Guy Rose (1867 - 1925) American. Watercolor on Paper. Measure 10 1/2"in H x 9 3/4"in W and 17"in H x 15 3/4"in W with frame. Guy Orlando Rose was born March 3, 1867, in San Gabriel, California. He was the seventh child of Leonard John Rose and Amanda Jones Rose. His father was a prominent California senator. He and his wife raised their large family on an expansive Southern California ranch and vineyard - the San Gabriel Valley town of Rosemead bears the family name. In 1876, Guy Rose was accidentally shot in the face during a hunting trip with his brothers, he was only nine years old. While recovering he began to sketch and use watercolors and oil paints. He graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1884. After graduation he moved to San Francisco where he studied art between 1885 and 1888 at the San Francisco Art Association's California School of Design with Virgil Williams, Warren E. Rollins, and the Danish-born artist Emil Carlsen. In 1886, I have received honorable mentions in both drawing and oil painting; a year later he was given the school's coveted Avery Gold Medal in oil painting and contributed a still life with â€Å“excellent tone” to the Winter Annual of the San Francisco Art Association. On September 12, 1888, Rose enrolled at the Academie Julian in Paris and studied with Benjamin-Constant, Jules Lefebvre, Lucien Doucet, and Jean-Paul Laurens while in Paris. In 1888-89, he won a scholarship at the Académie Delacluse and contributed religious and figural studies as well as landscapes to the Paris Salons in 1890, 1891, 1894, 1900, and 1909. He met fellow students brothers Frank Vincent DuMond and Frederick Melville DuMond at the Academie Julian - Frank Vincent DuMond and Guy Rose were to remain lifelong friends.

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