Guy Rose
Impressionist
Impressionist
Guy Rose’s association with French artist Claude Monet and other artists working in Giverny, France, influenced his use of color, light, and painterly touch, making his style the most “French” of the California Impressionists. This exhibition, the largest on Rose to date, includes some 85 still life, figure, and landscape paintings, along with additional drawings, as well as works by his wife, Ethel Rose. Born in San Gabriel, California, Guy Rose (1867–1925) trained in San Francisco and Paris. He gained extensive exposure to Impressionism in the early 1890s in Giverny, though he subsequently returned to the United States to work as an illustrator and to paint and exhibit his work.
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Later that decade, lead poisoning required him to give up oil painting, after which he turned to illustration with Ethel. Working from their cottage in Giverny, the couple became “the best living fashion artists” in the world. They returned to the United States in 1912 and two years later settled in Alhambra in Southern California. From there and then from Pasadena, Rose traveled to picturesque locales and coastal communities like Laguna Beach, La Jolla, and, ultimately, Carmel-by-the-Sea to paint plein air scenes that captured California’s crystalline light, atmosphere, trees, and foliage.