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About William Starkweather
Leaving the United States in 1899, he enrolled at the Academie Colarossi in Paris and there discovered the painting of Joaquin Sorolla at the Universal Exposition. In 1901, he returned to the United States and taught at the St. George's School for Boys in New York and did illustrations for popular novels.
In 1904, he went to Spain and found Sorolla who influenced Starkweather's fascination with dappled light and the effects of shadow. Sorolla told him to learn directly from nature and to have the drawing skills of Old Masters and the color of the Impressionists.
In 1909, Sorolla introduced Starkweather to Archer Huntington and for the next seven years he was assistant curator of paintings at the Hispanic Society in New York. |
Paintings by William Starkweather
| Rain on the Window |
| oil on canvas: 18 x 24 inches |
| signed: lower left |
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