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[[File:Frank Charles Peyraud.jpg|thumb|200px|Frank Charles Peyraud (''[[Fine Arts Journal]]'', 1918), from the</br> Illinois Historical Art Project]]
'''Frank Charles Peyraud''' (1 June 1858, [[Bulle, Switzerland]] - 1 May 1948, [[Highland Park, Illinois]])<ref name="P">Biography by Nancy Peyraud @ the Illinois Historical Art Project,</ref> was an American landscape painter of French-Swiss origin. He worked in a modified [[Impressionistic]] style and was one of the first artists to focus on landscapes in the Midwest.
==Biography==
He displayed an early interest in art, but his father advised him to pursue a more practical education. He began his preliminary studies for architecture at the [[Collège Saint-Michel]], and completed them, rather perfunctorily, at the [[ETH Zurich|Polytechnikum]] in [[Zürich]].<ref name="P" /> Later, at the urging of friends, he spent two years at the [[École des Beaux Arts]] in Paris.
[[File:Frank Charles Peyraud - Summer.jpg|thumb|275px|left|Summer]]
In 1881, at the age of twenty-two, for reasons unknown, he went to the United States with his brother Paul and decided that Chicago would be a good place for an architect. He was, however, initially employed as a [[cyclorama]] painter, having been rejected by the architectural firm of [[William Le Baron Jenney]], apparently due to inadequate English language skills.<ref name="S">[http://bit.ly/2HCijap Biography] @ the Schwartz Collection.</ref> Soon, he began studies at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]]; participating in their first exhibit in 1888.<ref name="N">[http://bit.ly/2VNyHyF Biography] @ ArtNet.</ref>
In 1891, he became involved in retouching a famous [[panorama]] by [[Paul Philippoteaux]] depicting the "[[Gettysburg Cyclorama|The Battle of Gettysburg]]", when it was being prepared for an exhibit in Chicago. He continued to perform this type of work throughout the 1900s and was involved in several projects that did not come to fruition. He never took it seriously and referred to it as "potboiling".<ref name="A">[http://bit.ly/2HCLjyS Biography] @ AskArt.</ref> That same year, he and the landscape painter, Arthur Feudel (1857-1929) established a studio in [[Rockford, Illinois|Rockford]]. He also painted murals; notably in 1896 at the new [[Peoria, Illinois|Peoria]] Public Library, together with Hardesty Gilmore Maratta (1864-1924), an artist and paint manufacturer.<ref name="A" /> For several years after, he returned there periodically to teach drawing classes.<ref name="S" />
He was a charter member of the [[Chicago Society of Artists]], and helped found the Cosmopolitan Club and the [[Society of Western Artists (1896-1914)|Society of Western Artists]].<ref name= "N" />
His first wife, Angela Morand, also an emigrant from Switzerland, whom he had married in 1885, died in 1899 of [[tuberculosis]].<ref name="P" /> In 1906, he married Elizabeth Krysher (1872-1961), a portrait painter and illustrator.<ref name="A" /> In 1919, they settled in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago, but also travelled extensively.<ref name="S" /> In 1921, he returned to Switzerland with his wife and stayed there for three years, once again travelling, throughout Europe, before coming back to Chicago.
[[File:Frank Charles Peyraud - October.jpg|thumb|300px|October]]
Despite failing eyesight, he continued to paint. His last exhibition was in 1948, just before his death, at the Chicago Galleries Association. He died during a family reunion.<ref name="P" />
==References==
==Further reading==
* [http://bit.ly/2VPTDoP Detailed biography] @ the Illinois Historical Art Project
* Wendy Greenhouse, "Frank C. Peyraud", in ''Chicago Modern, 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New'' (exhibition catalog), [[Terra Museum of American Art]], 2004 ISBN 978-0-932171-41-2
==External links==
* [http://bit.ly/2HIN11p "Artists of Chicago, Past and Present"] by [[C. J. Bulliet]]. #5, Frank Charles Peyraud
* [http://bit.ly/2VPAsLY More works by Peyraud] @ ArtNet
[[Category:1858 births]]
[[Category:1948 deaths]]
[[Category:American painters]]
[[Category:American landscape painters]]
[[Category:Swiss emigrants to the United States]]
'''Frank Charles Peyraud''' (1 June 1858, [[Bulle, Switzerland]] - 1 May 1948, [[Highland Park, Illinois]])<ref name="P">Biography by Nancy Peyraud @ the Illinois Historical Art Project,</ref> was an American landscape painter of French-Swiss origin. He worked in a modified [[Impressionistic]] style and was one of the first artists to focus on landscapes in the Midwest.
==Biography==
He displayed an early interest in art, but his father advised him to pursue a more practical education. He began his preliminary studies for architecture at the [[Collège Saint-Michel]], and completed them, rather perfunctorily, at the [[ETH Zurich|Polytechnikum]] in [[Zürich]].<ref name="P" /> Later, at the urging of friends, he spent two years at the [[École des Beaux Arts]] in Paris.
[[File:Frank Charles Peyraud - Summer.jpg|thumb|275px|left|Summer]]
In 1881, at the age of twenty-two, for reasons unknown, he went to the United States with his brother Paul and decided that Chicago would be a good place for an architect. He was, however, initially employed as a [[cyclorama]] painter, having been rejected by the architectural firm of [[William Le Baron Jenney]], apparently due to inadequate English language skills.<ref name="S">[http://bit.ly/2HCijap Biography] @ the Schwartz Collection.</ref> Soon, he began studies at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]]; participating in their first exhibit in 1888.<ref name="N">[http://bit.ly/2VNyHyF Biography] @ ArtNet.</ref>
In 1891, he became involved in retouching a famous [[panorama]] by [[Paul Philippoteaux]] depicting the "[[Gettysburg Cyclorama|The Battle of Gettysburg]]", when it was being prepared for an exhibit in Chicago. He continued to perform this type of work throughout the 1900s and was involved in several projects that did not come to fruition. He never took it seriously and referred to it as "potboiling".<ref name="A">[http://bit.ly/2HCLjyS Biography] @ AskArt.</ref> That same year, he and the landscape painter, Arthur Feudel (1857-1929) established a studio in [[Rockford, Illinois|Rockford]]. He also painted murals; notably in 1896 at the new [[Peoria, Illinois|Peoria]] Public Library, together with Hardesty Gilmore Maratta (1864-1924), an artist and paint manufacturer.<ref name="A" /> For several years after, he returned there periodically to teach drawing classes.<ref name="S" />
He was a charter member of the [[Chicago Society of Artists]], and helped found the Cosmopolitan Club and the [[Society of Western Artists (1896-1914)|Society of Western Artists]].<ref name= "N" />
His first wife, Angela Morand, also an emigrant from Switzerland, whom he had married in 1885, died in 1899 of [[tuberculosis]].<ref name="P" /> In 1906, he married Elizabeth Krysher (1872-1961), a portrait painter and illustrator.<ref name="A" /> In 1919, they settled in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago, but also travelled extensively.<ref name="S" /> In 1921, he returned to Switzerland with his wife and stayed there for three years, once again travelling, throughout Europe, before coming back to Chicago.
[[File:Frank Charles Peyraud - October.jpg|thumb|300px|October]]
Despite failing eyesight, he continued to paint. His last exhibition was in 1948, just before his death, at the Chicago Galleries Association. He died during a family reunion.<ref name="P" />
==References==
==Further reading==
* [http://bit.ly/2VPTDoP Detailed biography] @ the Illinois Historical Art Project
* Wendy Greenhouse, "Frank C. Peyraud", in ''Chicago Modern, 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New'' (exhibition catalog), [[Terra Museum of American Art]], 2004 ISBN 978-0-932171-41-2
==External links==
* [http://bit.ly/2HIN11p "Artists of Chicago, Past and Present"] by [[C. J. Bulliet]]. #5, Frank Charles Peyraud
* [http://bit.ly/2VPAsLY More works by Peyraud] @ ArtNet
[[Category:1858 births]]
[[Category:1948 deaths]]
[[Category:American painters]]
[[Category:American landscape painters]]
[[Category:Swiss emigrants to the United States]]
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