16 Facts About Frank DuMond

Frank Vincent DuMond was one of the most influential teacher-painters in 20th-century America.

Frank DuMond was an illustrator and American Impressionist painter of portraits and landscapes, and a prominent teacher who instructed thousands of art students throughout a career spanning over fifty years.

Frank DuMond was interested in drawing from a young age, and was involved in the local art scene in the early 1880s.

Frank DuMond got a job creating illustrations for a sign painting business.

Frank DuMond financed his art education by taking a job creating illustrations for New York's Daily Graphic newspaper.

Frank DuMond later did work for such magazines as Century, McClure's, and Scribner's.

Frank DuMond moved to Paris to continue his studies, as did his brother Frederick.

From 1888 or 1889 to 1891, Frank DuMond attended the Academie Julian, where his instructors included Benjamin Constant, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, and Gustav Boulanger.

Frank DuMond attained recognition in 1890 when a painting of his, Holy Family, exhibited at the Salon, was awarded a prestigious medal.

Frank DuMond exhibited at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and the Saint Louis Exposition.

Frank DuMond served as director of fine arts at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland in 1905, and he helped organize the first exhibition at the Portland Art Museum that year.

Frank DuMond still performed illustration work for a while in addition to teaching, including the artwork for Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.

Frank DuMond's students were taught to see a progression of prismatic light in pre-mixed paints placed in a tonal progression flowing from yellow to violet on the warm side and from yellow to green to blue green to violet on the cool side.

Frank DuMond was a member of the Old Lyme Art Colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut, where he lived in a neighborhood called Grassy Hill.

Frank DuMond died in New York City on February 6,1951, at the age of 85.

Frank DuMond's work is in the permanent collections of the following institutions:.