Quidor, John

Quidor, John

▪ American painter
born January 26, 1801, Tappan, New York, U.S.
died December 13, 1881, Jersey City, New Jersey
 American genre painter and artisan. In 17 of his approximately 35 paintings he depicted subjects from Washington Irving's stories: e.g., the paintings Ichabod Crane at the Van Tassel's Ball (1855), The Money Diggers (1832), and Rip Van Winkle (1829).

      At age nine Quidor moved with his family to New York City. He began his career as a painter of tavern signs, parade pennants, and fire engines. Such activities seem to have occupied him throughout his life, for his easel production was small and intermittent. In addition to Irving's works, Quidor used themes from the Bible, Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote, and James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. His literary paintings were not illustrative; he took fanciful literature as a starting point for an intensely personal interpretation of subject and mood that frequently satirized the social customs and prejudices of his age. He also painted occasional landscapes of the Hudson River valley.

      Quidor achieved humour and power through dramatic gesture and exaggerated expression, so much so that it has been suggested that he painted from theatrical productions. He used colour and shadow to convey an often-foreboding sense of atmosphere. Although he received appreciative reviews from contemporary critics, his extraordinary and unrealistic style had little impact on his colleagues, and his work was cooly received at exhibitions. Twentieth-century art historians, however, have reclaimed him as one of the more intriguing and personal American artists of the 19th century.

Additional Reading
John I.H. Baur, John Quidor, 1801–1881 (1942); Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, John Quidor (1965?).

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