Lecture: Thursday, June 8th at 6:30 PM
The Whistler House Museum of Art (WHMA) is proud to host acclaimed artist and instructor Paul Ingbretson for a lecture, entitled "The Method is the School: Boston School Contrasted with the Academic," to accompany our newest exhibition, In the Light of the Past: The Students of Paul Ingbretson.
As a professional artist, teacher, and a modern-day exponent of the "Boston School," Paul Ingbretson shares his decades of experience with the WHMA. Ingbretson has organized his artistic approach around the values, work, analysis, and writings associated with the Boston School, as interpreted by the late R. H. Ives Gammell.
The Boston School began in the late 1800s, after several young artists from Boston traveled abroad to complete their education in Europe. Having already received the basics of art training in America, they studied with the salon style of "academic" art in Paris and Munich. There, they became fascinated with artists like Diego Velasquez and Claude Monet, who were focusing on form and color in painting above all else.
This sound instruction in drawing and painting from a young age, direct exposure to some of the finest painters in Europe at the time, and an introduction to impressionist color formed the basis of what would become the Boston School.
Paul Ingbretson is a top tier professional artist, teacher, and leading modern-day exponent of what became known as the "Boston School" of American art. His background includes several years at the Art Students League of New York alongside many of their top artists. Ingbretson ultimately organized his artistic approach around the values, work, analysis, and writings associated with the "Boston School," as interpreted by the late R. H. Ives Gammell. Paul is equally adept and talented in painting portraits, interiors, still lifes, and landscapes, and teaches privately in Lawrence, Massachusetts and Haverhill, New Hampshire. He was a long serving president of the prestigious Guild of Boston Artists, which was initially formed at the beginning of the 20th Century by the artists responsible for the evolution of the "Boston School."
