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for George H. Bogert
American, 1864 - 1944
Bogert was the son of a paper manufacturer and coin collector and nephew of J. Augustus Bogert, a wood engraver. In 1884 he left New York for France, first spending time in the Fontainebleau suburb of Grez-sur-Loing and then moving on to Paris to study with Raphael Collin, Aimé Morot, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Returning to New York in 1888, Bogert took an interest in the activities of the Society of American Artists. At this time, he appears to have attended Thomas Eakins's lectures on anatomy at the National Academy, given in the 1888-89 and 1889-90 school years, though he was not registered as a student in the Academy school. During the 1890s he frequently spent summers in Europe, sketching the landscapes in France and Holland with other artists, including Eugène Louis Boudin.
The year 1898 marked the beginning of recognition of his loose, Barbizon-inspired landscapes. He received the Society of American Artists' Webb Prize that year and the Academy's Julius Hallgarten Prize for September Evening (1898, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) the following year, an honor that likely prompted his election as Associate. With the turn of the century Bogert began to receive increasing critical attention. However, writers soon noticed a certain sameness to his work, suggesting that it was derivative of Jules Dupré and Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, among others. He continued his visits to Holland, traveling there several times before 1910. Bogert spent the summers of his late years at the artists' colony of Old Lyme, Connecticut.
The year 1898 marked the beginning of recognition of his loose, Barbizon-inspired landscapes. He received the Society of American Artists' Webb Prize that year and the Academy's Julius Hallgarten Prize for September Evening (1898, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) the following year, an honor that likely prompted his election as Associate. With the turn of the century Bogert began to receive increasing critical attention. However, writers soon noticed a certain sameness to his work, suggesting that it was derivative of Jules Dupré and Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, among others. He continued his visits to Holland, traveling there several times before 1910. Bogert spent the summers of his late years at the artists' colony of Old Lyme, Connecticut.
