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About Gustave Cimiotti
Gustave Cimiotti (1875-1969) was born in New York City. In his youth, Gustave was interested in both art and music. While studying both fields, Cimiotti took classes at the Art Students League of New York and private music lessons. Studies at the Julian Academy in Paris convinced Cimiotti to choose art as a career. Back in the States in 1904, Cimiotti took up residence at 51 West 10th Street, in the famous 10th Street Studio Building in New York City, where he worked for over fifty years, in addition to teaching at the Pratt Institute and serving as director of the New Jersey School of Fine and Industrial Arts. A newspaper article published in 1954 described Cimiotti as "one of America's best-known painters." Following Cimiotti’s death, the Phoenix Art Museum held an exhibition of his work.
Cimiotti’s landscapes are characterized by bold brushwork, often stark and simple compositions, and a rich use of color. This landscape has been conceived in broad areas of color in an impressionist manner, yet the central group of trees has a stark silhouette quality that suggests stylized nature, more in a post-impressionist vein. The wide range of values, from lightest light to darkest dark is another non-impressionist element. |
Paintings by Gustave Cimiotti
| The Breeze |
| oil on canvas, 32 x 38 inches |
| signed: lower right |
| date: circa 1926 |
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