Theodore Scott-Dabo

Theodore Scott-Dabo (November 16, 1865 - November 17, 1928) casually known as Scott Dabo, was a French/American tonalist landscape player thought to be from Detroit, Michigan but is now known to have been born in Saverne, France. Active both in New York and Paris, he was the younger brother of Leon Dabo. Both artists were Impressionist landscape painters, who shared in a same manner in style and tone. During the period later they worked together, their subjects were usually landscapes and seascapes in the early hours of daylight or evening at twilight, they utilized spare composition and reductive color schemes to evoke what they termed, mood. The Dabo brothers style that had a Whistlerian quality, and subsequent to James McNeill Whistler both would attain be labeled Tonalist. The youngest brother in the family, Louis, a writer and publicist, also used the name Scott Dabo.