Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937)
Patrick Henry Bruce was active/lived in New York / France. Patrick Bruce is known for abstract painting, still life, portrait.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 20" x 12"
Frame Size: 26" x 18"
Condition: Great, No Blemishes
Style: Impressionist
Circa: 1900-1930

An expatriate painter associated with the styles of Synchronism, Fauvism, and Cubism, Patrick Henry Bruce lived an aloof, increasingly reclusive life as he aged and communicated nothing about his art and even destroyed much of it.

He was born in Long Island, Virginia and took several years of classes at the Richmond, Virginia Art Club with Edward Valentine and at the Virginia Mechanics Institute. He went to New York City in 1901 to study with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. Like so many of his peers, he went to Paris, but unlike most of them, he remained in France, staying there from 1904 to 1936, the year before he died.

He and his wife were social with many of the leading intellectuals such as Gertrude, Sara and Leo Stein; Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and his teacher, Henri Matisse. Bruce was praised by Guillaume Apollinaire and Robert Henri.

His early work, many of them portraits, reflected the influence of his American teachers, especially Henri, and James McNeill Whistler. But by 1907, he was beginning to show the effects of modernism including the bright colors of Renoir. The meeting of Matisse in 1908 followed by study with him completed the transformation to abstraction.

From 1920, he did many paintings called Compositions, of which many can be found in the collection of Yale University. These show a hard-edged style of flat, unmodelled forms. His later paintings were geometrical forms introduced on tabletops, creating a sense of spatial ambiguity by the eye's manipulation of the colors and shapes.



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