John “Wichita Bill” Noble (1874-1934)
The Basin, Brittany
Reproduction of the original oil painting from Color Magazine, August 1918, 7” x 8 ¼”
Gift of Ciro Galeno, Jr.

Born in Wichita, Kansas in 1874, John “Wichita Bill” Noble (1874-1934) traveled to Paris in 1900, where the exploding turn-of-the-century art scene helped him develop his instinctive sense of color and design. In the summers, he went to Brittany, on the northern coast of France. The sea reminded him of the plains of Kansas, where he was born, and the struggle of the fishermen and their pale grey boat horses inspired him. He became well known in Europe, and when he returned to this country in 1919 after twenty years abroad, he had developed an international reputation for creating paintings that merge atmospheric effects with a stylized sense of design.

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