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- Born in Paris in 1913, John A. Noble is the son of the noted American painter, John "Wichita Bill" Noble.
- John Alexander Noble (1913–1983) was an artist known for creating drawings, paintings, and lithographs of ships and harbors around New York City.
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John Noble (painter)
American painter
For other uses, see John Noble (disambiguation).
John Noble | |
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| Born | 1874 Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | January 6, 1934(1934-01-06) (aged 59–60) New York, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Jean-Paul Laurens |
| Known for | Painter |
| Notable work | The Run, The Big Herd, On the Marne |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism |
| Awards | Andrew Carnegie Prize winter exhibition 1928 |
John ('Wichita Bill') Noble was born in 1874 to an upper-middle-class family that had emigrated from England. He was a noted post-impressionist painter of cowboys, sunrises and seascapes. He wore a five-gallon hat and called himself the "first white child born in Wichita."
He often advised prospective customers not to buy his paintings. He often slashed them up and sometimes even bought back pictures he had sold, just to mutilate them.
Noble worked in the late 1890s as a photographer and artist in Wichita, Kansas. While there, he painted a saloon nude (Cleopatra at the Roman Bath) that came to be notoriously condemned and
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John Noble
1874–1934
John ('Wichita Bill') Noble was born in 1874 to an upper-middle-class family that had emigrated from England. He was a noted post-impressionist painter of cowboys, sunrises and seascapes. He wore a five-gallon hat and called himself the "first white child born in Wichita."
He often advised prospective customers not to buy his paintings. He often slashed them up and sometimes even bought back pictures he had sold, just to mutilate them.
Noble worked in the late 1890s as a photographer and artist in Wichita, Kansas. While there, he painted a saloon nude (Cleopatra at the Roman Bath) that came to be notoriously condemned and defaced by Carrie Nation, and a larger-than-life-sized portrait of Albert Pike which still hangs in the reception room of the Wichita Consistory.
He went to France in 1903 at age 29. where he took on the fictionalized persona of "Wichita Bill." He studied at the Académie Julien under Jean-Paul Laurens and befriended fellow American artists George Luks and Richard E. Miller.
He married Amelia Peiche, of Strasbourg, France, in 190
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John A. Noble (1913–1983)
Born in Paris in 1913, John Noble moved with his family to the US in 1919. He began drawing and painting in his teens: “About 1929 I started my crude drawings and paintings,” In the wintertime, while still going to school, I was a permanent fixture on the old McCarren line tugs, which had the monopoly on the schooner towing in New York Harbor. This kept them constantly before my eyes. In the summertime, I would go to sea.”
Noble graduated from the Friends Seminary in New York City, returning to France in 1931, studying a year at the University of Grenoble, and returning to New York, where he studied for one year at the National Academy of Design. During this time, John Noble worked as a seaman on schooners and in marine salvage; in 1941, Noble began to build a floating studio out of parts of vessels he salvaged, and by 1946 he was working full-time as an artist, often exploring New York Harbor in a rowboat. He captured the vessels and people of the harbor in his sketches, paintings, lithographs, and charcoal drawings, and is remembe
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