Frederick Arthur Bridgman was born in the southern state of Alabama, the son of a Bostonian doctor prior to the civil war. After witnessing the slave markets as a child, Bridgman became an anti-colonialist. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and shortly after went to work for the American Banknote Company. Unhappy with this direction, Bridgman won a grant which allowed him to travel to Paris where he studied art under Jean Léon Gérôme.
Bridgman made his first trips east in the 1870's and 80's, traveling to Algeria and Egypt. His Paris studios were filled with souvenirs from his voyages and he dressed himself in Oriental costume. Bridgman married Flornce Mott Baker, daughter of a wealthy American family which allowed him the luxury of not having to sell his paintings though he continued to paint daily. As an amateur photographer, Bridgman worked primarily from his own photographs.
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Bridgman was a regular contributor to the Paris Salons, the Pientres Orientalistes Francais and the Royal Academy in London. He remarried and after World War I relocated to Normandy where he continued t paint Orientalist subjects from memory. Frederick Arthur Bridgman died in Rouen in 1928.Museums: Frederick Arthur Bridgman may be found at the Dahesh Museum of Art, New York.
Frederick Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847-1928) was an American artist, born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Bridgman was the son of a doctor, and became among the United States' most familiar and esteemed artists. He became recognised as among the world's most gifted Orientalist painters.
He started as a draftsman in New York City, for the American Bank Note Company during 1864-1865, and was educated in art in this time with the Brooklyn Art Association and also at the National Academy of Design; however he traveled to Paris in 1866 and would become a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme. Paris then grew to be his headquarters. A visit to Egypt during 1873-1874 led to paintings of the East that drew in quick attention, and his great and significant piece, The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile, in the Paris Salon, purchased by James Gordon Bennett, landed him the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
During 1867, Bridgman went in the studio of the illustrious academic artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, as he became profoundly molded by Gérôme's accurate draftsmanship, fluid finishes, and interest for Middle-Eastern scenes. Bridgman later even become titled "the American Gérôme." Not a simple imitator, all the same, Bridgman would afterward assume a further realistic touch, accenting brilliant colors and aesthetic brushwork.
Bridgman took his initial visit to North Africa between 1872 and 1874, splitting his time from Algeria and Egypt. Here he accomplished about three hundred studies, that would become the origin material for many following oil paintings. More travels to to the area throughout the 1870s and 1880s enabled him to accumulate a collection of costumes, architectural bits, and pieces of art that frequently appear in his art works. Humorously, John Singer Sargent marked that Bridgman's packed studio, as well as the Eiffel Tower, embodied Paris's must-see attractions. Although Bridgman retained a lifetime association with France, his popularity in America never declined. So, in 1890, the painter gave a one-man exhibit of more than four hundred pictures in New York's 5th Avenue art gallery. Once the show proceeded to Chicago's Art Institute, it held only three hundred pieces - stating to the good volume of sales Bridgman had earned.
Frederick Arthur Bridgman Selected Paintings & Works
- A bistro in Algiers 1884- A Coffee House, Algeria
- A Pool in the Garden of a Mosque
- A Warrior's Tale
- Abu Simbel 1874
- After the Bath
- After the Gala 1883
- Afternoon Haircut
- Afternoon on our Lake
- Afternoon on the balcony 1901
- Alger 1886
- Algerian Girl 1888
- Algerian Mother and Child 1923
- Algerian woman from Tlemcen 1887
- Algiers 1886
- Algiers 1920
- An Arab Cafe
- An Arab Smoking 1877
- An Arab village 1879
- An Arab watering his horse by a river c.1890-1900
- An eastern courtyard
- An eastern Veranda
- An Odalisque 1884
- Antikisierende erotische Szene 1910
- Apollon enlevant Cyrène 1872
- Après le bain
- Arab Cloisters 1885
- Arab Courtyard 1873
- Arab horsemen on the algerian coast
- Arab Horses watering at a Fountain in a Square
- Arab Interior at Biskra: Women weaving the Burnoose 1880
- Arab women at the town wall 1925
- Arab women on a rooftop, Algiers beyond
- Arabische Marktszene
- Art-Dramatis
- At Rest outside the City Walls
- At the Fountain, Algiers
- At the Oasis
- At the Running Brook
- At the Souk
- At the Well
- Au Caire: chevaux barbes
- Awaiting Orders 1881
- Bab-el-Oued
- Barbary Horses at Cairo
- Basses Pyrénées 1872
- Bassin, environs d'Alger 1898
- Bazaar Gossip 1874
- Beauté à l'éventail
- Bei einer Oase
- Blick auf Tunis
- Bord de mer à Beaulieu
- Bord de mer à Tipasa 1904
- Bord de mer, Algérie 1898
- Bou-Saada 1920
- Boy with a Hoop Standing on a Garden Path 1910
- Brittany peasant
- By the City Gate
- Café au Caire 1925
- Café Biskra
- Cairo Donkeys 1925
- Calm: coast of Algiers
- Caravane au bord de l'oued 1925
- Cavaliers arabes et lavandière au bord d'un oued
- Cerf allant se désaltérer
- Chameliers au bord de l'Oued 1923
- Chaumière près de la rivière
- Chevaux s'abreuvant à la fontaine sur une place
- Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae 1896
- Coastal landscape in North Africa
- Conversation au jardin 1927
- Conversation devant un portail 1923
- Conversation galante dans une ruelle 1880
- Corner of the Bazaar
- Coucher de soleil 1904
- Courtyard in Algeria 1883
- Cows in a wooded Pasture
- Crashing Waves
- Crossing an Oasis, with the Atlas Mountains in the distance, Morocco 1919
- Danseuse Ouled Nail: Touggourt
- Day of the Phrophet, Oued-el-Kebir, Blidah
- Design for the Decoration of an Aeolian Harp 1871
- Devant le café à Biskra
- Domestic interior scene
- Donkey Boy
- Egyptian Dancer Greek Dancer 1881
- Elegant Ladies sewing on a Verandah
- Enfant et son âne un jour de fête
- Entrance to a mosque
- Felouques
- Felouques sur le Nil
- Felslandschaft
- Femme accoudée à l'intérieur du Riad 1886
- Femme dans un patio 46x54
- Femmes algériennes jouant de la musique c.1882
- Femmes brodant sur une terrasse, Alger
- Femmes tissant le burnous à Biskra 1880
- Fête du Pharaon au Temple d'Abou-Simbel
- Fighting Bears 1867
- Fountain of Birkadem, Algiers 1886
- Funérailles d'une momie 187- 1877
- Game of Chess
- Going to the Bath on Rue du Sphinx, Algiers 1887
- Greek Girls on the Seashore
- Guerrier arabe au bord de l'oued
- Halloween
- Halt at Tangiers 1884
- Halte devant le café à Biskra
- Harem Scene 1901
- Head of a caravan, Biskra, Algiers
- Head of a young boy with turban
- Horseman in a Courtyard
- Horsemen in Algiers
- Horsemen on a coastal Path, Algiers
- Idle Moments, An Arab Courtyard
- Il mercato delle schiave
- In a garden at Mustapha
- In a mosque 1876
- In a village at El Biar, Algiers 1889
- In the Courtyard
- In the Cove
- In the desert
- In the Garden 1920
- In the Seraglio 1901
- In the Souk
- Intérieur de maison à Alger 1886
- Intérieur d'église en Bretagne
- Intérieur du Palais Ottoman d'Alger 1872
- Intérieur d'une mosquée, Constantine 1879
- Interieur einer Moschee
- Jardin de la mosquée 1898
- Jardin fleuri
- Jardin oriental, projet pour l'affiche d'une exposition
- Jeune femme à la gazelle dans un patio
- Jeune femme rousse se reposant
- Jeune orientale et sa biche au patio
- Kalifornische Felslandschaft
- La belle orientale
- La belle orientale 1882
- La Cigale 1882
- La cueillette des rhododendrons
- La favorite dans son palais 1886
- La ferme bretonne
- La fête à Blidah
- La fontaine
- La jeune mauresque, Campagne d'Alger
- La maison fleurie en Normandie 1910
- La Messe en Bretagne
- La Nubie
- La porte ouverte
- La porteuse d'eau
- La rêverie
- La sortie du bain
- La traversée de l'oued
- La vague 1893
- Last glow: Tangiers
- Laundress, Normandy
- Lavandière
- Lawn Tennis Club 1891
- Le Bazar
- Le Bivouac
- Le chameau blanc
- Le gué, Pyrénées 1872
- Le marchand d'oranges 1920
- Le parvis de l'Eglise de Quimperlé
- Le port de Beaulieu 1918
- Le réveil
- Le Ruisseau 1898
- Le ruisseau 1898
- Le silence du soir: Alger
- Le Temple d'Abou-Simbel 1874
- Le vieux pont Normandie
- Le village 1885
- Leading the Horse from Stable
- Learning the Qur'an 1921
- Les Aissouas, étude pour la fête de Blidah
- Les bacchantes
- Les femmes d'Alger 1926
- Les foins
- Les lavandières
- Les voisines, terrasses d'Alger
- L'heure dunthé
- L'indolence
- L'oasis
- L'oasis
- L'oued animé
- Marchandes devant une buvette
- Marine à Beaulieu 1918
- Marine 1912
- Market day at Dakken Nubia 1876
- Marketplace in North Africa
- Maternité 1874
- Maternité 1878
- Memnon, Thebes
- Mosquée à Constantine 1874
- Musical Idyll 1871
- Near the Kasbah 1881
- Nomades faisant rôtir un mouton 1893
- Nomades 1893
- North African Countryard 1886
- North African Market 1923
- North African Plaza c.1905
- North African Scene with Figures Along a Tributary
- Nu au guéridon
- Nu au guéridon
- Nude reclining 1880
- Odaliske und Dienerin
- Odalisque 1878
- On the Balcony
- On the Coast of Kabylie
- On the Patio 1921
- On the Terrace
- On the Terrace, Marrakesh
- Oriental Beauty in a Garden
- Oriental Beauty
- Orientale à l'éventail 1895
- Orientalische Flusslandschaft
- Orientalist Interior 1900
- Outside the Mosque
- Outside the Mosque
- Palaquin rouge à Bou-Saâda
- Paysage animé d'Afrique du Nord
- Paysage breton
- Paysage de campagne c.1890
- Paysage de Pont-Aven 1870
- Paysage des Alpes 1883
- Peasant Boy
- Personnage traversant la casbah d'Alger 1886
- Pharoah and his Army engulfed by the red Sea 1900
- Plage animée à Tolga 1880
- Plowing the Field
- Pont-Aven 1870
- Portrait of a Boy named Ray 1891
- Portrait of a Child 1910
- Portrait of a Lady
- Portrait of a Man 1884
- Portrait of a Young Lady in Front of an Apple Tree
- Portrait of a Young Woman 1882
- Portrait of Ray 1891
- Prayer beside a tomb 1886
- Preparing for a Bath
- Près de la porte de la ville
- Procession devant l'église de Quimperlé
- Procession du Taureau Sacré Apis
- Reclining oriental Beauty 1877
- Reclining Woman
- Relaxing among trees and flowers
- Remembrance, Algiers 1920
- Retour de chasse
- Return from the Masked Ball, Monte Carlo
- Rêverie
- Ricin en fleur dans le sud Algérien
- Riding through an Oasis
- River Landscape with Deer
- River Landscape
- Rocky Gorge River Valley
- Rue dans la casbah d'Alger
- Rue dans le Vieux Nice 1917
- Rue Droite, dans le Vieux Nice
- Sandstorm in Biskya
- Sans titre 1922
- Scène de labour
- Scène de marché 1923
- Scène de rue 1874
- Scène d'oasis
- Small Entrance to the Mosque de la Pecherie
- Soir d'été 1888 203.8x98.4
- Spain in the Days of the Moors c.1910
- Springtime at the River's Edge 1915
- Street Scene in Algeria
- Summer Evening 1888
- Tête à tête c.1878-1882
- The Arab Encampment
- The Bather
- The bathing Beauties 1872
- The Bridal Caravan
- The Caravan 1925
- The Card Players
- The Chess Players 1924
- The Crossing 1912
- The Day of the Prophet, Blidah, Algeria 1900
- The Desert Winds Simoon
- The Diligence 1878
- The First Steps 1878
- The Fountain of Birkadam, Algiers
- The Glance 1887
- The Harem Beauty
- The Harem Boats
- The Harem 1904
- The Laborer
- The Nubian Dessert
- The Nubian Story Teller In the Harem 1875
- The Odalisque 1900
- The Orange Seller 1873
- The Orange Seller 1920
- The pharoah's captives
- The Ploughman 1915 58x85
- The Procession of the sacred Bull Apis
- The Queen of the Brigands c.1870
- The Rendez-vous 1882
- The Rug Merchant
- The Seamstress 1876
- The seaweed Gatherers 1912
- The Stream at Divonne
- The Water Carrier
- The Well at Bal-El-Oued
- The young Prodigy, Algiers 1873
- Three Norns 1904
- Two Women of Algiers
- Two Women
- Un bois secret a secret Wood 1900
- Une rue de la casbah d'Alger
- Veiled Beauty of Constantinople 1880
- View of the Town of Amalfi along the Amalfi Coast c.1900
- Voilier dans un baie à Alger 1905
- Voiliers près de la plage
- Vue d'Alger
- Vues de Bou-Saada 1920
- Washerwomen Along a River
- Water Carrier and His Family
- Woman in white holding yellow Roses 1903
- Woman on the Stairwell 1882
- Women at a Cemetery, Algiers 1920
- Women at Algiers
- Women by the fire
- Women drawing Water from the Nile
- Women in Briska weaving the Burnoose
- Women of Algiers
- Women washing Clothes in a Stream 1921
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