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Patrick Henry Bruce, a great-great grandson of Patrick Henry, the famous Revolutionary War statesman and orator, studied in New York with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. His style crystallized in 1907, four years after his arrival in Paris, when the Virginia native began mixing with the avante-garde circle of Gertrude Stein. He looked closely at the compositional and technical innovations of Paul Cézanne’s still lifes and learned from his teacher, Henri Matisse. The colorful abstractions of Orphic cubists Robert and Sonia Delaunay also impressed him. These modernist influences led Bruce to create his best-known works. . . .
- Dorothy Moss, formerly Assistant Curator of American Art Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online
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