Gideon Jacques Denny(1830-1886) was a marine artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware on July 15, 1830. As a young man, he worked on ships in the Chesapeake Bay. He traveled to California in 1849 with the Gold Rush. He worked as a teamster on the San Francisco docks and was a member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. After two years in California, he moved to Milwaukee, where he studied painting with Samuel Marsden Brookes. After six years of study in Milwaukee, Denny returned to San Francisco and established a studio on Bush Street. In 1862, Brooks moved to San Francisco and shared a studio with Denny. In 1868, Denny spent two months in Hawaii visiting several islands. He is also known to have visited Canada and South America. Denny died of malaria in Cambria, California on Oct. 7, 1886. The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Bishop Museum (Honolulu), the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, California), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California are among the public collections holding works by Gideon Jacques Denny. | |||
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Shipwrecked figures signaling to a distant sailing ship, oil painting by Gideon Jacques Denny ID de tableau:: 74089 Voir la galerie dans Suède |
Shipwrecked figures signaling to a distant sailing ship, oil painting by Gideon Jacques Denny Shipwrecked figures signaling to a distant sailing ship, oil painting by Gideon Jacques Denny cjr Shipwrecked_figures_signaling_to_a_distant_sailing_ship,_oil_painting_by_Gideon_Jacques_Denny cjr |
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Waikiki Beach, ID de tableau:: 75652 Voir la galerie dans Suède |
Waikiki Beach, Waikiki Beach, oil on canvas painting by Gideon Jacques Denny, 1868 cjr Waikiki_Beach,_oil_on_canvas_painting_by_Gideon_Jacques_Denny,_1868 cjr |
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Waikiki Beach ID de tableau:: 77454 Voir la galerie dans Suède |
Waikiki Beach oil on canvas painting by Gideon Jacques Denny, 1868 Date 1868(1868) cyf oil_on_canvas_painting_by_Gideon_Jacques_Denny,_1868_ Date_1868(1868) _ cyf |
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Shipwrecked figures signaling to a distant sailing ship ID de tableau:: 82376 Voir la galerie dans Suède |
Shipwrecked figures signaling to a distant sailing ship Date Unknown cyf Date_Unknown _cyf |
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| (1830-1886) was a marine artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware on July 15, 1830. As a young man, he worked on ships in the Chesapeake Bay. He traveled to California in 1849 with the Gold Rush. He worked as a teamster on the San Francisco docks and was a member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. After two years in California, he moved to Milwaukee, where he studied painting with Samuel Marsden Brookes. After six years of study in Milwaukee, Denny returned to San Francisco and established a studio on Bush Street. In 1862, Brooks moved to San Francisco and shared a studio with Denny. In 1868, Denny spent two months in Hawaii visiting several islands. He is also known to have visited Canada and South America. Denny died of malaria in Cambria, California on Oct. 7, 1886. The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Bishop Museum (Honolulu), the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, California), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California are among the public collections holding works by Gideon Jacques Denny. | ||||||||||
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