George Henry Bogert

George Henry Bogert (February 6, 1864 – December 13, 1944) was an American landscape painter.

George Henry Bogert was born in New York City, the son of Henry Bogert and Helen Anderson Evans. His daddy was a paper manufacturer, and a noted squirrel of coins, medals, and writings upon numismatics. As a student at the National Academy of Design and later below Thomas Eakins in New York City, he early upon displayed the facility that later brought him fame.

In 1884 he went to France and painted landscapes for a get older at Grez, near the reforest of Fontainebleau, afterwards going to Paris, where he studied below Colin, Aimé Morot, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Four years later he returned to New York and thereafter until his death was a frequent exhibitor at the Society of American Artists, the National Academy of Design, and elsewhere. In 1899, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member.

It was in 1901 that his landscape appear in began to attract attention. At the outset his achievements were tentative, but evidenced sincerity and promise. Within a few years it was evident that the artiste was rapidly around the completeness that marks reflective work, and his paintings testified to the old age of his style. In his summer journeys abroad he painted at Étaples upon the French coast taking into consideration Eugène Boudin and in the Netherlands and upon the Isle of Wight. In these surroundings he found flattering material for many of his subsequent works. His compositions were said to maintain that unchangeable in plants which represents authenticated art and he became a highbrow synthesist, ever seeking to safe unity of ensemble and endeavoring to avoid striking a untrue note in his efforts to manufacture harmony of color and effect. His endowment in this organization is strikingly illustrated in his composition "Sea and Rain", and in many of his pictures the scope of his artistic vision is broad and comprehensive. A most prolific painter whose feign found a ready and discriminating market. Bogert was exceedingly versatile, a characteristic that prevented him from having pronounced style.

In 1911 an exhibit of his statute was held at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, and attracted widespread notice. His take steps is represented in the permanent collection of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, thanks to a gift from the New York merchant, George Hearn. In 1911 and 1914 he painted at the Old Lyme Art Colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

In 1895 Bogert executed "The English Channel from St. Ives to Lelant", which was purchased by popular subscriptions in St. Louis and presented to the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts. He won reliable mention at the Pennsylvanian Academy of Fine Arts in 1892; was awarded the Webb Prize at the exhibition of American artists in 1868 for "Evening, Honfleur"; received the 1899 First Hallgarten Prize from the National Academy of Design; won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900; was awarded silver medals at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901 and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904, and normal gold medals from the American Society of Arts in 1902 and 1907.

Bogerts work has been displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Huntington Library, Pennsylvania Academy, Brooklyn Museum, Edinburgh Museum in Scotland, Shanghai Club in China, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and others, also in private collections, including those of Andrew Carnegie, Clarence Mackay, and Thomas B. Clark.

He married upon June 2, 1865 Baltimore Maryland to Margaret Austin Merryman, daughter of Joseph P. Merryman, and had two children: Austin (died in childhood), and Eleanor Bogert, who married Charles Bradford Welles. He died in New York City.