William posey silva artist
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WILLIAM POSEY SILVA
A landscape painter, William Silva was an important art world figure in Tennessee and also in California, where he moved in 1913 and for thirty-five years devoted himself to painting cypresses, eucalypti, dunes, and coasts.
He was born in Savannah, Georgia, and studied at Chatham Academy and engineering at the University of Virginia. He inherited the family chinaware business, which he ran successfully for thirty years until he began painting at age 50.
In 1887, he moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and there became known as “the finest artist at the turn of the century” (Gerdts Art Across America, V III). He painted in an impressionist style and did many panoramic views of Chattanooga as well as paintings of the pine forests near Savannah. Initially he pursued his chinaware business there, but in 1894, began to take art instruction.
Encouraged by his wife, he retired from his business in 1907 and enrolled at the Academy Julian in Paris as a student of Jean Paul Laurens. He also painted with American artist Chauncey Ryder. Recognition came quickly, and he had his first solo exhibition in 1909 in Paris at the Georges Petit Gallery.
That same year he returned to Chattanooga, and a moment of great fame was the winning of the silver medal in 1910
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William Posey Silva
American painter
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Biography
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Willliam Posey Silva was born in Savannah, Georgia, but spent most of his early life in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he ran his family's hardware business. Although he had exhibited paintings as a teenager, he did not take up art seriously until he was about fifty years old, at which time he sold his business and moved to Paris to study painting. Within two years his paintings were good enough to be accepted at the Paris Salon. Upon his return to the United States he settled in Washington, D.C. and had exhibitions of his paintings in Boston, Charleston, and Knoxville. A visit to Carmel in 1913 persuaded Silva to move there, and he built a studio near the ocean which he occupied for the rest of his career. From this home base Silva made frequent trips east and abroad. In 1922-23 he revisited Europe and painted in England, France, Italy and Spain. In 1924 he was back in Charleston and painting at Magnolia Gardens. A true impressionist who admired the works of Monet and Manet, Silva worked outdoors, striving to capture the bright vigor of nature in broad, colorful swatches of paint.
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