Sunday, September 16, 2018

Julius C. Rolshoven


Julius C. Rolshoven, Model Reclining and Reading a Sketchbook
Julius Rolshoven (1858-1930) was a Detroit-born artist who studied in Europe. He is best known for his paintings of women and Native Americans.


He joined a group of high-spirited artists called the "Duveneck Boys" in Florence, enchanted by Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto. He bought and fixed up a dilapidated Tuscan castle known as "The Tower of the Devils."


He bounced around Europe for a while, studying in Paris, and finally landed in the Taos art colony in New Mexico.
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Read the biography at the Gerald Peters Gallery
Wikipedia article on Julius Rolshoven
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6 comments:

  1. rock995September 16, 2018 at 1:38 PM

    I wonder if Gerald Peters has any of his paintings from Tuscan days or only Taos stuff.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2018 at 4:28 AM

    Do you believe that with all the resources we have these days, using the internet, various books and observation one could become a prominent artist such as yourself or Norman Rockwell? I’m currently attending art school, but find it slow and lacking, as well as not believing it is worth travelling three hours a day for. I studied your videos closely as well as many painters and illustrators also doing observational work. I started drawing in January 2018, and got many comments on how realistic I draw and how it is surprising I managed to establish my own line and my own characteristics in such a short period of time. Did you learn most of the things you know by being out there drawing in the field?
    I would also like to take the time to tell you that you are one of the greatest illustrators I have ever put my eyes on.

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  3. James GurneySeptember 17, 2018 at 8:33 AM

    Wil, it's a good question, and I'd like to recommend a previous post that addresses it: https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2017/12/how-did-you-prepare-for-your-career.html

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  4. Peter DrubetskoySeptember 20, 2018 at 4:20 PM

    Is that really the title: "... reading the sketchbook"? Not that some artists don't write in their sketchbooks, but it is definitely not universal and at least form this small image I cannot tell if any words are visible on that page. Just curious...

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  5. James GurneySeptember 20, 2018 at 5:07 PM

    Peter, that's the title they give it on Wikipedia and El Paso Museum of Art, which has the painting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Rolshoven#/media/File:Julius_Rolshoven_-_%27Nude_-_Model_Reading_a_Sketch_Book%27,_oil_on_canvas,_c._1900,_El_Paso_Museum_of_Art.jpg
    Maybe there's writing in there as well as sketches.

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