1. Daniel Garber was an American Impressionist landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania.
10 Facts About Daniel Garber
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Daniel Garber is best known today for his large impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, in which he often depicted the Delaware River.
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Daniel Garber painted figurative interior works and excelled at etching.
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Daniel Garber was born on April 11,1880, in North Manchester, Indiana.
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Daniel Garber studied art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1899 to 1905.
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Daniel Garber exhibited his works nationwide and earned numerous awards, including a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California.
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Daniel Garber was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 1913.
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Daniel Garber died on July 5,1958, after falling from a ladder at his studio.
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Today, Daniel Garber's paintings are considered by collectors and art historians to be among the finest works produced from the New Hope art colony.
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Daniel Garber's paintings are owned by major museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, the Art Institute of Chicago and Philadelphia Museum of Art.