Curran In The Garden of Luxembourg Painting by Paul Meijering

Realistic acrylic painting of the American Impressionist painter Charles Courtney Curran (New York, 13 February 1861 - there, 9 November 1942), best known for his canvases featuring women in various settings, painted by the Dutch fine artist Paul Meijering - the original painting is 90 x 120 cm and part of a permanent collection.

Curran was born in February 1861 in Hartford, Kentucky, where his father taught school. A few months later, after the start of the Civil War, the family left there and returned to Ohio, eventually settling in Sandusky on the shores of Lake Erie.

Charles Curran showed an early interest and aptitude for art and went to Cincinnati to study in 1881. He stayed there for only a year before going to New York to study at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. Many of the paintings he produced during this period depicted young, attractive working-class women engaged in various tasks.

One was particularly notable: Breezy Day and won the NAD's Third Hallgarten Prize for Oils in 1888. Shortly afterwards, Curran and his young bride Grace left the United States to study in Paris, where their first child Louis was born.

After two and a half years abroad, the young family returned to the United States in June 1891. For the next decade, Curran divided his time between New York, where the couple had a flat and Curran maintained a studio, and Ohio, where they had extended family and spent most summers. In 1903, the Currans first visited the summer art colony of Cragsmoor. Located in the scenic Shawangunk Mountains, about 100 miles northwest of New York City, the spectacular scenery and native flora inspired Curran to build a summer home there. He died in New York City in 1942.

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For almost 33 years now, Paul Meijering has been active with the paint brushes. As a 17- year old inspired youngster he joined the Academy of Arts in Enschede (Holland) in order to receive a native training in drawing- and painting technique.

At that time (1980) the tendency of the abstract was running riot, and to his dismay and disappointment Paul found that the trade of the ancient masters was merely 'old hat', the realistic art being disregarded and looked down upon. After two years of useless botchery, there was only one conclusion to draw: 'get autodidact, be a self-taught person!' Paul then left the academy to work for a living, but at the back of his mind there always loomed the passion of his life: to paint. At his spare time he painted and his efforts are characteristic as far as man plays an important role are concerned, or to put it in his own words: 'Each human being tinkers at his own existence, it is the source of inspiration to explain the non-verbal by way of painting'.

The paintings attracted attention at various exhibitions and he was frequently approached by trades-people, hotel-keepers, merchants. These customers were for the most part interested in large wall-paintings and decorations. In the year 2000 the painter develops a speciality that's quite unique: he applies himself to paint football pictures. After a year he gets the chance to realize an open exhibition for an indefinite time as well with the Dutch Fo

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