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William Emile Schumacher(1870-1931)Champigny-sur-Marne
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Claire Dettelbach
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Jewel Bernier
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William Emile Schumacher (1870-1931)
signed 'Schumacher Wm E' (lower right)
oil on board
13 1/8 x 16 1/8 in. (33.3 x 41.0 cm)
Painted in April 1912.
Footnotes
Provenance
A private New York collection.
By descent to the present private collection.
N.B.
The handwritten inscriptions on the reverse read:
'This picture is not to be varnished before the month of May - year 1914 - and on a dry day. / Schuacher Wm E / May 1912 / Paris.'
'Painted in the month of April, 1912, at Champigny - Marne - France.'
William Emile Schumacher was born in Belgium and came to Boston with his family at a young age. He studied at the Dresden Academy and the Académie Julian, where he began to absorb the influence of the many currents of European modernism at the time: the vivid colors of the Fauvists, the pointillism of Seurat, and the soft forms and subjects of the Impressionists. Upon returning to New York in 1912, Schumacher aligned himself fully with the modernist movement after the 1913 Armory Show. His work was exhibited alongside artists like Charles Demuth, Maurice Prendergast, and William Glackens. The present work was painted in the same year that Schumacher returned to the U.S. from France; it clearly shows his interest in the brilliant colors of the Fauvists as well as the impressionistic, generalized forms of the avant-garde.

