Robert Reid

Robert Reid
Haeseler Photographic Studios, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Public domain

(1862–1929) American artist (1862-1929)

Robert Reid (USA, 1862–1929) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Robert Reid belongs to the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’ in this site’s history of art.

Robert Reid was born in Stockbridge and died in Clifton Springs. Robert Reid trained at Académie Julian. The teachers included Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. Robert Reid worked in Netherlands. Wikidata associates Robert Reid with Impressionism. Robert Reid became a member of Ten American Painters and American Academy of Arts and Letters. Robert Reid was awarded Hallgarten Prize.

The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 23 works by Robert Reid with free images. The dated works span the years 1888–1929. Works by Robert Reid are held by several collections, among them Smithsonian American Art Museum, Reading Public Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, and Brooklyn Museum. Wikidata links 2 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Impressionism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Eugène Jansson, Gustav Klimt, James Jebusa Shannon, Arthur Bowen Davies, and Wilhelm Degode.