Louis M. Eilshemius
New Jersey, 1864–1941
Eilshemius studied in New York and at the Académie Julian in Paris and travelled widely, as far as Samoa, painting romantic landscapes and nudes that found few admirers. Marcel Duchamp singled out his work at the 1917 exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, and modernist circles later championed him, but he had stopped painting around 1921 and spent his last decades writing eccentric, self-promoting pamphlets and letters.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 4 worksDated 1889–1921
- Mostly
- Painting
- Movement
- RealismOrdinary people and working lives, painted as they were, from the 1840s on.
- Courtesy of
- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
