Amédée Joullin (3 June 1862, in

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– 3 February 1917, in San Francisco) was a

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painter whose work centered on the landscapes of California and on Native Americans.

Biography

He was born in San Francisco to French parents.David Karel, ''Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord''. Les Presses de l'Université Laval. 1992.p. 422. He studied painting at the

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and then with the painter Jules Tavernier. In 1884, while in Paris, he became impoverished. After returning to the United States in 1886, he was named a professor of painting and design at the San Francisco School of Design, where he stayed for ten years. From 1892 on, he specialized in

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motifs and traveled to Mexico and

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to paint. He created the painting called ''Driving The Golden Spike'' on the southern arch of the rotunda of the Montana State Capitol.Kirby Lambert, Patricia Burnham, Susan Near, ''Montana's State Capitol: The People's House''. Montana Historical Society Press. 2002. p. 50. For his services, he was paid a sum of $500. From 1900 through 1905, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and attended the

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. On May 25, 1907, he married the artist Lucille Wilcox in New York. He died at his home in San Francisco. His works were collected by several museums in the United States, including the

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of San Francisco, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.Californiaart.com
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Exhibitions

* ''Trans-Mississippi and international exposition''. Omaha. 1898. * ''First Annual Painters Salon''. San Francisco. 1901. * ''Union League Club''. New York. 1901. * ''South Carolina Interstate Exposition''. Charleston. 1902. * ''Helgesen gallery''. San Francisco. 1910. * ''Panama-Pacific International Exposition''. San Francisco. 1915. * ''Palace of Fine Arts''. San Francisco. 1916. * ''M.H. de Young Memorial Museum'' of San Francisco.

Museum collections

* ''Ball State University Museum of Art''. Muncie. * ''

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Notes

References

* Gene Hailey, ''California art research'', Volumes 4 à 6. California Art Research Project. 1937. * Kirby Lambert, Patricia Burnham, Susan Near, ''Montana's State Capitol: The People's House''. Montana Historical Society Press. 2002. * Claudine Chalmers, ''French San Francisco''. Arcadia Publishing. 2007. * David Karel, ''Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord''. Les Presses de l'Université Laval. 1992.

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