Frederick R. Wagner (1864 - 1940) American
Gouache on Silk
Measure 6 3/4"in H x 5"in W and 16"in H x 12 3/4"in W with frame

Known for: Marine, urban landscape-genre painting
Biography: Frederick Wagner, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania painter and teacher, was born in Port Kennedy, Pennsylvania in 1864. Wagner enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1878-1884) and was made chief demonstrator of anatomy to the life classes by the Academy. After completing his studies at the Academy where he studied under Thomas Eakins, he traveled west and began painting in California. Upon returning to Philadelphia, he took a job as an illustrator for the Philadelphia Press and was heavily influenced by the Urban Realism propagated by Robert Henri, William Glackens and John Sloan. Wagner often painted impressionist urban scenes of Philadelphia, and like many of his contemporaries, he did work that often portrayed the overwhelming city diminishing the importance and frailty of humanity. He was asked to teach at the Pennsylvania Academy's Chester Springs School and did so for seven years. Around 1912, Wagner opened his studio in Philadelphia and founded the Addingham School of Painting in an old farmhouse, in a colony similar to the one in the New Hope area. His modernist work is also highly sought after by collectors whose interest's center around the artworks created by America's "Avant-Garde" during the late 19th century and first four decades of the 20th century.

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