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Frederick Carl Frieseke  American  1874 -1939  fl (1874-1939)
Born: Owasso, Michigan, United States 
Active:   France 1898-1939
 Giverny, France 1906
Studied: Art Institute of Chicago 
Art Students League, New York City 
Academie Julien, Paris 
Instructors: Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant 
Jean Pierre Laurens 
James Abbott McNeill Whistler 
Exhibited: Venice Biennale 
Panama-Pacific International Exposition 1915
Examples of Work: Art Institute of Chicago 
Cincinnati Art Museum 
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC 
Los Angeles County Museum of Art 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minnesota 
Musee d'Orsay, Paris 
Museum of Odessa, Soviet Union 
Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia 
Specialty: Painter
Style/School: Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Subjects Known For: Gardens
Interiors
Women
Nudes
Memberships: National Academy of Design p. ANA 1912; NA 1914
Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts 
New York Watercolor Club 
Paris Art Association 
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor 
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Frederick Frieseke was born in 1874. Although he preferred to call himself a self taught artist he did study at the Art Students League, Academie Julian and at the Modern Gallery in Munich. He also studied under Whistler in Pa... (More)

F.C. Frieseke was one of the leading American impressionists. Until the early 1930's, the expatriate's international reputation was such that he was called "America's best known contemporary painter." His relative anonym... (More)

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