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Janaury Issue 2008
Spartanburg Art Museum in Spartanburg, SC, Features Works by Leon Makielski
The Spartanburg Art Museum (SAM) in Spartanburg, SC, will present the exhibition Leon Makielski (18851974): American Impressionist, on view from Jan. 22 through Mar. 23, 2008.
Makielski was a member of a number of art colonies, both in the United States and in Europe. He painted in Paris, Giverny and Venice. In 1909 he sailed for Paris, where he enrolled at the Academie Julian and the Grande Chaumiere. He exhibited his work at the Paris Salons of 1910 and 1911.
J.M. Studebaker, president of Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, provided Makielski with his financial and moral support during his studies and travels in Europe. In one of his letters of support to the artist during this time, Studebaker inquired about two of his paintings which were shipped to the United States via the steamer, Titanic. As he suspected, the paintings went down with the ship while the artist cancelled his passage on the Titanic to stay on in Europe to paint for another month.
Makielski's move to Ann Arbor, MI, in 1915 launched his career as a portrait and landscape painter. During his teaching days in 1923 he painted a portrait of his friend, Robert Frost. This portrait of Frost now hangs in the Museum of Art at the University of Michigan.
Makielski was included in William Gerdts' book, Monet's Giverny: An Impressionist Colony (New York: Abbeville, 1993), p. 218, 260.
For further information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Museum at 864/582-7616 or at (www.spartanburgartmuseum.org).
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