M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS
OLIVER DENNETT GROVER
American / Illinois /
England (1861-1927)
"HILLSIDE IN SUMMER, 1919"
Oil on Canvas, on Board
Signed and Dated "Oliver Dennett
Grover 1919" L.L.
Museums : Art Institute of Chicago, Eagle Nest Colony Art Collection
(Oregon IL), High Museum of Art,
The John H. Vanderpoel Art Association, Union League Club of Chicago
Books : (36), including, American Paintings for New Collectors (Schwarz-Philadelphia); Art Across America:
The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific, The Friedman Collection: Artists of Chicago, & Art Across America:
The South, Near Midwest (Gerdts, 3); American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons (Fink,
Boime, Broun);
The History and Ideals of American Art (Neuhaus);
Note :
Oliver Dennett Grover was regarded during his
lifetime as an art authority
in Chicago, which he
believed would become "a
leader in the world of art".
The year after his death,
The Art Institute of Chicago
organized a memorial
exhibition for Grover.
In 1879, Grover enrolled in
Munich's Royal Academy,
studying with Frank
Duveneck, traveling further
to study with him in Venice
and Florence. At the young age of 19, he
was already exhibiting at
Munich's International
Exposition.
After additional studies in
Paris with Boulanger and
Laurens, he returned to
Chicago and was a major
force there for the rest of
his life. He was awarded the
Yerkes prize in 1892 for a
large work, Thy Will Be
Done, which he again
exhibited at the World's
Columbia Exposition. His work resides in many
museums, collections, and
public institutions,
including The High Museum,
St. Louis Museum, Cincinnati
Museum, Art Institute of
Chicago, Detroit Art
Institute, and the Union
Club of Chicago.
Hillside in Summer, 1919,
is quite French
Impressionist in its feel, as are many of his viewed
works. The short
broken brushstrokes in this
work dance back and forth
across the canvas
foreground, the tree trunks
weaving a vertical
latticework in
lost-and-found values
against a sunlit hillside
and farmhouses, reversing
how a less creative painter
might have depicted the
scene. It is an exceptional
example of his work that we
are pleased to offer.
Additional Biographical
Information Below
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OLIVER DENNETT GROVER (1861-1927)
Birth place: Earlville, IL
Death place: Chicago
Addresses: London, England; Chicago
Profession: Mural
and landscape painter
Studied: University of Chicago, 1877-79; Royal Academy, Munich, 1879-80;
Duveneck School, Florence, Italy, 1880-84; Acad?mie Julian, Paris
with Boulanger, Lefebvre, and J.P. Laurens, 1883-97; Art Institute
of Chicago
.
Exhibited: Paris
Salon, 1884; National Academy of Design, 1886; Chicago Society of
Art, 1892 (prize); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1898,
1913-15, 1926; St. Louis Expo, 1904 (medals); Fine Arts
Building, Chicago 1906 (prize), 1914 (prize); Municipal Art League Chicago, 1910 (prize); Art Institute of
Chicago, 1913 (prize), 1918 (gold); Corcoran Gallery,
1914, 1916, 1926; Pan-Pacific Expo, San Francisco, 1915 (medal).
Member: Associate
National Academy, 1913; Chicago Painters & Sculptors; Salmagundi
Club; Art Institute of Chicago; Portrait Painters; National Arts
Club; Cliff Dwellers, Chicago; Arts & Industries; Chicago Gallery
of Art; Chicago Art Club.
Work: Public
Library, Branford, CT; Chicago Public Library; Union League Club,
Chicago; Art Institute of Chicago; St. Louis Art Museum; Detroit Art
Institute; Cincinnati Art Museum
Comments: Specialty: Italian subjects. Grover also traveled to the Pacific
Northwest.
Sources: Who’s Who in American Art, 1925; P&H, 199;
Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 349; Falk, Exhibition Record Series.
This
biography is drawn from the 'Who Was Who in American Art' , the
reference book on the cultural life in the United States.
Additional
Biographical Information
Born in
Earlville, Illinois, Grover (1861-1927) was the son of the lawyer
Alonzo Jackson Grover, moving with his family to Chicago early in
his life. While growing up in Chicago, he spent much of his
time at the Academy of Design sketching. In 1879 he enrolled in
Munich’s Royal Academy , studying with Frank Duveneck. At the early
age of 19, he was exhibiting at Munich’s International Exposition.
Grover followed Duveneck to Venice and Florence, thence to study
further in Paris between 1883 and 1885 under Boulanger and Lefebvre.
In 1884
he went to Paris for a year to study under Gustave Boulanger and
Jean-Paul Laurens. By the fall of 1885 he returned to Chicago and
until 1892 he was an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago (for
five years).
Returning
to Chicago in 1885, Grover opened a studio and founded the Western
Art Association. He served on the faculty of the Chicago Art
Academy from 1887-1892. Grover was the first to win the Yerkes
Prize in 1892 for his painting Thy Will Be Done (Illinois
Historical Art Project), depicting a woman facing some unfortunate
news she has received, convinced that it is God’s will. Grover was
soon regarded as a highly respected traditional painter and art
authority in Chicago. Clarkson (1921, p. 137) described how “his
work as chief instructor at the Art Institute did much to raise the
character of that school.”
During the World’s Columbian Exposition, Grover exhibited Thy
Will Be Done. In 1899, he executed Harem Scene, a
contribution to Orientalist genre, now in the Sheldon Swope Art
Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana. Grover participated in the St. Louis
Universal Exposition (showing three Venetian sketches), as well as
annuals at the Pennsylvania Academy and the National Academy of
Design. He contributed murals for the Blackstone Memorial Library
in Chicago in 1903. His four lunettes represent Art, Literature,
Science and Labor, executed in the rather hieratic and symmetrical
American Renaissance mural tradition. Grover’s Ponte Vecchio,
Florence and Rocky Shore: Lake Garda were on display at
the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. A writer for The
Graphics said of Grover, “He has great faith in Chicago, and
believes the city will be a leader in the world of art.”
Grover
was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1913.
He had a space in the Tree Studio Building between 1914 and 1922.
During the final decade of his life, Grover became an initial board
member of the Association of Arts and Industries, which would become
“a major force in Chicago design during the 1920s and 1930s.”
(Prince, 1990, p. 124).
Grover’s
work includes portraiture, landscapes and decorative designs. He
remained in Chicago for the rest of his career, but often traveled
to Europe for inspiration. e also traveled to the Pacific Northwest
where he did landscape paintings of Banff. The Art Institute of
Chicago organized a memorial exhibition for Grover in 1928.
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