Samuel Colman
Painting, Visual Artist
1832 – 1920
Who was Samuel Colman?
Samuel Colman was an American painter, interior designer, and writer, probably best remembered for his paintings of the Hudson River.
Born in Portland, Maine, Colman moved to New York City with his family as a child. His father opened a bookstore, attracting a literate clientele that may have influenced Colman's artistic development. He is believed to have studied briefly under the Hudson River school painter Asher Durand, and he exhibited his first work at the National Academy of Design in 1850. By 1854 he had opened his own New York City studio. The following year he was elected an associate member of the National Academy, with full membership bestowed in 1862.
His landscape paintings in the 1850s and 1860s were influenced by the Hudson River school, an example being Meadows and Wildflowers at Conway now in the collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. He was also able to paint in a romantic style, which had become more fashionable after the Civil War. One of his best-known works, and one of the iconic images of Hudson River School art, is his Storm King on the Hudson, now in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.
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- Born
- Mar 4, 1832
Portland - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- National Academy of Design
- Lived in
- Maine
- Portland
- Died
- Mar 26, 1920
New York City
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on July 23, 2013
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