William Rowell Derrick (American 1857 - 1941) Wildflowers at Stream's Edge

Oil on canvas, 25.5 x 39.5 inches/Signed lower left

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Landscape painter William Rowell (W.R.) Derrick was born in San Francisco, California. In 1878 he began study at the Adelphia Academy, Brooklyn, New York with John B. Whitaker and the following year left for Paris. From 1879 to 1882 he studied with Leon Bonnat and from 1882 to 1885 at the Académie Julian with Boulanger and Lefebvre. While in France he spent his summers at Graz in southeast Austria painting with American artists Willard Metcalf, C.Y. Turner and George Hitchcock. Derrick also visited Scheveningen, Holland, the eastern coast of England at Yarmouth, and Wales on the western coast.

When Derrick returned to New York City in 1885 he studied and taught at the Art Students League and taught at the Brooklyn Art Students Guild until 1900. 1890 saw him back in California, painting at Monterey, at a time when it, Carmel-by-the Sea and Pacific Grove were becoming havens for artists.

Although Derrick painted mostly in oil, for a period from ~1896 to ~1910, he worked in watercolor. One of his patron’s was Stewart Hartshorn, inventor of the spring roller shade, at whose home in Short Hills, New Jersey Derrick lived as well as at Hartshorn's summer retreat at Squam Lake, near the White Mountains in New Hampshire.

Derrick was a member of the National Academy of Design; National Art Club (NYC); Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; Lotos Club; Chicago Art Guild; New York Society of Painters; (Pres., 1921); American Arts Society; Society of Independent Artists; Barnard Club (NYC).

He exhibited at the Paris Salon (1885); National Academy of Design (1886 – 1939); Boston Art Club (1897-1908); Philadelphia Watercolor Club (1897-1901, 1903-1904, 1908); Society of American Artists (1898-1899); New York State Fair (Syracuse, 1898); Transmississippi Exhibition (Omaha, 1898); American Art Society (Philadelphia,1903, prize for watercolor, 1907); American Watercolor Society (18969-1909); Boston Art Club (1897-1898, 1900, 1905, 1907-1908); Buffalo Academy of Fine Art (1906, 1907, 1909, 1915); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1907-1908); Poland Spring Art Gallery (1907-1916); Corcoran Gallery (1908, 1912); Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts (1912, 1916-prize, 1920, 1924); Worcester (MA, 1908); Lotos Club (1911); Union League Club (NYC, 1913, 1915, 1915-1916); New Haven Paint and Clay Club (1912-1913, 1915, 1919and the National Arts Club (1911-1916, 1920-1922, 1926, 1935-1936).

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