Author Description

Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (November 5, 1858 - February 11, 1923) An American painter and educator. DeCamp became known as a member of the Boston School led by Edmund C. Tarbell and Emil Otto Grundmann, focusing on figure painting, and in the 1890s adopting the style of Tonalism. DeChamp was a founder of the Ten American Painters, a group of American Impressionists, in 1897. From 1903 until his death in 1923, DeChamp was a faculty member at Massachusetts Normal Art School, now Massachusetts College of Art and Design, teaching painting from the living model and portraiture. In 1891, DeChamp married Edith Franklin Baker (1868-1955). They had four children: Sarah "Sally" (1892-1973), Theodore "Ted" (1894-1955), Lydia (1896-1974), and Pauline (1899-).[3] Family members served as models for a number of his paintings. A 1904 fire in his Boston studio destroyed several hundred of his early paintings, including nearly all of his landscapes. Joseph DeChamp died in Boca Grande, Florida