Fortune by Charles Allen Winter

Fortune by Charles Allen Winter

Charles Allen Winter

1869 - 1942

Charles Allen Winter was an illustrator and landscape and marine painter. He studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy and in Paris. He painted at Gloucester, Massachusetts and St. Louis and exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was married to Alice Beach Winter, also a successful artist.
At the age of 15 he entered the Cincinnati Art Academy as a student. He was able to attend the art academy only part time, some of the time the night session only, for seven years or until he was 22. The next two years he attended both the day and night sessions. His teachers included Vincent Nowottny, Lewis Lutz, and Thomas S. Noble.
In 1894 Charles won a foreign scholarship competition given by the art academy with which he traveled abroad for three years in Paris, France. Tuition and all personal expenses were covered by the scholarship. At the Académie Julian he studied under Adolphe-William Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier. He spent eight months of the three year scholarship in Rome, Italy.
At the completion of the three years, Charles prolonged his stay in Europe until he received an invitation to teach a portrait class at the St. Louis School of Fine Art, Missouri, where he remained for three years.
In 1901 Charles moved to New York and took a studio at 8 East 59th Street, where he lived when he married Alice Mary Beach on January 1, 1904. He painted with bright colors and an impressionist style.
His illustrations were published in magazines such as Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, Hearst’s magazines, and The Masses.
Charles died in 1942.