(Gaines) Ruger Donoho
American, 1857 - 1916
One of the leading American Impressionists, G. Ruger Donoho is best known for exuberant, color- and light-filled paintings like Garden in June. He was born on a plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi, but lost his father early in the Civil War, and fled with his widowed mother to Washington, D.C, where he attended school. He moved to New York in 1878 to study at the Art Students League under William Merritt Chase, and the following year continued his training in Paris at the Academy Julian. Donoho remained in France for almost a decade, working with the American circle in Barbizon, and exhibiting his work with increasing success in Paris and New York. Returning to the United States in 1887, he established a studio and home, spending most of his time in East Hampton, Long Island, after 1890. RS
Biography courtesy of The Charleston Renaissance Gallery, www.antiquesandfineart.com/charleston
Biography courtesy of The Charleston Renaissance Gallery, www.antiquesandfineart.com/charleston
