Sculptor and painter · American
Attested lodger
Frederick William MacMonnies
An internationally renowned sculptor, he also ran a teaching studio in Normandy.
- Dates1863 — 1937
- NationalityAmerican
- DisciplineSculptor and painter
- Place of birthBrooklyn, New York, United States
Biography
A pupil of Saint-Gaudens and then of the École des beaux-arts in Paris, Frederick William MacMonnies became one of the most commissioned American sculptors of his generation, before also devoting himself to painting.
Giverny
A sculptor before he was a painter, he settled in Giverny in 1898 with Mary Fairchild in the former priory, bought in 1901. In 1905 he opened a summer studio-school there which drew young American artists, making Le Prieuré one of the colony’s two poles, alongside the Hôtel Baudy.
Relation with the Hôtel Baudy
Four entries, always brief: 3 to 6 April 1890, 9 to 13 May 1890, 3 to 6 August 1893, 1 to 5 October 1893. He comes as a neighbour, not as a long-term lodger.
Principal works
Key points
- 1863Born — Brooklyn, New York, United States
- GivernyFrom 1898, resident at Le Prieuré
- 1937Died
Sources
- 01Terra Foundation for American Art, notice d’œuvre « Self-Portrait », inv. 1992.46
- 02The Metropolitan Museum of Art, notice d’œuvre « Madonna of Giverny », inv. 1983.530
- 03The Metropolitan Museum of Art, notice d’œuvre « Bacchante and Infant Faun », inv. 97.19
- 04Hôtel Baudy guest register, “Registre pour inscrire les voyageurs”, Philadelphia Museum of Art; transcribed by Carol Lowrey in William H. Gerdts, Monet’s Giverny, Abbeville Press, 1993, pp. 222-227.
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