Artist

Frederick F. Fursman

born El Paso, IL 1874-died Saugatuck, MI 1943
Also known as
  • Frederick Frary Fursman
  • Frederick Fursman
Born
El Paso, Illinois, United States
Died
Saugatuck, Michigan, United States
Biography

Frederick “Fursie” Fursman studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and in France before establishing himself as a painter and teacher in Chicago and Milwaukee. He started Michigan’s Saugatuck Summer School of Painting in 1910 and remained its director for the next thirty years, influencing many young American artists. He thought Saugatuck’s surroundings were “as charming as its name” and encouraged his students to paint their models outdoors. (McCauley, “The Saugatuck Artists’ Colony,” Christian Science Monitor, August 2, 1923)

Works by this artist (2 items)

Robert Havell, Jr., Panoramic View of New York, 1844, hand-colored aquatint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of International Business Machines Corporation, 1966.48.77
Panoramic View of New York
Artist
Date1844
hand-colored aquatint on paper
Not on view
John James Audubon, Robert Havell, Jr., Frigate Pelican, from the book Birds of America, 1835, hand-colored engraving and aquatint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Robert Tyler Davis Memorial Fund, 1980.91
Frigate Pelican, from the book Birds of America
Artist
Date1835
hand-colored engraving and aquatint on paper
Not on view