Lathrop Artists
Clara Wells Lathrop (1853-1907)
Dorothy Pulis Lathrop (1891-1981)
Francis Augustus Lathrop (1849-1909)
Gertrude Katherine Lathrop (1896-1986)
Ida Pulis Lathrop (1859-1937)
Jeanne M Lathrop
Michael Lathrop
Sobrina Lathrop
William Langson Lathrop (1859-1938)
George Edwin Lothrop (1867-1939)
Gertrude Fay Lothrop (1889- )
Dorothy Pulis Lathrop (1891-1981)
Francis Augustus Lathrop (1849-1909)
Gertrude Katherine Lathrop (1896-1986)
Ida Pulis Lathrop (1859-1937)
Jeanne M Lathrop
Michael Lathrop
Sobrina Lathrop
William Langson Lathrop (1859-1938)
George Edwin Lothrop (1867-1939)
Gertrude Fay Lothrop (1889- )
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Founder of the New Hope Pennsylvania Impressionist Colony, he was known as one of America's premier landscape painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His style was Tonalist, which coincided with Impressionism but was not plein air nor focused on light, sunny colors. He was not innovative in style, but much admired for the strength and skillfully conveyed mood of his canvases. He avoided formula painting because he wanted to keep his work alive and spontaneous.
He was born in Painesville, Ohio near Cleveland where he was raised on a farm, and his father was a doctor and his mother was Irish and a lover of the arts. As a boy, he did much carving from the local clay and bought his first paint at age twelve. He sent drawings and sketches to New York City editors, and received an art department job offer from Charles Parsons, editor of Harper and Brothers publishing. Parsons subsequently advised Lathrop to go back to the landscape he loved and not corrupt his natural instincts for painting with art school training.
However, he turned to etching and returned to New York where he worked for The Photoengraving Company. There he met Henry Snell, who was to become his life-long friend. New York art dealer C Klackner exhibited his landscape painting, and although Lathrop never took formal training he learned from many artists, most especially John Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, and Henry Ward Ranger. He also painted with William Merritt Chase.
In 1888, he married Annie Burt, but he failed to make much of a living for her and their two children, so J. Alden Weir helped supported them by letting them live on his property. Then Lathrop moved his family back to Painesville where he tried unsuccessfully for five years to farm.
Deciding to try one more time in New York City, he entered the annual exhibition of the American Watercolor Society and won the top honor, the Evans Prize. Suddenly there was a market for his work, and because of a friend from Painesville who had settled in New Hope, Lathrop and his family from 1899 lived there at Phillips Mill on the Delaware River about forty miles north of Philadelphia. For thirty years, he had a successful career, and his home became the center of the growing art colony, which attracted many luminaries including Henry Snell and Daniel Garber. Lathrop was the unofficial father figure, and his wife the leader of the social life.
Lathrop built a boat called the Widge from which he painted marine scenes, sailing up and down the Mid-Atlantic seaboard. A companion on one of these trips was Albert Einstein, who was teaching at Princeton. In 1938, Lathrop perished in a hurricane off Montauk, Long Island where he had anchored his boat to escape the storm.
Dorothy Lathrop
Born in Albany, New York, she was the daughter of artist Ida lathrop and sister of sculptor Gertrude. She studied at the Art Student's League in New York, with Arthur Dow at Columbia University, and Henry McCarter at the Pennsylvania Academy. Her specialty became animal illustration with woodblock carving and printing. She wrote and illustrated many children's books. She spent hours with animals that she illustrated, learning to love their distinct characteristics. She also did some impressionist landscapes. In 1949, she was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design.
Source: Paul Sternberg, "Art by American Women"
Gertrude Lathrop
With a specialty in animal sculpture, especially young creatures, she later turned this talent into a distinguished career as a medallic animal portraitist. She was especially amused by Pekinese dogs that she raised and by the fact that she could find them beautiful even though they appeared homely.
She was a student at the Art Students League in New York City, at Solon Borglum's School of American Sculpture and with Charles Grafly.
Ida Lathrop
Born in Troy, New York, she was a self-taught artist who became extremely successful. She settled in Albany, New York, and her daughters, Dorothy and Gertrude, also became renowned artists. From 1904 to 1931, Ida exhibited at the National Academy of Design , and she also exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute and the Albany Institute of History and Art. In 1926, she became a member of the National Association of Women Artists.
Source:
Paul Sternberg, Sr., "Art by American Women"
Michael Lathrop
Painting with feelings of optimism and romanticism, Michael Lathrop paints the landscape from his inner being and the result are paintings resembling the style of Vincent Van Gogh. He is also much inspired by the work of Albert Pinkham Ryder, Marsden Hartley, and Charles Burchfield.
He was born in and lived in Burlington and Pittsford, Vermont as a child and Corpus Christi, Texas as an adult, and his work reflects elements of both environments. He married, went to business school and worked for an electric company trimming trees. On this job, he was looking over Matagorda Bay in the Gulf of Mexico and fell forty feet out of a cherry picker, sustaining severe injuries. After his recovery, he began art lessons with Bruno Andrade, who was teaching art at Texas A & M University in Corpus Christi. Lathrop went on the get an MFA in painting from Syracuse University in New York.
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