George Loftus Noyes

George Loftus Noyes (1864–1954) was a Canadian born player who gained fame in the early 20th century as an American Impressionist.

Noyes was born in Bothwell, Ontario and died in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Noyes' parents were both American citizens. He was a prominent aficionado of the Boston School of American Impressionism.

He studied at the Massachusetts Normal School later George Bartlett in the forward 1880s and in France at the Académie Colarossi in Paris amongst 1890-93. Jean Andre Rixens influenced him to a big degree. Rixen particularly influenced the artist's yet life painting.

He was a deeply respected landscape and nevertheless life painter in Boston in the further on 1900s. His stress faded after his death, but the mood of his performance has recently been purchase increasing recognition.

Noyes exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.. He was a aficionada of several Art associations, including the North Shore Art Association, the Boston Art Society, and the Guild of Boston Artists.

In 1901, Noyes taught during the summer in Annisquam, Massachusetts, and became an early scholarly to Newell Convers Wyeth, father of Andrew Wyeth and grandfather to Jamie Wyeth. N.C Wyeth also studied following Noyes in 1921, saying "His color knowledge is superb and I think he will have the funds for me much back at this juncture".

He primarily worked and painted at the Fenway Studios on 30 Ipswich Street in Boston. Other prominent Boston artists lively at the Fenway Studios in that period put in Marion Boyd Allen, Lilla Cabot Perry, Joseph Decamp, Philip Hale, Lilian Westcott Hale, Charles Hopkinson, György Kepes, William Kaula, Lee Lufkin Kaula, Lillian and Leslie Prince Thompson, William McGregor Paxton, Marion L. Pooke, Edmund Charles Tarbell, and Mary Bradish Titcomb.

A barn fire in 1939 was to ruin literally hundreds of his works, plunging Noyes into a deep depression at the age of 75.

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