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Hind, Charles Lewis: An American landscape painter: W. Elmer Schofield
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IV. Elmer Schofield
Had not Schofield been a painter he would
certainly have chosen some kind of life in the open
combined with travelling. Fate has been kind to
him. He works under the sky, he travels, and he
has the joy of knowing that all he sees ministers to
the improvement of his chosen work. I suppose
he would say that England is his adopted home,
but he is often on the wing. Recent letters I have
had from him come from places as far apart as
Bedford and Polperro, some of the illustrations to
this article show that Boulogne and Picardy are
also among his painting grounds, and when I wrote
to him in November last I had to address him at
Washington where he was fulfilling his duties as
one of the hanging committee of the Winter Exhi-
bition of the Corcoran Art Gallery.
I suppose a man becomes a painter because he
must, because there is nothing else he wants to do.
Young Schofield, being a Philadelphian, naturally
spent his first year .or so of study at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts. Then Paris called him,
she always .does, and in 1892, at the proper age
of twenty-five he was at Julian’s under Ferrier,
Bouguereau, and Aman-Jean, who had a class of
his own apart from Julian’s. He soon wearied of
that useful but rather stuffy kind of teaching, and
spent his hours out of doors by the Seine and in
the forest of Fontainebleau. Rambles in Brittany
followed, and in 1903 he came to England, to St.
Ives, where he spent four years. Now, as I have
said, he fluctuates between England and America,
rarely able to resist the vigorous delight of a
painting winter in his native land. There he is
working at this moment, perhaps in zero weather,
with rain and falling snow and tugging winds,
enjoying it immensely.
I sit by the club fire, trying to comfort the
marine and pastoral painter, trying in the intervals
of talk to read an article in an American magazine
by Mr. Birge Harrison entreating Americans to
paint their own land. That Schofield is doing,
and I am not sure but that he is achieving his
best work when he is painting at home in zero
weather. C. L. H.
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“THE CHANNEL BOAT, DIEPPE”
BY W. ELMER SCHOFIELD
286
( The property of A. D. Marks, Esq.)
Had not Schofield been a painter he would
certainly have chosen some kind of life in the open
combined with travelling. Fate has been kind to
him. He works under the sky, he travels, and he
has the joy of knowing that all he sees ministers to
the improvement of his chosen work. I suppose
he would say that England is his adopted home,
but he is often on the wing. Recent letters I have
had from him come from places as far apart as
Bedford and Polperro, some of the illustrations to
this article show that Boulogne and Picardy are
also among his painting grounds, and when I wrote
to him in November last I had to address him at
Washington where he was fulfilling his duties as
one of the hanging committee of the Winter Exhi-
bition of the Corcoran Art Gallery.
I suppose a man becomes a painter because he
must, because there is nothing else he wants to do.
Young Schofield, being a Philadelphian, naturally
spent his first year .or so of study at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts. Then Paris called him,
she always .does, and in 1892, at the proper age
of twenty-five he was at Julian’s under Ferrier,
Bouguereau, and Aman-Jean, who had a class of
his own apart from Julian’s. He soon wearied of
that useful but rather stuffy kind of teaching, and
spent his hours out of doors by the Seine and in
the forest of Fontainebleau. Rambles in Brittany
followed, and in 1903 he came to England, to St.
Ives, where he spent four years. Now, as I have
said, he fluctuates between England and America,
rarely able to resist the vigorous delight of a
painting winter in his native land. There he is
working at this moment, perhaps in zero weather,
with rain and falling snow and tugging winds,
enjoying it immensely.
I sit by the club fire, trying to comfort the
marine and pastoral painter, trying in the intervals
of talk to read an article in an American magazine
by Mr. Birge Harrison entreating Americans to
paint their own land. That Schofield is doing,
and I am not sure but that he is achieving his
best work when he is painting at home in zero
weather. C. L. H.
r • Wy ftB
'5' IB
1 Ej
Js L
“THE CHANNEL BOAT, DIEPPE”
BY W. ELMER SCHOFIELD
286
( The property of A. D. Marks, Esq.)