About the Artist
J. Clayton Crouch, American Impressionist
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J. Clayton Crouch, American Impressionist Artist
808 Lee Ave.
Lookout Mtn., TN
37350 USA
Tel. (423)821-3132
Fax.(423)825-5748
claycrouch@summitdevco.com
J. Clayton Crouch has gained a reputation as one of the foremost modern American Impressionists. The majority of American artists who adopted Impressionism in the last decades of the nineteenth century had either studied formally in Paris, or Barbizon, or Giverny, or they had spent sufficient time there to absorb the movement's aesthetic principles. Yet in implementing those tenets, the American Impressionists were inclined to be less doctrinaire in the application of the French Impressionist light and color theory and characteristic brush technique. Like the early masters of American Impressionism, J. Clayton Crouch went to France to study the works of the French Impressionism movement. Often likened to the famed American Impressionist Childe Hassam, Crouch also instills his paintings with a sense of great exuberance and warmth.
The American Impressionist paintings of J. Clayton Crouch are held in private collections worldwide. Of particular importance are series of Impressionist paintings created in Monte Carlo, Cannes, and Nice on the Riviera and in Positano, Sorrento, Amalfi, and Capri, in Italy. His American studies at Boca Raton and Naples, Florida and at Montecito, Santa Barbara, and La Jolla, California have received much acclaim.
As with other masters of French and American Impressionism, Crouch travels a great deal - always in pursuit of new experiences of light.
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