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The Bos ton School Tradi t ion TRUTH, BEAUTY AND TIMELESS CRAFT June 6 – July 18, 2015 At the turn of the nineteenth century, Boston was home to the most celebrated artists in America. After being the first American city to embrace the French Barbizon style in the 1870s and 1880s, Boston’s artists continued their quest for new styles of painting, yet based their foundation on the rig- orous training and the subject matter of the Dutch Masters and other Renais- sance painters. Leading contemporary artists of the day—New England’s Winslow Homer and expatriates John Singer Sargent and James M. Whistler—added their own admired styles to the Boston School’s amalgam. Those Boston artists who traveled to France, and most did, brought back the teachings of Monet and introduced impressionism to the public and to their protégés who studied at Boston’s constellation of leading art schools. The Boston School Tradition includes over sixty fine examples by the lead- ing teachers of the Boston School and a selection of their students, includ- ing a collection of rare canvasses by Joseph DeCamp, one of the earliest teachers. The exhibition is accompanied by a fifty page catalogue with an essay by Trevor Fairbrother, author of The Bostonians, Painters of an Elegant Age, 1870-1930. Fine American Art for Six Generations V O S E 1841 EST G A L L E R I E S LLC 238 Newbury Street . Boston . MA . 02116 . Telephone 617.536.6176 . Toll Free 866.862.4871 info@vosegalleries.com . w ww.vosegalleries.com Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (1858-1923), The Kreutzer Sonata (The Violinist II) Oil on canvas, 48 1/4 x 40 1/4 inches, signed and dated lower left: Joseph DeCamp 1912