Fleischer Museum
American Collection of Impressionism
The California School

The scion of a wealthy landowning family, Guy Rose was born in the Los Angeles suburb of San Gabriel. He began his art studies at the California School of Design in San Francisco under Emil Carlsen. In 1888, he went to Paris where he studied for three years under Benjamin Constant, Lucien Doucet and Jules Lefebvre. He returned to America and lived and worked in New York as an illustrator for Harpers Magazine. Rose was plagued throughout his life by a susceptibility to lead poisoning, a serious predicament since many oil paints of the day were based on lead white. Thus for the greater part of his life and the peak of his career, he was unable to paint in oils. It is a tragic irony that Rose, generally recognized as one of the best of the American Impressionists, was also the least prolific and his works are very scarce. From 1904 to 1912, Rose and his wife Ethel, also a successful artist, lived as neighbors to Claude Monet in the little village of Giverny. Rose's friendship with Monet is clearly seen in the striking similarity of each artist's work. Rose also adopted Monet's method of painting a series of paintings of the same scene, each set at a slightly different time of day. San Gabriel Mission, 28.75"X23.75" O/C In 1912, Rose returned to New York and in 1914 came back to live in Los Angeles. He painted SAN GABRIEL MISSION soon after his return. Between 1914 and about 1921, when he suffered a stroke which left him unable to paint, he travelled throughout California. MIST OVER POINT LOBOS, one of a series of the Carmel-Monterey area, was painted about 1918. Mist Over Point Lobos, 28.5"x24" O/C,