Daniel Garber

For the professor of philosophy, see Daniel Garber (philosopher).

Daniel Garber
circa 1900
Born	(1880 -04-11)April 11, 1880 North Manchester, Indiana
Died	July 5, 1958(1958-07-05) (aged 78) Cuttalossa, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Education	Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Known for	landscape painter

Daniel Garber (April 11, 1880 – July 5, 1958) was an American Impressionist landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his large impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, in which he often depicted the Delaware River. He also painted figurative interior works and excelled at etching. In addition to his painting career, Garber taught art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for over forty years.

Life

Garber was born on April 11, 1880, in North Manchester, Indiana. He studied art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1899 to 1905. During this time Garber met and married his wife, Mary Franklin, who was also an art student. In the tradition of many American artists, Garber and his wife traveled to Europe to complete his art education. Returning to America in 1907, on the advice of artist William Langson Lathrop he settled at Cuttalossa (Solebury Township, Bucks County) just downriver from Lumberville, Pennsylvania, six miles up the Delaware River from New Hope.

Like most impressionist painters, Garber painted landscapes en plein air, directly from nature. He exhibited his works nationwide and earned numerous awards, including a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) in San Francisco, California. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 1913. Garber died on July 5, 1958, after falling from a ladder at his studio. Today, Garber's paintings are considered by collectors and art historians to be among the finest works produced from the New Hope art colony. His paintings are owned by major museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, the Art Institute of Chicago and Philadelphia Museum of Art. One of Garber's students was artist Delle Miller.

Further reading

• Peterson, Brian H. (Editor) (2002). Pennsylvania Impressionism. Philadelphia: James A. Michener Art Museum and University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3700-9. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
• Lance Humphries (2006). Daniel Garber Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries. ISBN 978-0-9759954-3-3. | Vol. 1
• Lance Humphries (2006). Daniel Garber Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries. ISBN 978-0-9759954-6-4. | Vol. 2
• Lance Humphries (2006). Daniel Garber: His Life and Work. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries. N6537.G37 H86 2006.
• Sullivan, Mark W. The Darby School of Art (Havertown, PA: Brookline Books, 2023)

External links

• Works by or about Daniel Garber at the Internet Archive
• Daniel Garber Biography: Hollis Taggart Galleries Archived 2016-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
• Daniel Garber Catalogue Raisonné Archived 2016-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
• Listing at ArtCyclopedia
• Six exhibition catalogs available from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries.
• American impressionism and realism : a landmark exhibition from the Met, a 1991 exhibition catalog from the Metropolitan Museum of Art libraries
• Works at the Museum Syndicate