Federick Frieseke Originally from Owasso, Michigan, Frieseke received his first artistic training at the Art Institute of Chicago. He later took classes in New York at the Art Students League, before traveling to Paris in 1898. In 1900, Frieseke began to summer in the French town of Giverny, where Impressionist master, Claude Money, had already settled. Despite the proximity to Monet, Frieseke's paintings of large, rounded women display closer ties to the work of Auguste Renoir. Frieseke is considered the leader of "The Giverny Group"--the second generation of American painters who resided in the artist colony. Other members of the circle include Richard E. Miller, Lawton Parker, Guy Rose, Edmund Greacen, and Karl Anderson. Frieseke was enamored with Europe and spent much time traversing the Atlantic Ocean during his life. Although he denied official expatriation, Frieseke spent the majority of his life in Europe, dying in France in 1939.

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