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Frank Vincent DuMond (August 20, 1865 – February 6, 1951) was one of the most influential teacher-painters in 20th-century America. He was an illustrator and
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painter of portraits and landscapes, and a prominent teacher who instructed thousands of art students throughout a career spanning over fifty years.


Early life and education

Frank Vincent DuMond was born on August 20, 1865, in
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, to Elisabeth and Alonzo DuMond, partner/owner of an ornamental iron works manufacturer. They also had a younger son, Frederick Melville DuMond (1867 - 1927). Frank DuMond was interested in drawing from a young age, and was involved in the local art scene in the early 1880s. He got a job creating illustrations for a sign painting business.''Archives of American Art Journal'', p. 26. After graduating from a Rochester public school, DuMond moved to New York City in 1884. From 1884 to 1888, he attended the
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, studying under Carroll Beckwith and William Sartain. DuMond financed his art education by taking a job creating illustrations for New York's ''
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'' newspaper. As a result of his fine work there, he was offered a job at ''
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''. He also later did work for such magazines as ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. He moved to Paris to continue his studies, as did his brother Frederick. From 1888 or 1889 to 1891, Frank DuMond attended the
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, where his instructors included
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,
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, and Gustav Boulanger. He attained recognition in 1890 when a painting of his, ''Holy Family'', exhibited at the
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, was awarded a prestigious medal. His early work was in the
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style, then in Paris he was influenced by the Barbizon school, later becoming an
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. In 1895 he married artist Helen Lydia Savier of Portland, Oregon. They spent five years painting in France, where he also held summer classes for the Art Students League, painting landscapes outdoors from dawn until sunset. In 1900 he was elected into the
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, and became a full Academician in 1906.


Work

DuMond exhibited at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, the
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in Chicago, the
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in Buffalo, and the
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. He served as director of fine arts at the
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in Portland in 1905, and he helped organize the first exhibition at the Portland Art Museum that year. For the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, he prepared two huge murals, 12 feet high by 47 feet long, which now hang in the
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. The editor of ''Harper's'', who was also president of the Art Students League of New York, convinced him to take a job teaching at the League. He still performed illustration work for a while in addition to teaching, including the artwork for
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's ''
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''. In a teaching career spanning more than fifty years, DuMond taught thousands of artists at the
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. His students included
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, Frank J. Reilly,
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, Louis Bouché,
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, Helen Winslow Durkee, Arthur Maynard and Rosina Cox Boardman. DuMond developed a Prismatic Palette, used especially for landscapes. His students were taught to see a progression of prismatic light in pre-mixed paints placed in a tonal progression flowing from yellow to violet on the warm side and from yellow to green to blue green to violet on the cool side. A student quoted DuMond, "Silently glowing over this whole landscape is a rainbow. You must learn to see it. It is there always." Variations of the Prismatic Palette are still used by many artists and teachers and by schools, including the Ridgewood Art Institute in New Jersey. DuMond was a member of the Old Lyme Art Colony in
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, where he lived in a neighborhood called Grassy Hill. For several years he headed the Art Students League's Lyme Summer School of Art, where he also taught outdoors, as he had in France. After the school moved to Woodstock, NY, DuMond continued to give private classes in Old Lyme. DuMond died in New York City on February 6, 1951, at the age of 85.


Collections

DuMond's work is in the permanent collections of the following institutions:Unless otherwise noted, reference for collections is: *
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Delaware Art Museum The Delaware Art Museum is an art museum located on the Kentmere Parkway in Wilmington, Delaware, which holds a collection of more than 12,000 objects. The museum was founded in 1912 as the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts in honor of the arti ...
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Florence Griswold Museum The Florence Griswold Museum is an art museum at 96 Lyme Street in Old Lyme, Connecticut centered on the home of Florence Griswold (1850–1937), which was the center of the Old Lyme Art Colony, a main nexus of American Impressionism. The museu ...
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Lyman Allyn Art Museum The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is located in New London, Connecticut, and was founded in 1926 by Lyman Allyn's daughter Harriet Upson Allyn.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:DuMond, Frank 1865 births 1951 deaths 19th-century American painters 20th-century American painters American illustrators American Impressionist painters American male painters American art educators Art Students League of New York faculty Art Students League of New York alumni Académie Julian alumni Artists from Rochester, New York People from Briarcliff Manor, New York 19th-century American male artists 20th-century American male artists Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters