Robert Reid

Robert Reid was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in July of 1862. He was a genre painter of figures, landscapes and seascapes. His work is considered highly decorative. He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and later at the Art Students League in New York. His work was shown throughout the United States and in Europe including the Paris Salon shows 1886-1889. His work today is exhibited in many museums including the Metropolitan, N.Y., National Gallery of Art, Albright-Knoxx and the Corcoran Gallery. A founding member of the Ten American Painters and a native of Massachusetts, Robert Reid first studied in Boston at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where draftsmanship, portraiture, and anatomy were stressed. He later attended the Art Students League in New York City before traveling to France for training at the Academie Julian in the late 1880s. In 1890 Reid quite suddenly adopted an impressionist style with a brighter palette, leaving behind many aspects of his academic background. Like his fellow impressionists in America and abroad, he was fond of painting attractive young women in outdoor settings.

Robert Reid Images:
A Summer's Day in a Flower Garden
Boatman and Child
The Goldfish Bowl