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| Hugh Henry Breckenridge |
| 1870-1937 |
| American Artist |
| Breckenridge was a modernist painter and teacher. In 1892 he was awarded a scholarship enabling him to study in Paris at the Academie Julian. His subsequent landscapes, portraits, and figure paintings reveal the influence of Impressionism and an overwhelming fascination with color. A second trip to Europe in 1909 made Breckenridge aware of more avant-garde trends. During the 1910s, he worked alternately in a vigorous Neoimpressionist technique, which he referred to as "tapestry painting,' was enriched by an expressionist palette. These paintings gained him national recognition as a foremost modernist whose art was easily accessible to the public. In 1922 Breckenridge began exhibiting abstract paintings. These abstractions of irregularly shaped, colored planes most commonly suggest the nature or the velocity of modern life. Above all they demonstrate his fascination with the theoretical basis of color. |
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