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Joseph Decker  American  1853 -1924
Born:  Wurtemberg, Germany 
Active: Reading, Pennsylvania, United States 
Brooklyn, New York, United States 
Studied: National Academy of Design 
Royal Academy, Munich 1879
Instructors: Wilhelm von Lindenschmit 
Exhibited: Brooklyn Art Association 1877
National Academy of Design 
Examples of Work: Yale University Art Gallery 
Specialty: Painter
Sign Painter
Style/School: Modernism
Impressionism
Subjects Known For: Still lifes
Genre
Landscapes
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BIOGRAPHY:
Joseph Decker was born in 1853 and came to the U.S. in 1867. He apprenticed with a house painter before going to the National Academy of Design, and later studying in Munich. Decker was a still-life specialist, focused particularly on fruit. His work falls into two distinct categories; the 1880... (More)

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