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Joseph Decamp Biography

American Impressionist painter
born 1858 - died 1923

Also known as: Joseph Rodefer Decamp.
Student of: Frank Duveneck (1848-1919).
Teacher of: Margaret Fitzhugh Browne (1884-1972), Amy M. Sacker (1876-1965)

A native of Boston, was known for Joseph DeCamp portraits paintings of women in interiors and in girl body poses, Joseph DeCamp portraits and some landscapes. His work reflected both realism and impressionism, and as an evolving impressionist Joseph Rodefer DeCamp was one of the "The Ten", a group of ten American artists whose members with avant-garde ideas about painting styles and exhibitions rebelled against the more staid Society of American Artists. It is said that after his affiliation with The Ten and especially after spending time in Gloucester, summer of 1900, with Frank Duveneck and John Twachtman, DeCamp became much more committed to Impressionism.

In 1875, at the age of seventeen, the painter began his art career by studying in Munich under Frank Duveneck. The Dutch Masters, whose work Joseph Rodefer DeCamp saw in Holland, especially that of Jan Vermeer, influenced many of future Joseph DeCamp paintings, most often female figures near a window, bathed in the light from the exterior.

He returned to Boston in 1880, and established a career as a teacher and portrait painter. Joseph Rodefer DeCamp had been a prominent member of The Boston School of painting, which focused in realistic style primarily on figural subjects of beauty, elegance and refinement. A Joseph Rodefer DeCamp portraits in this style and one of particular significance is that of Theodore Roosevelt, which Joseph Rodefer DeCamp painted for Roosevelt's Harvard classmates. Even this formal portrait shows the influence of Vermeer in the broad expanse of wall and the use of atmospheric light which serves as a backdrop to silhouette Roosevelt.

Because portrait painting was his focus, only relatively few landscapes by DeCamp are found. However, this circumstance likely is affected by the studio fires that occurred in Boston in the Harcourt Building in 1904, where hundreds of Joseph DeCamp paintings were destroyed.

Joseph Rodefer DeCamp also was an art educator with a long-time teaching assignment at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston. Other teaching assignments were the Boston Museum School of Fine Art and the Pennsylvania Academy.

It is typical of his interior figure scenes of the period in its dramatic side-lighting and focus on the mood rather than the features of the sitter. His student at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, Rose V. S. Berry, later described Joseph DeCamp painting method as follows: "he seldom required a fixed, rigid pose of his model. Joseph Rodefer DeCamp walked around the sitter, the artist felt of the head, discovered the texture of the ear, examined its placement upon the head, and proceeded in general with much the line of attack which a sculptor takes..." (Berry, pp. 183-184). The tactile quality of Decamp's surfaces reflects this approach, as does the strong modeling of his figures.In his article on DeCamp for the Dictionary of American Biography, William Howe Downes lists La Penserosa as one of best known Joseph DeCamp portraits.