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The Old Garden, a work by Edmund Greacen
No portrait of the artist has yet entered the collection.

Painter · American

Giverny painter

Edmund Greacen

He lived at Giverny from 1907 to 1909 and met Monet there, at the time of the Water Lilies.

  • Dates1876 — 1949
  • NationalityAmerican
  • DisciplinePainter
  • Place of birthNew York, New York, United States

Biography

Edmund William Greacen was born in New York in 1876. He studied at the Art Students League in 1899, then at the Chase School of Art from 1900 to about 1905. He travelled in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and England in 1905 and 1906, lived in Paris in 1906, then at Giverny from 1907 to 1909. He specialised in garden scenes of Impressionist inspiration. Back in New York from 1909, he spent his summers at Old Lyme, Connecticut, from 1910 to 1917. He was a founding member of the Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association in 1922, then of the Grand Central School of Art in 1923. He worked in Florida in the mid-1940s and died at White Plains, New York, in 1949.

Giverny

He lived in the village from 1907 to 1909, in the years when the second American generation settled there. It was there that he took the garden as his subject — the motif that made his reputation and that he carried back to Old Lyme. He exhibited with the “Giverny Group” in New York in 1910.

Principal works

The Old Garden oil on canvas, about 1912, signed at lower right. An overgrown garden: orange lilies, blue delphiniums, tall grasses, and two dark trunks beyond in the green light. Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, inv. 1974.1, gift of Mrs Edmund Greacen Jr.

Key points

  • 1876Born — New York, New York, United States
  • Giverny1907 — 1909, resident
  • 1949Died

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