Daniel Garber (April 11, 1880 – July 5, 1958) was an American Impressionist

landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compo ...

and member of the

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New Hope, Pennsylvania New Hope is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The population was 2,612 at the 2020 census. New Hope is located approximately north of Philadelphia, and lies on the west bank of the Delaware River at its confluence with Aquetong Creek. ...

. He is best known today for his large

impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passag ...

scenes of the New Hope area, in which he often depicted the Delaware River. He also painted figurative interior works and excelled at

etching Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other type ...

. In addition to his painting career, Garber taught art at the

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and Private university, private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

for over forty years.

Life

Garber was born on April 11, 1880, in

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. He studied art at the

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, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in

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from 1899 to 1905. During this time Garber met and married his wife, Mary Franklin, who was also an art student. In the tradition of many American artists, Garber and his wife traveled to Europe to complete his art education. Returning to America in 1907, on the advice of artist William Langson Lathrop he settled at

Cuttalossa Cuttalossa is an unincorporated hamlet in Solebury Township, just downriver from Lumberville, Pennsylvania. It sits at the confluence of a creek that runs through an unusually beautiful small valley and that feeds into the Delaware Division of the ...

(

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) just downriver from Lumberville, Pennsylvania, six miles up the Delaware River from New Hope. Like most impressionist painters, Garber painted landscapes ''

en plein air ''En plein air'' (; French for 'outdoors'), or ''plein air'' painting, is the act of painting outdoors. This method contrasts with studio painting or academic rules that might create a predetermined look. The theory of 'En plein air' painting ...

'', directly from nature. He exhibited his works nationwide and earned numerous awards, including a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for "Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

. He was elected a member of the

National Academy of Design The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the f ...

in 1913. Garber died on July 5, 1958, after falling from a ladder at his studio. Today, Garber's paintings are considered by collectors and art historians to be among the finest works produced from the New Hope art colony. His paintings are owned by major museums including the

Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds ...

in Washington, DC, the

Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 mil ...

and

Philadelphia Museum of Art The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin F ...

. One of Garber's students was artist Delle Miller.

References

External links

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Daniel Garber Biography: Hollis Taggart Galleries

Daniel Garber Catalogue Raisonné

Six exhibition catalogs
available from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries.
''American impressionism and realism : a landmark exhibition from the Met''
a 1991 exhibition catalog from the Metropolitan Museum of Art libraries
Works at the Museum Syndicate
1880 births 1958 deaths 20th-century American painters American male painters American Impressionist painters American landscape painters Artists from Philadelphia Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts faculty Artists from Indiana People from North Manchester, Indiana Moore College of Art and Design faculty People from New Hope, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Impressionism Art Academy of Cincinnati alumni 20th-century American male artists Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters {{US-painter-1880s-stub

Life

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