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Elliott Daingerfield

Nationality
American
Birth/Death
1859-1932

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The Grand Canyon

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“Fiercely the red sun descending/Burned his way along the heavens”

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Artwork by Elliott Daingerfield
Work of Art
The Grand Canyon

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Elliott Daingerfield grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and later maintained a summer home in the Blue Ridge Mountains. In contrast to earlier generations of landscape painters, he adopted the practice of painting from memory rather than from direct observation, believing art acquired a heightened spirituality when mediated by the imagination. Such qualities are everywhere apparent in The Grand Canyon, one of his most celebrated works.

 

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Elliott Daingerfield (March 26, 1859–1932) was an American artist who lived and worked in North Carolina. He is considered one of North Carolina's most prolific artists. Elliott, the son of a captain in the Confederate Army, was born in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina. At 21, he moved to New York to study art and was apprenticed under Walter Satterlee in 1880. He became an instructor in Satterlee's still life class and studied at the Art Students' League. In 1884, Daingerfield left Satterlee and met George Inness. The works of Inness, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Kenyon Cox "inspired his visionary style", according to the art historian Stephanie J. Fox. Daingerfield was also influenced by the European Symbolists whose work he encountered during his time studying in Europe c. 1897. In the late 1890s he achieved recognition for paintings of religious subjects, an example of which is…