Amédée Joullin

Amédée Joullin (1862–1917) was a French American painter whose work centered on the landscapes of California and on Native Americans.[1]

Biography

Driving The Golden Spike in the Montana State Capitol

Joullin was born on June 13, 1862, in San Francisco to French parents.[2] He studied painting at the Art School of San Francisco and then with painter Jules Tavernier. In 1884, while in Paris, he became impoverished. After returning to the United States in 1886, he was named a professor of painting and design at the San Francisco School of Design, where he stayed for ten years. From 1892 on, he specialized in the Amerindian motifs and traveled to Mexico and New Mexico to paint.

He created the painting called Driving The Golden Spike on the southern arch of the rotunda of the Montana State Capitol.[3] For his services Joullin was paid a sum of $500.

From 1900 through 1905, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris[4] and attended the Académie Julian.[5][6][7] On May 25, 1907 he married the artist Lucille Wilcox Joullinin New York.[8] Joullin died at his home in San Francisco on February 3, 1917.[9] His works were treasured by several museums in the United States, including M.H. De Young Memorial Museum of San Francisco, and Crocker museum in Sacramento.[10]

Exhibitions

Museum collections

Notes

  1. Benezit Dictionary of Artists
  2. David Karel, Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord. Les Presses de l'Université Laval. 1992.p. 422.
  3. Kirby Lambert,Patricia Burnham, Susan Near, Montana's State Capitol: The People's House. Montana Historical Society Press. 2002. p. 50.
  4. Kirby Lambert,Patricia Burnham, Susan Near, Montana's State Capitol: The People's House. Montana Historical Society Press. 2002. p. 50.
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  6. christopherqueengallery.com
  7. Annick Foucrier. Le rêve californien: migrants français sur la côte Pacifique, XVIIIe-XXe siècles.Belin. 1999.p. 275.
  8. David Karel, Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord. Les Presses de l'Université Laval. 1992.p. 422.
  9. Levy, Florence Nightingale (1917). American Art Directory, Volume 14. The American Federation of the Arts. p. 324.
  10. Californiaart.com

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