Guy Rose
1867-1925
BORN IN
San Gabriel, California
KNOWN FOR
Impressionist landscape and marine, painting, portrait, genre
Guy Rose was born in San Gabriel, California on March 3,1867. He was the son of a former senator who was a large Southern California landowner and rancher for whom the town of Rosemead was named. Guy graduated from Los Angeles High School; next he studied at the California School of Design in San Francisco, where he was particularly influenced by Emil Carlsen. At the age of twenty-one he sailed to Paris to study at the Academie Julian. His big claim to fame was his friendship with Claude Monet during a prolonged sojourn in the village of Giverny, near Paris.
