DuMond, Frank Vincent, 1865-1951

found: Havlice, P.P. Index to artistic biog., 1st suppl., 1981(Dumond, Frank Vincent (Du Mond), 1865-1951, Amer. painter, illustrator)

found: WWasW in Amer. art(DuMond, Frank V.; painter, illustrator, teacher; b. 1865, Rochester, NY; lived Lyme, CT; d. 6 F 1951, NYC)

found: Frank Vincent DuMond; born August 20, 1865; one of the most influential teacher-painters in 20th-century America; illustrator and American impressionist painter of portraits and landscapes; after graduating from a Rochester public school, he moved to New York City in 1884; attended the Art Students League of New York 1884-1888; financed his art education by creating illustrations for New York's Daily Graphic newspaper; offered a job at Harper's Weekly; later did work for such magazines as Century, McClure's, and Scribner's; moved to Paris to continue his studies; attended Académie Julian 1888 or 1889-1891; in 1894 he married Helen Savier of Portland, Oregon, also an artist; they spent five years painting in France, where he also held summer outdoor landscape painting classes for the Art Students League; elected into the National Academy of Design in 1900, became a full Academician in 1906; instructed thousands of art students at the Art Students League over more than fifty years; member of the Old Lyme Art Colony, Old Lyme, Connecticut; for several years he headed the Art Students League's Lyme Summer School of Art, teaching outdoors as he had in France)