Louis Ritman Born in Kamenets-Podolsky, Russia in 1889, Louis Ritman became a leading American impressionist painter in the early 20th century. He and his family emigrated to America around the turn of the century, settling in Chicago. After studying in Chicago and briefly in Philadelphia, Ritman set sail for Paris in 1909 in order to enroll at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. In 1911, Ritman visited Giverny for the first time, where he first met Frederick Frieseke and Richard E. Miller to whose work Ritman's paintings are often compared. He spent much of the next two decades in the artist colony executing the pictures for which he is now revered--mainly women in and outdoors rendered in thick, divisionist daubs of bright paint. Eventually Ritman was persuaded to accept a teaching position at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930. He resided in the city for the remaining thirty years of his career. He died in Winona, Minnesota.

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