{{Short description|American painter}} {{Infobox artist | name = Frank DuMond | image = FrankVincentDuMond.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Frank Vincent DuMond | birth_date = {{Birth date|1865|08|20|mf=y}} | birth_place = Rochester, New York, United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|1951|02|06|1865|08|20|mf=y}} | death_place = New York City, New York, United States | residence = | education = Art Students League of New York,<br /> Académie Julian | known_for = Painter, illustrator and educator | movement = Art Nouveau, Barbizon school, American Impressionism | spouse = Helen Lydia Savier (m. 1895–1951; death) | children = 2 }} [[File:Painting Class Taught By Frank DuMond in Julia E. Hoffman's Studio, 714 Everett Street, Portland, Oregon – ca. 1895 — 2005 0009 0006 P.jpg|thumb|Painting class taught by Frank DuMond in Julia E. Hoffman's studio, ca. 1895]] '''Frank Vincent DuMond''' (August 20, 1865 – February 6, 1951) was one of the most influential teacher-painters in 20th-century America.<ref name="soi">{{cite web|url=http://www.societyillustrators.org/Awards-and-Competitions/Distinguished-Educator/Current-Honorees/Frank-Vincent-DuMond.aspx|title=Distinguished Educator in the Arts: Frank Vincent DuMond, 2013 Honoree|year=2013|publisher=Society of Illustrators|access-date=July 25, 2013|archive-date=August 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808124704/http://societyillustrators.org/Awards-and-Competitions/Distinguished-Educator/Current-Honorees/Frank-Vincent-DuMond.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> He 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.
==Early life and education== Frank Vincent DuMond was born on August 20, 1865, in Rochester, New York,<ref name="fvd">{{cite web|url=http://collections.flogris.org/Art36|title=Artist Results: Frank Vincent DuMond|publisher=Florence Griswold Museum|access-date=July 25, 2013}}</ref> to Elisabeth and Alonzo DuMond, partner/owner of an ornamental iron works manufacturer. They also had a younger son, Frederick Melville DuMond (1867 - 1927).<ref name=FrederickDuMond_RPanofsky2010>{{cite book| title=Art and Ambition, 1887-1927: Frederick Melville DuMond, An American Painter of his Time| author=Panofsky, Richard| date=| publisher=lulu.com| ISBN=978-0557625802}}</ref> Frank DuMond was interested in drawing from a young age, and was involved in the local art scene in the early 1880s. He got a job creating illustrations for a sign painting business.<ref name="aaa26">''Archives of American Art Journal'', p. 26.</ref> After graduating from a Rochester public school, DuMond moved to New York City in 1884.<ref name="nad">{{cite book|last=Davis|first=John|editor=David Bernard Dearinger|title=Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHH45aYubp4C&pg=PA168|access-date=25 July 2013|year=2004|publisher=Hudson Hills|isbn=1-55595-029-9|pages=168–169}}</ref>
From 1884 to 1888, he attended the Art Students League of New York, studying under Carroll Beckwith and William Sartain.<ref name="pap"/> DuMond financed his art education by taking a job creating illustrations for New York's ''Daily Graphic'' newspaper. As a result of his fine work there, he was offered a job at ''Harper's Weekly''. He also later did work for such magazines as ''Century'', ''McClure's'',<ref name="nad"/> and ''Scribner's''.<ref name="soi"/>
He moved to Paris to continue his studies, as did his brother Frederick.<ref name=FrederickDuMond_RPanofsky2010/> From 1888 or 1889 to 1891, Frank DuMond attended the Académie Julian,<ref>[http://www.askart.com/artist/Frank_Vincent_DuMond/2227/Frank_Vincent_DuMond.aspx askart.com]</ref> where his instructors included Benjamin Constant, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, and Gustav Boulanger.<ref name="soi"/><ref name="pap"/> He attained recognition in 1890 when a painting of his, ''Holy Family'', exhibited at the Salon, was awarded a prestigious medal.<ref name="nad"/>
His early work was in the Art Nouveau style, then in Paris he was influenced by the Barbizon school, later becoming an Impressionist. In 1895 he married artist Helen Lydia Savier of Portland, Oregon.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XO8pAQAAMAAJ |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |date=1893 |publisher=J.T. White |pages=16 |language=en}}</ref> They spent five years painting in France,<ref name="pg">{{cite web|url=http://www.piercegalleries.com/artists/iart_dumond_fv.html|title=Frank Vincent DuMond|publisher=Pierce Galleries|access-date=October 5, 2013|archive-date=October 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005004443/http://www.piercegalleries.com/artists/iart_dumond_fv.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> where he also held summer classes for the Art Students League, painting landscapes outdoors from dawn until sunset.<ref name="afa">{{cite web|url=http://www.antiquesandfineart.com/artists/bio.cfm?id=146743|title=Frank Vincent DuMond|publisher=Antiques & Fine Art|access-date=October 5, 2013}}</ref> In 1900 he was elected into the National Academy of Design, and became a full Academician in 1906. thumb|Iris
==Work== 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.<ref name="pap">{{cite web|url=http://www.papillongallery.com/frank_dumond.html|title=Frank V. DuMond|publisher=Papillon Gallery|access-date=October 5, 2013}}</ref> He served as director of fine arts at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition<ref name="afa"/> in Portland in 1905, and he helped organize the first exhibition at the Portland Art Museum that year. For the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, he prepared two huge murals, 12 feet high by 47 feet long, which now hang in the San Francisco Public Library.<ref name="pg"/><ref name="sol">{{cite web|url=http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa601.htm|title=Seasons of Life: American Impressionism and Frank Vincent DuMond|year=2001|publisher=Traditional Fine Arts Organization|access-date=October 5, 2013}}</ref>
thumb|"The Capture of the Tourelles" – illustration from Mark Twain's ''Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc''
The editor of ''Harper's'', who was also president of the Art Students League of New York, convinced him to take a job teaching at the League. He still performed illustration work for a while in addition to teaching, including the artwork for Mark Twain's ''Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc''.<ref name="fvd"/>
In a teaching career spanning more than fifty years, DuMond taught thousands of artists at the Art Students League of New York. His students included Norman Rockwell, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Frank J. Reilly,<ref name="soi"/><ref name="nad"/> Charles Webster Hawthorne,<ref name="kg">{{cite web|url=http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/charles_webster_hawthorne_1872.htm |title=Charles Webster Hawthorne 1872 |last=Gibbons |first=Kathleen |publisher=Butler Institute of American Art |access-date=August 22, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027031432/http://butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/charles_webster_hawthorne_1872.htm |archive-date=October 27, 2010 }}</ref> Frank Herbert Mason,<ref name="wat"/> Ogden Pleissner, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Louis Bouché, Eugene Speicher,<ref name="aaa26"/> Helen Winslow Durkee, Arthur Maynard and Rosina Cox Boardman.<ref name="N.Y.)Barratt2010">{{cite book|author1=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)|author-link2=Carrie Rebora Barratt|author2=Carrie Rebora Barratt|author3=Lori Zabar|title=American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YHKoX40qL7EC|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-1-58839-357-9}}</ref>
DuMond developed a Prismatic Palette, used especially for landscapes. His 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. A student quoted DuMond, "Silently glowing over this whole landscape is a rainbow. You must learn to see it. It is there always." Variations of the Prismatic Palette are still{{when|date=September 2018}} used by many artists and teachers<ref name="wat">{{cite journal|last=Watkins|first=Leslie|date=May–June 2012|title=The Prismatic Palette|journal=Art Times|location=Mt. Marion, New York|url=http://www.arttimesjournal.com/art/Art_Essays/May_Jun_12_Leslie_Watkins/The_Prismatic_Palette.html|access-date=August 21, 2013}}</ref> and by schools, including the Ridgewood Art Institute in New Jersey.<ref name="rai">{{cite web|url=http://www.ridgewoodartinstitute.org/history1.html|title=Our History: The Influence of Frank Vincent DuMond|date=2008–2009|publisher=Ridgewood Art Institute|access-date=October 5, 2013|location=Bergen County, New Jersey|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005155752/http://www.ridgewoodartinstitute.org/history1.html|archive-date=October 5, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
DuMond was a member of the Old Lyme Art Colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut,<ref name="fgm">{{cite web|url=http://www.florencegriswoldmuseum.org/learning/foxchase/html/frank_dumond.php|title=On-Line Learning: Frank Vincent DuMond|publisher=Florence Griswold Museum|access-date=July 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930151109/http://www.florencegriswoldmuseum.org/learning/foxchase/html/frank_dumond.php|archive-date=September 30, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> where he lived in a neighborhood called Grassy Hill. For several years he headed the Art Students League's Lyme Summer School of Art, where he also taught outdoors, as he had in France. After the school moved to Woodstock, NY, DuMond continued to give private classes in Old Lyme.<ref name="fvd"/>
DuMond died in New York City on February 6, 1951, at the age of 85.<ref name="fgm"/><ref>{{Cite news |date=February 7, 1951 |title=Frank V. DuMond, 86, Famed Old Lyme Artist, Dies in NY |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-day-frank-v-dumond-86-famed-old-l/168173264/ |access-date=2025-03-17 |work=The Day |pages=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Collections== DuMond's work is in the permanent collections of the following institutions:<ref name="si">Unless otherwise noted, reference for collections is: {{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=Y3HJ695173077.402&profile=ariall&uri=link=3100006~!215069~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=1&source=~!siartinventories&term=DuMond%2C+Frank+Vincent%2C+1865-1951%2C+painter.&index=AUTHOR|title=DuMond, Frank Vincent|work=Smithsonian Institution Research Information System|publisher=Smithsonian American Art Museum|access-date=July 27, 2013}}</ref> {{Div col|colwidth=30em}} *Brandywine River Museum<ref name="mus">{{cite web|url=http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/Search_Grid.aspx?searchtype=MUSEUMS&artist=2227|title=Fine Art Museums for Frank Vincent DuMond|publisher=AskART|access-date=July 27, 2013}}</ref> *Bruce Museum of Arts and Science<ref name="mus"/> *Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum *Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens *Delaware Art Museum *Denver Art Museum *Florence Griswold Museum<ref name="or">{{cite web|url=http://collections.flogris.org/LST2?rec=1&sid=14079&x=1305312|title=Object Results: DuMond, Frank Vincent|publisher=Florence Griswold Museum|access-date=October 5, 2013}}</ref> *Lyman Allyn Art Museum *National Academy of Design *National Arts Club *New Britain Museum of American Art *Portland Art Museum *Richmond Art Museum . San Antonio Museum of Art *San Francisco Arts Commission *San Francisco Public Library *Smithsonian American Art Museum<ref name="mus"/> *Society of Illustrators *Strong Museum *Virginia Museum of Fine Arts<ref name="vm">{{cite web|url=http://www.tfaoi.com/articles/vmfa.htm|title=Virginia Museum Acquires 'Iris' Painting by Frank Dumond, Who Taught O'Keeffe|year=1997|publisher=Traditional Fine Arts Organization|access-date=October 5, 2013}}</ref> {{div col end}}
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==Sources== {{Commons category|Frank DuMond}} * {{cite journal|year=1973|title=The Frank Vincent Dumond Papers|journal=Archives of American Art Journal|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|volume=13|issue=1|pages=25–28|jstor=1557022|doi=10.1086/aaa.13.1.1557022|s2cid=222436331}}
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