Charles P. Gruppé
{{Short description|American painter}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Charles Paul Gruppé
| image =Gruppe.jpg
| other_names = C.P. Gruppe
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1860|09|03}}
| birth_place = Picton, Canada West
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1940|09|30|1860|09|03}}
| death_place = Rockport, Massachusetts, U.S.
| spouse = Helen Elizabeth Gruppé (née Mitchell)
| children = 4, including Emile Gruppe, Virginia Helena Gruppé
}}
Charles Paul Gruppé (3 September 1860, Picton, Canada West – 30 September 1940, Rockport, Massachusetts)[http://www.rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/record?query=Gruppé&start=0 Charles Paul Gruppé] at the RKD databases{{Cite news|date=1940-10-01|title=C.P. Gruppe Death Announcement|pages=12|work=Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester, New York|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7191482/cp-gruppe-death-announcement-oct-1/|access-date=2020-08-24}} was a Canadian-born, American painter.[http://www.charlesgruppe.com/ Welcome to the Art of Charles C. Gruppé] "Charles C. Gruppé comes from one of America's most respected families of artists. His grandfather, Charles Paul Gruppé (1860–1940), studied and painted in ..."{{Cite book|title=Gruppe, Charles Paul|publisher=Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford University Press|year = 2011|doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00080009}}
About
Charles Paul Gruppé was born 3 September 1860 in Picton, Ontario, Canada.{{Cite web|title=Artist Biography for Charles Paul Gruppe|url=https://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Charles_Paul_Gruppe/23142/Charles_Paul_Gruppe.aspx|access-date=2020-08-24|website=Askart.com}} He moved to Rochester at the age of three with his mother Albertina Gruppe (1822–1900) and brother Herman and sister Clara, after the death of his father Henry W. Gruppe.{{Cite journal|title=Gruppe Plot|url=http://hdl.handle.net/1802/6335|access-date=2020-08-23|website=University of Rochester Libraries|date=22 December 2008|hdl=1802/6335|last1=James|first1=Amanda}} He was a self-taught artist. In 1872, at the age of twelve, he was a founder of the Rochester Art Club.
Between 1897 and 1913, Gruppé lived in the Netherlands, where he painted with the Hague School and acted as a dealer for Dutch painters in the United States. He, his wife Helen Elizabeth (née Mitchell) and their children returned permanently to America in 1913 ahead of World War I. Gruppe owned a Queen Annes-style row house from July 1912 until 1972, at 138 Manhattan Avenue, New York City, New York.{{Cite news|last=Gray|first=Christopher|date=1999-11-28|title=Streetscapes/Manhattan Avenue Between 104th and 106th Streets; 1880's Brick Row Houses With a Bostonian Air|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/28/realestate/streetscapes-manhattan-avenue-between-104th-106th-streets-1880-s-brick-row.html|access-date=2020-08-24|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|last=Miller|first=Tom|date=2014-09-03|title=C.P.H. Gilbert's Queen Anne Row at 122-140 Manhattan Ave|url=http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2014/09/cph-gilberts-queen-anne-row-at-122-138.html|access-date=2020-08-24|website=Daytonian in Manhattan}}
All the Gruppé children were active in the arts; Paulo Mesdag (1891–1979) was a cellist, Karl Heinrich (1893–1982) was a sculptor, Virginia Helena Gruppé worked in watercolors, and Emile Albert Gruppé was a painter.American Artists in Photographic Portraits: From the Peter A. National Museum of American Art (U.S.), Nat'l Museum American Art, Joan Stahl – 1995 "EMILE ALBERT GRUPPE (1896–1978), painter. His paintings of sailboats and fishing vessels were often Dramatically composed. Gruppe was from a family of painters— his father, brother, sister and nephew were artists. He painted in and ..."L. M. Vincent -In Search of Motif No. 1: The History of a Fish Shack 2011 – Page 62 "According to the Gloucester Daily Times, Charles P. Gruppé's charming pictures Wharf at Rockport and Fishing Shacks were the pictures perhaps attracting the most attention."
His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/921516 |title=Charles P. Gruppé |work=Olympedia |access-date=2 August 2020}}
He was a member of the Rochester Art Club, Pulchri Studio, the American Watercolor Society, New York Color Club, the National Arts Club, the Art Club of Philadelphia, and the Salmagundi Club.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G4sXAQAAIAAJ|title=American Art Annual|date=1916|publisher=MacMillan Company|pages=384|language=en}} He died on 30 September 1940, in his summer home in Rockport, Massachusetts.
His work is included in many public museum collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum,{{Cite web|title=Charles P. Gruppe|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/charles-p-gruppe-1972|access-date=2020-08-24|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)|language=en-US}} Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA),{{Cite web|title=A Dutch Canal|url=https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/dutch-canal-47231|access-date=2020-08-24|website=www.dia.org}} amongst others.
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External links
- [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/charles-paul-gruppe-papers-8292 Charles Paul Gruppe papers, 1903–1940], from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Charles Paul Gruppé}}
- {{Find a Grave|id=8314354|name=}}
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Category:19th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American expatriates in the Netherlands
Category:People from Prince Edward County, Ontario
Category:Painters from Ontario
Category:Emigrants from pre-Confederation Ontario to the United States
Category:19th-century American male artists