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Gaylord Sangston Truesdell

Gaylord Sangston Truesdell, a celebrated artist, specializing in landscapes, rural scenes, animals, sheep, cows, portraits, Breton country scenes in France, was born January 1, 1850, in Waukegan, Illinois, and died June 13,1899, in New York City. Truesdell was unmarried. He began his career as an engraver, lithographer in St. Louis, Chicago and Philadelphia, studied at the Pennsylvania Acadamy of Art. He went to France in 1885 and studied with Ernest Meissonier, Fernand Cormon and Moreau.

His first exhibit at the French Salon des Champs Elysees was "The Chair Mender" [or "Caning a Chair] in 1886. His painting "There's the Shepherd" received a bronze medal at the Salon in Paris. His "Vaches au Borde de la Riviere" [Cattle at the River's Edge] received the Salon's first gold medal given to an American.  He also painted "Shepherd and His Flock" in 1898.  "Going to the Pasturage" exhibited at the Salon in 1890 was purchased by the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C. and was deaccessioned in 1948. In 1892 he received as second class medal for "The Shepherd's Dinner."

In 1911, the Smithsonian Institution acquired four of Gaylord's painting from Gaylord's brother Julius A. Truesdell. The paintings were listed as:
 * The Shepherd's Lunch
 * The Wayside Shrine
 * After the Rain
 * Changing Pastures

Exhibitions: Columbian Exposition (Chicago), 1893; one man exhibition at the Corcoran Art Gallery, May 1901; one man exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Mar. 1902. Awards: bronze medal at Paris Exposition in 1889; medal (2nd class) Salon de Champs Elysee, Paris 1892 – Hors Concours. Collections: Univ. of Shawnee, OK; Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, MD. Corcoran Gallery of Art, May 13-26, 1901.

Known paintings and approximate dates if known: [Note: Paintings are not always named by the artist, and over time a painting may go by different names assigned by different owners.]
 * Boat Scene
 * Farmer with Cattle
 * Shepherd and Sheep
 * There's the Shepherd
 * The Shepherd's Dinner
 * The Rabbit
 * Coast of Belle Island
 * Moonrise at Sunset
 * Haystacks in a Landscape at Sunset, France
 * 1884, Sheep in a Pasture with Haystacks in the Background
 * 1885, The Chair Mender [or Man Caning a Chair]
 * 1886, Portrait of a Young Woman
 * 1887, The Shepherd and His Watchful Companion
 * 1888, Portrait of a Woman
 * 1889, Going to Pasture [or Going Home?]
 * 1890, The Shepherd and His Flock in a Landscape
 * 1891, Cattle at the River's Edge [Cows Resting Near a Stream?] Signed and dated, Inscribed "Paris, 1891"
 * 1891, Landscape with Shepherd an Sheep
 * 1891, Shepherdess
 * 1892, The Breakers
 * 1893, Portrait of a Breton Woman in a White Lace Cap [signed lower left corner: G. S. Truesdell, 1893]
 * 1893, Canal View with a Windmill
 * 1893, Hurrying Home
 * 1895, Shepherdess and Her Flock, signed lower right, G. S. Truesdell, 1895
 * 1897, Leading the Cattle
 * 1898, Cuttings in the Greenhouse
 * 1898, The Shepherd and His Flock

Additional references to the artist and his works can be found in various sources:


 * 1)   Sale of the Truesdell Paintings [catalog], New York American Art Association [American Art Galleries], 1906, The Research Library of the New York Public Library, Call No. Cp.v.1628, no.4
 * 2)   Who's Who in American Art, 1564-1975, Falk, Peter Hastings
 * 3)   Revisiting the White City, American Art at the 1893 World's Fair, Carr, Carolyn K
 * 4)   American Art at the Paris Salons, Fink, Lois Marie
 * 5)   Paris 1889 [American Artists at the Universal Exposition], Blaugrund, Annetdte
 * 6)   Mantle Fielding's Dictionary [of American painters and sculptors], Opitz, Glen B
 * 7)   Who's Who in American Art, 1898-1947, Falk, Peter Hastings
 * 8)   Recent Ideals of American Art, Sheldon, George William
 * 9)   Exhibition Record, 1861-1900, Naylor, Maria