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Unlike most of the other artists commissioned by the Bureau of Reclamation, Horace Day was born abroad in China, in 1909, to missionary parents. He was self taught until he came to the United States at age 18 and enrolled in the Art Students League. He studied with Boardman Robinson, Kimon Nicholaides, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Before the U.S. became involved in World War II, he was the first director of the Herbert Institute of Art in Augusta, Georgia. After the U.S. entered the war, Day prepared maps for the 86th division staff, as well as painted and sketched his impressions of war from the point of view of an enlisted soldier. Although he painted during his tour of duty, he was not involved in the Armed Forces art program until after the war, when he was assigned to the Army historical section. After the war, he was a professor at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia. In addition to the Bureau of Reclamation commission, he painted a mural in the Clinton, Texas U.S. Post Office.
Horace Day called himself a regional painter, interested in depicting the scenery of his adopted South. The style he chose to portray, the landscapes and people of the South, was a brand of Romantic Realism influenced by Claude Lorraine and Jacob van Ruysdael. He primarily worked outside, as a plein air painter, using quick impressionistic brush strokes to record the scene.
From The Dept. of Interior web site.
Paintings by Horace Day are included in major museums and collections including The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont; The Craven Collection, Yale University; the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; Tiffany Foundation; The Smithsonian American Art Museum; U.S. Department of Interior; U.S. Military Academy; Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; and the Nelson Atkins Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri. His portraits include those of governors, judges and college presidents.
An exhibition of works by Horace Day is on display at the Black History Museum of Alexandria, Va.
http://alexandriava.gov/historic/blackhistory/default.aspx?id=37388#style
Unlike most of the other artists commissioned by the Bureau of Reclamation, Horace Day was born abroad in China, in 1909, to missionary parents. He was self taught until he came to the United States at age 18 and enrolled in the Art Students League. He studied with Boardman Robinson, Kimon Nicholaides, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Before the U.S. became involved in World War II, he was the first director of the Herbert Institute of Art in Augusta, Georgia. After the U.S. entered the war, Day prepared maps for the 86th division staff, as well as painted and sketched his impressions of war from the point of view of an enlisted soldier. Although he painted during his tour of duty, he was not involved in the Armed Forces art program until after the war, when he was assigned to the Army historical section. After the war, he was a professor at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia. In addition to the Bureau of Reclamation commission, he painted a mural in the Clinton, Texas U.S. Post Office.
Horace Day called himself a regional painter, interested in depicting the scenery of his adopted South. The style he chose to portray, the landscapes and people of the South, was a brand of Romantic Realism influenced by Claude Lorraine and Jacob van Ruysdael. He primarily worked outside, as a plein air painter, using quick impressionistic brush strokes to record the scene.
From The Dept. of Interior web site.
Paintings by Horace Day are included in major museums and collections including The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont; The Craven Collection, Yale University; the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; Tiffany Foundation; The Smithsonian American Art Museum; U.S. Department of Interior; U.S. Military Academy; Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; and the Nelson Atkins Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri. His portraits include those of governors, judges and college presidents.
An exhibition of works by Horace Day is on display at the Black History Museum of Alexandria, Va.
http://alexandriava.gov/historic/blackhistory/default.aspx?id=37388#style
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