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WILSON H. IRVINE

CountryOld Lyme, Connecticut, USA

BiographyBorn in Byron Illinois, Wilson Henry Irvine showed early talent for drawing, and by his late teens, he was using an airbrush. In 1893, he was employed by the Chicago Portrait Company. Early in his career he was in commercial art, and by 1895, he was enrolled in evening classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. By 1900, Irvine was exhibiting landscapes and becoming actively involved in the Chicago art community as one of the founding members of that city's Palette and Chisel Club, the Cliff Dwellers, and the Hoosier Group, Indiana Impressionist artists. From 1914 to 1917, the artist spent his summers painting at Old Lyme, Connecticut, where he became affiliated with the art colony there, and in 1918, he purchased a home in neighboring Hamburg. In 1926, he was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design. Described by one scholar as having "a keenly imaginative mind," Irving experimented with his art throughout his career. His "prismatic paintings," conceived by looking at his subject through a prism, were first exhibited in 1930 at the Grand Central Art Galleries. Around that same time, he also produced "aqua prints," which introduced naturalistic forms of marbleized paper.

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