Frederick Mortimer Lamb (American 1861 - 1936) Boy Riding Draft Horses

Born in Middleboro, MA, Lamb, at age 17, attended the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston, followed by study at the Académie Julian in Paris, France. A versatile artist, Lamb is known for landscape, portrait, genre still-life and sporting art paintings. Whether in oil, water color or pastel, or executed in a tonalist or luminist manner, he painted his subjects equally well, with a high level of skill and mastery of color and light. He believed that the work of an artist was never completed-- a subject offered new study and achievement through a lifetime. Lamb was a member of the New York Water Color Club (absorbed by the American Water Color Society in 1941); ).; American Water Color Society; Washington Water Color Club; New Haven Paint and Clay Club; and the Boston Art Club. He exhibited at the Boston Art Club (1889– 1905); Art Institute of Chicago;20th Century Expo (Boston, 1900, gold); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, 1913 – 1918); ); Panama-Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco, 1915, medal); Society of Independent Artists (1917, 1920, 1925-26. 1930); and Salons of America (1923, 1925, 1934).