biographie de Edward BRUCE (1879-1943)

Birth place: Dover Plains, NY

Death place: Hollywood, FL

Addresses: Wash., DC; NYC; Manila; California, 1929-1933

Profession: Painter; art administrator

Studied: Columbia Law School, 1904; Italy, early 1920s

Exhibited: PAFA, 1928, 1933-42; CI, 1929 (hon. men.); AIC; Painters and Sculptors of Los Angeles, 1930; San Fran. AA, 1930; Calif. AC, 1931; Gump's, San Fran.,1931(solo); Corcoran Biennials, 1930-43; WMAA, 1932-40; Salons of Am. Awards: Columbia Univ. Medal for Excellence, 1937; Friedsam Gold Medal, 1938 (awarded by the Architectural League).

Member: ANA, 1935; Nat. Inst. A. & L.; Cosmos Club, 1934-43.

Work: Luxembourg Gal., Paris; Phillips Mem. Gal., Wash., DC; Honolulu Acad. FA.; Fogg Mus., Harvard; CGA; WMAA; SFMA

Comments: After a successful career as a lawyer and businessman, he went to Italy for 6 years and started painting there, returning to the U.S. in 1929. After living in California, he came to Wash., DC in 1933 to organize the Public Works of Art Project. In 1940 he was appointed to the Commission on Fine Arts by Franklin Roosevelt. Position: chief, Sect. FA, WPA.

Sources: WW40; Hughes, Artists in California, 76; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.