Daniel
Garber (1880-1958)
Heralded as one of the most important artists of
his day, Pennsylvania artist Daniel Garber created
a vast oeuvre on canvas and on paper, encompassing
exquisitely painted, drawn, and etched images of
the Pennsylvania countryside and the artist’s
family at leisure.
Garber was one of a small group of artists who worked
in the vicinity of New Hope, Pennsylvania, a small
idyllic town on the shore of a leisurely stretch
of the Delaware River. Consequently, these artists
were called, alternatively, the Pennsylvania School,
the Delaware Valley School, or more often the New
Hope School of painters. By the second decade of
this century this group of artists, almost all of
them landscape painters, were a major force in the
annual exhibitions held at the regional art museums
throughout the United States. In a 1915 article,
artist and critic Guy Pène du Bois observed
that the paintings by these artists were “our
first truly national expression.”
Between 1907 and the mid 1920s he won most of the
prizes available to him in both landscape and figure
painting at the Pennsylvania Academy, the National
Academy of Design, and other major juried competitions.
His pictures were avidly collected and promoted by
numerous museums nationwide. This catalogue raisonné reveals the artist’s
breadth and skill, and serves as a valuable resource
for the field of American art.
Daniel Garber
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