Emile Albert Gruppe Paintings
American, 1888-1967
Emile Gruppe was an unusually prolific artist. He was at his easel almost every day and created thousands of paintings over a career that lasted 60 years. At his peak, he was completing almost 200 oil paintings a year. Yet he has never failed to find an audience for his depictions of seasonal New England or harbor scenes of Rockport and Gloucester.
Gruppe was born in 1896 in Rochester, New York to an artistic family. Emile spent his youth in a fishing village in Holland, where his father, Charles Gruppe, worked as both an artist and an art dealer. Emile lived in the Netherlands until he was 17, when the family returned permanently to the United States to avoid World War I.
In New York City, Gruppe attended classes at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League, where he studied under Charles Chapman and George Bridgman. He also studied with John Carlson in Woodstock, New York, where he gained an appreciation for outdoor painting. Carlson “turned me into a painter,” he later said.
Gruppe helped found the Rockport Art Association in 1921, but he is most closely linked to Gloucester where he lived from about 1940 until his death. He operated the Gloucester School of Painting from the 1940s into the 1970s and helped turn the Rocky Neck area of East Gloucester into a world-famous art colony. The school boasted an impressive faculty but Gruppe’s own exuberant plein-air demonstrations were often the highlight of the week.
Gloucester, with its fleet of whimsically painted fishing vessels, crowded wharf buildings and shacks, and picturesque inhabitants, never ceased to fascinate Gruppe. He also helped popularize Rockport’s famous fishing shack known as Motif #1, sometimes called “the most often-painted building in America.”
By the 1940s, Gruppe was one of the most prominent of the Cape Ann artists, a group that included Frederick Mulhaupt, Anthony Thieme, Theresa Bernstein, Marguerite Pierson, William Lester Stevens, and Aldro Thompson Hibbard. The painters of this ‘Cape Ann School’ were some of the first U.S. artists to employ plein air painting techniques. Gruppe’s style, which tended toward Tonalism early in his career, mutated into a bold impressionism in the 1940s and 1950s.
Gruppe occasionally traveled to Jeffersonville, VT where he loved to paint the picturesque country roads, farms, and forests, sometimes with distinctive white birch trees. Later in life, he wintered in Florida where he painted some tropical scenes. Though Gruppe suffered a stroke in the early 1970s, he continued to paint until his death in 1978. On the morning he died, the 82-year-old artist had stretched a canvas in preparation for a day of painting.
Gruppe’s portrayals of the archetypal the houses, harbors, and rural landscape of New England have never gone out of style. His expressive impressionistic paintings continue to appeal to twenty-first-century sensibilities of a seemingly eternal New England, barely touched by modernity.to
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Artist: Emile Albert Gruppe
Emile Albert Gruppe, Autumn Landscape in the Mountains, Oil on Canvas
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Austin, TX
By Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978)
30" x 36" Oil paint on canvas
Framed Size: 38" x 44"
This painting by Emile Gruppe, titled "Autumn Landscape in the Mountains," captures a peacef...
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Sunset, Rockport Harbor
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Milford, NH
A colorful Cape Ann, Massachusetts marine harbor scene with boats docked by American artist Emile Albert Gruppé (1896-1978). Gruppé was born in Rochester, NY, and is renowned for his New England landscapes and vigorous portrayals of the harbors and houses of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The son of landscape artist Charles P. Gruppé (1860-1940), Emile enjoyed a long and successful career that spanned over six decades.In 1925, Gruppé began spending summers in Gloucester. He established a studio on Rocky Neck in East Gloucester where he taught plein-air classes. In 1942 —along with Bridgman, Carlson, Miller and Chapman—he established the Gruppé Summer School, which he continued to operate until 1970.Gruppé’s works hang in many colleges and museums: Smith College, Silberman College in Montreal, the University of Idaho, the Los Angeles Museum, the San Antonio Museum and the de Cordova Museum. His paintings are also at the White House in Washington, D.C. and the Gruppe Summer School in Gloucester.
Oil on canvas, signed lower right, title inscribed on verso stretcher “Sunset, Rockport Harbor...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Provincetown Dock
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Milford, NH
This beautiful marine oil painting of a Provincetown dock on Cape Cod was done by American artist Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978). Gruppe was born in Rochester, NY, and went on to be...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Paintings
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Emile Albert Gruppe Bass Rocks 36x30
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978)
Bass Rock, 1967
Oil on canvas
30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower right: Emile A. Gruppe
Signed, dated, and titled on the stretcher...
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1960s Expressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Fall Birches With Evergreens
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (1896 - 1978)
Fall Birches with Evergreens
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 25 x 30 Inches
Framed: 32.5 x 37.5 Inches
Condition: Excellent in original condition
Magnificent...
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1950s American Impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Paintings
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Rainy Day
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist harbor oil painting with boats by American artist Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978). Gruppe was born in Rochester, NY, and went on to become a renowned New England landscape and marine painter, best known for his vigorous portrayals of the harbors and houses of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Oil on canvas, signed lower leftt, inscribed on verso “Rainy Day...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Paintings
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Emile Albert Gruppe “Winter - Gloucester MA”
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978)
"Winter - Gloucester, Mass"
Oil on canvas
Signed "Emile A. Gruppe" (lower right)
Canvas: 20 x 24 Inchesinches
Framed: 27 x 31 inches
Prove...
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1950s American Impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Paintings
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Emile Albert Gruppe Rockport Massachusetts Ex-Christies
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) Motif #1, Rockport, Massachusetts. A cold , rainy and gray morning or evening in Rockport gethhing the nets in order to start the day of fishing an...
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1940s Emile Albert Gruppe Paintings
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Emile Albert Gruppe Important Fall Landscape 40x30
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978)
Fall landscape
Oil on canvas laid to canvas
Signed lower right: Emile A. Gruppe
Canvas: 40" H x 30" W Inches
Framed: 48.25 x 38.25 Inches
Very large ...
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1940s American Modern Emile Albert Gruppe Paintings
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Emile Albert Gruppe 'Mass 1896-1978' “Covered Bridge” Snow Painting
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
Another delightful large painting by the post impressionist master; Emile Albert Gruppe. The landscape take you down a snow covered road by a cool icy running stream through a New En...
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1940s Emile Albert Gruppe Paintings
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Emile Albert Gruppe Fishing Boats Ex- Christies 30x36
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Gruppé (1896-1978)
Fishing Boats
A large and commanding marine sailboat fishing boat scene with blue waters and blue skies. Birds are flying up above and fish swimming below ...
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1940s American Impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Paintings
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Emile Albert Gruppe Morning Gloucester
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896 - 1978), "Morning, Gloucester", oil on canvas, signed lower left "Emile A. Gruppe",
Canvas: 24 x 20 Inches
Framed: 27.25 x 23.25 Inches
Conditi...
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Emile Albert Gruppe Birtches Along The Road
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe Birches Along The Road
Signed:. l.r. Emile A. Gruppe; also signed and titled on stretcher
Oil On Canvas
Dimensions: 30 by 25 inches
Framed 34.5 by 29.5 inches
Another signature Massachusetts or Vermont birth painting...
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1940s Emile Albert Gruppe Paintings
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Harbor Scene With Sailboats Seascape
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Harbor Scene With Sailboats Seascape
Signed lower left, canvas 20x20, about 1930-40.
Emile Albert Gruppé was born 1896 in Rochester, New York. He lived the early years of his life in...
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1930s Impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe Paintings
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Emile Albert Gruppe Gloucester Docks
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) Gloucester Docks, circa 1950
Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Original Frame: 26 X 30 Inches
Signed lower right: Emile A. Grup...
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Emile Albert Gruppe Hauling The Nets
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) Post Impressionist
Titled Verso: “Hauling The Nets”
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Framed Dimensions 31 X 36 Inches
S...
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1960s Post-Modern Emile Albert Gruppe Paintings
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Emile Albert Gruppe Grey Day Gloucester
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
GRUPPE Emile Albert, (American, 1896-1978)
Title: “Gray Day, Gloucester”
Oil on Canvas
Painting: 20' x 24 Inches
Signed lower right: Emile A Gruppe
Framed: 24.5 x 28.75 Inches (N...
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Emile Albert Gruppe “Nymphs” Oil Painting Nudes by a River
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
An absolutely amazing post Impressionist painting with a cascade of bright colors showing nudes by a riverside with birch trees in the foreground and mountains in the background. Emi...
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