nason.
A 1904 fire in his Boston studio destroyed several hundred of his early paintings, including nearly all of his landscapes.
He died on February 11, 1923 in Boca Grande, Florida, United States.
At Gloucester
The Heliotrope Gown
Woman Drying Her Hair
Portrait in Red and Gold of Miss Pearson
The Blue Mandarin Coat
The Blue Veil
The Pink Feather (The Brown Veil)
Farewell
The Hammock
Seascape
Rev. Daniel Merriman
The Blue Cup
The Music Lesson
Summer in the Country
Mrs. Ernest Major
Portrait of the Artist's Daughter
Edward Tuck
The Violinist (The Violin: Girl with a Violin III)
Theodore Lambert DeCamp as An Infant
Trees Along the Coast (Road to the Sea)
The Pear Orchard
Moorland Path, Cape Ann, Massachusetts
Girl with a Green Shawl
The Steward (Lewis of the Porcellian)
Albert Hayden Chatfield
Sally
A Murky Day
The Window Blind
In the Studio
Roses
Blue Bird
Summer Landscape (Summertime)
Venice (Becalmed)
Pauline
The Kreutzer Sonata (Violinist II)
Portrait of a Lady
Reflections (Arrangement in Pink and Blue)
Miss Alice Boit
The Seamstress
Portrait of the Artist's Wive Edity
September Afternoon
La Penserosa
The Guitar Player
Woman at the Theater (The Listener)
Francesca
The Fur Jacket
Jetty at Low Tide (The Water Pier)
Benjamin Ames Kimball
June Sunlight
Portrait of a Boy (Ted)
The Cellist
Red Comunion (The Red Kimono)
The Little Hotel
In 1891, DeCamp married Edith Franklin Baker (1868-1955). They had four children: Sarah "Sally" (1892-1973), Theodore "Ted" (1894-1955), Lydia (1896-1974), and Pauline. His family members served as models for a number of his paintings.