Homer Boss

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Homer Dean Boss
Born1882
Blandford, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died1956
Santa Cruz, New Mexico, U.S.
Occupation(s)Painter, printmaker, art instructor
SpouseSuzanne/Susan Kutka Boss (married 1927)
Children0
RelativesAnne Kutka McCosh (sister-in-law) David McCosh (brother-in-law)

Homer Boss (1882–1956) was a painter, printmaker and advanced art instructor of the early 20th century Modern art movement in America.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] He first taught at the Henri School of Art in 1909. Boss ended up purchasing the school in 1910 from his former teacher, Robert Henri, and later renamed it the Independent School of Art.[11] Among those that gave Boss accolades for their own success was famed Brazilian modernist Anita Malfatti, and many of her most lauded paintings were created during this period while she was under his instruction.[12] Boss later taught for two decades at the Art Students League of New York where he met his future wife, Suzanne Kutka. He also taught at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later known as the Parsons School of Design) and for a few years at the New York School of Applied Design for Women. Boss had a studio in Santa Cruz, New Mexico for the remaining 25 years of his life and it was there that he painted many of his most famous landscapes, as well as portraits of American Indians.[13][14]

His oil paintings have appeared in many exhibitions, including the original Armory Show of 1913[15] and the 1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition of 1963.[16] Boss illustrated two books by German author Waldemar Bonsels: the children's book Maya the Bee (1912) and the young adult book Heaven Folk (1915).[17] His wood cuts, portraits and landscapes can be found in many prestigious museums including a full length portrait, among others, at the Chazen Museum of Art[18] on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a woodcut in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.[19] Some other galleries with Boss works in their permanent collections include the Baltimore Museum of Art,[20] Denver Art Museum,[21] Georgia Museum of Art,[22] Hunter Museum of American Art,[23] Mennello Museum of American Art,[24] New Mexico Museum of Art,[25] Philadelphia Museum of Art,[26] and the National Arts Club.[27]

Further reading[edit]

  • Wilfer, Joseph (1978). Homer Boss: American Painter 1882–1956: A Traveling Exhibition. Madison, Wisconsin: Madison Art Center. OCLC 8712964.
  • Udell, Susan S. (1994). Homer Boss: The Figure and the Land. Madison, Wisconsin: Elvehjem Museum of Art. ISBN 9780932900364. OCLC 644834774.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Homer Dean Boss - art auction records". www.askart.com. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  2. ^ "Homer Boss Online". www.artcyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  3. ^ "Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico files, 1897-1984 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  4. ^ "Stewart Klonis papers, 1886-1982 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  5. ^ "A Finding Aid to the A. S. Baylinson papers, 1929-1955 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  6. ^ "Girl in Black - Homer Boss". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  7. ^ Wisconsin poets at the Elvehjem Museum of Art. Elvehjem Museum of Art. [Madison, Wisconsin]. 1995. ISBN 0-932900-38-0. OCLC 32746188.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. ^ "Homer Dean Boss Biography, Auction Records, Buying Homer Dean Boss Paintings". Taos and Santa Fe Painters. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  9. ^ "Homer Dean Boss (1882-1956) Biography". Medicinemangallery.com. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  10. ^ "SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System". siris-artinventories.si.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  11. ^ Boss, Homer (1994). Homer Boss : the figure and the land. Susan S. Udell, Elvehjem Museum of Art. Madison, Wis.: Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. ISBN 0-932900-36-4. OCLC 30474733.
  12. ^ "An Atlantic Connection: Anita Malfatti's Contributions to Modernist Art". www.lehman.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  13. ^ "Homer Boss". Espanola Valley News. Espanola, New Mexico. January 18, 1956. p. 1. Retrieved February 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Artist Dies at His Home". Albuquerque Journal. Albuquerque, New Mexico. January 17, 1956. p. 2. Retrieved February 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "xroads.virginia.edu". xroads.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  16. ^ Jaffe, Irma B.; Brown, Milton W. (September 1964). "The Story of the Armory Show". The Art Bulletin. 46 (3): 420. doi:10.2307/3048200. ISSN 0004-3079. JSTOR 3048200.
  17. ^ "The Adventures of Maya the Bee from Project Gutenberg". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  18. ^ "Young Woman in Black | 935". Chazen Museum of Art. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  19. ^ "Homer Boss". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved February 29, 2020.
  20. ^ "Rider on the Mesa". collection.artbma.org. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  21. ^ "Search | Denver Art Museum". www.denverartmuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  22. ^ "Young Woman in Blue and Gold, (painting)". siris-artinventories.si.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  23. ^ "Homer Boss – Artists – eMuseum". emuseum.huntermuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  24. ^ "Mennello Museum of American Art | City of Orlando". www.mennellomuseum.org. 10 July 2020. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  25. ^ "Pueblo Indian". sam.nmartmuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  26. ^ "Los Caballos". philamuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  27. ^ "The Collection - The National Arts Club". www.nationalartsclub.org. Retrieved 2023-02-21.


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