Louis Bouche
Louis Bouché's father knew many art dealers and Louis remembered playing in galleries as a child, surrounded by European paintings. He moved to France when he was thirteen and repeatedly missed lessons so that he could attend the Académie Colarossi and the Grande Chaumière art schools. His mother eventually found him a tutor in Brittany, and the young artist spent several summers there, painting images of the landscape and local fishermen. Bouché returned to America after the outbreak of World War I and settled in New York, where he painted murals and taught at the Art Students League. (Louis Bouché, Oral History, August 7, 1959, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
