Painter · American
Attested lodger
Guy Rose
The Californian of Giverny: a house and garden next to Monet’s, until lead poisoning forced him to give up oils.
- Dates1867 — 1925
- NationalityAmerican
- DisciplinePainter
- Place of birthSan Gabriel, California, United States
Biography
Born on 3 March 1867 in San Gabriel, California, Guy Rose studied at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1885 to 1888, then enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris on 12 September 1888, under Benjamin-Constant and Jules Lefebvre. He suffered repeated bouts of lead poisoning, which eventually forced him to give up oil painting and turn to illustration; he returned permanently to Los Angeles in 1914 and died in Pasadena on 17 November 1925.
Giverny
His presence in Giverny predates his settling there: the Terra Foundation for American Art dates Giverny Hillside to about 1890–1891, shortly after he enrolled at the Académie Julian. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art then places his move in 1904, “to a house and garden near those of Claude Monet”; it was there that his Impressionist manner took shape, and the musée des impressionnismes Giverny counts him among the colony’s long-term residents. By his maturity he belongs to the post-1900 generation, that of Frieseke and Miller, but he had seen the village long before it.
Relation with the Hôtel Baudy
Three entries. From 4 July 1890 to 27 January 1891, “Rose Guy et le famille”, nearly seven months. From 6 May to 1 July 1891, alone, aged twenty-three. And on 24 May 1899, “M. et Mme. Rose Guy” — he comes back married.
Principal works
Key points
- 1867Born — San Gabriel, California, United States
- GivernyAbout 1890–1891, then from 1904
- 1925Died
Sources
- 01Terra Foundation for American Art, « Giverny Hillside »
- 02Los Angeles County Museum of Art, notice Guy Rose
- 03Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, « La colonie américaine à Giverny »
- 04Crocker Art Museum, exposition « Guy Rose: Impressionist »
- 05Hôtel 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.
From the register
Under the same roof
The painters whose stay overlaps this one. The register establishes that they lodged in the house on the same days, and nothing more.
- Dawson Dawson-Watson 208 days from July 4, 1890 to January 27, 1891
- Theodore Robinson 123 days from July 4, 1890 to November 3, 1890 · 2 shared stays
- Ernest Clifford Peixotto 54 days from August 28, 1890 to October 20, 1890
- Lilla Cabot Perry 7 days from June 13, 1891 to June 19, 1891
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