R. H. Ives Gammell

R. H. Ives Gammell

Robert Hale Ives Gammell (1893–1981), American muralist, portrait painter, art teacher, and writer on art, was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1893. In 1911, he enrolled in the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It was there that he made contact with painters who had been trained in Europe, particularly with William Paxton, who had himself been a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme's at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Among his other teachers were Edmund Tarbell, Joseph DeCamp, Philip Hale. Later, he studied at the Académie Julian and the Atelier Baschet in Paris.