George Loftus Noyes was a Canadian born artist who gained fame in the early 20th century as an American Impressionist. Noyes was born in Bothwell, Ontario and died in Petersborough, New Hampshire. Noyes' parents were both American citizens. He was a prominent member of the Boston School

Boston School

The Boston School is both a historic group of painters and an ongoing tradition of painting centered around the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Beginning with artists such as Edmund C. Tarbell and William Paxton, a combination of detail, full-range vibrant color, and painting outdoors...

 of American Impressionism

American Impressionism

Impressionism, a style of painting characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors, was practiced widely among American artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.-An emerging artistic style from Paris:...

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He studied at the Massachusetts Normal School with George Bartlett in the early 1880s and in France at the Académie Colarossi

Académie Colarossi

The Académie Colarossi is an art school founded by the Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi. First located on the Île de la Cité, it moved in the 1870s to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the VIe arrondissement of Paris, France....

 in Paris between 1890-93. Jean Andre Rixens influenced him to a huge degree. Rixen particularly influenced the artist's still life painting.

He was a highly respected landscape and still life painter in Boston in the early 1900s. His prominence faded after his death, but the quality of his work has recently been gaining increasing recognition.

Noyes exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

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 and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.. He was a member of several Art associations, including the North Shore Art Association

North Shore Art Association

The North Shore Art Association of East Gloucester, Massachusetts is one of the oldest art associations in the United States. Founded in 1922, it was the gathering place of some of the great American Artists of the 20th century....

, the Boston Art Society, and the Guild of Boston Artists.

In 1901, Noyes taught during the summer in Annisquam, Massachusetts and became an early teacher to Newell Convers Wyeth, father of Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth

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 and grandfather to Jamie Wyeth

Jamie Wyeth

James Browning Wyeth is a contemporary American realist painter. He was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, son of Andrew Wyeth and grandson of N.C. Wyeth...

. N.C Wyeth also studied with Noyes in 1921, saying "His color knowledge is superb and I think he will give me much help at this juncture".

He primarily worked and painted at the Fenway Studios

Fenway Studios

The Fenway Studios are artists' studios located at 30 Ipswich Street, Boston, Massachusetts, now listed as a National Historic Landmark.The studios were built after a disastrous 1904 fire at Harcourt Studios in which many artists lost their homes, studios, and work. Business and civic leaders...

 on 30 Ipswich Street in Boston.

Other prominent Boston artists working at the Fenway Studios in that period include Marion B. Allen, Lilla Cabot Perry

Lilla Cabot Perry

Lilla Cabot Perry was an American artist who worked in the Impressionist style, rendering portraits and landscapes in the free form manner of her mentor, Claude Monet. Perry was an early advocate of the French Impressionist style and contributed to its reception in the United States...

, Joseph Decamp

Joseph DeCamp

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, Philip Hale

Philip Hale

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, Lillian Wescot Hale, Charles Hopkinson

Charles Hopkinson

Charles Sydney Hopkinson was an American portrait painter and landscape watercolorist. He maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in a direct style with a palette gradually lightening through his career. Many of his paintings...

, György Kepes

György Kepes

György Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus in Chicago...

, William Kaula, Lee Lufkin Kaula, Lillian and Leslie Prince Thompson, William Paxton

William Paxton

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, Marion L. Pooke, Edmund Charles Tarbell, and Mary Bradish Titcomb.

A barn fire in 1939 was to destroy literally hundreds of his works, plunging Noyes into a deep depression at the age of 75.