Oil Portrait by Patrick Henry Bruce ( 1881-1936 ) of Hugh McCulloch (March 9, 1869 - March 27, 1902) who was an American poet. And two poems written by Bruce about his model. To contact me about this site email me at .... ray@webmail.us

Patrick Henry Bruce (1881-1936), who studied under Chase and then Henri at the New York School of Art, reached Paris in 1904, and entered the Stein circle, attending Matisse's studio classes. (Several other fledgling American modernists did too: Henry Lyman Sayen, Max Weber, and Arthur B. Carles.) His early work, like Still Life (With Tapestry), 1912, became an ambitious effort to combine the faceted structure of Cézanne with the luminous, space-forming color of Matisse. From 1917 on he produced a remarkable series of geometric, abstracted still-lifes, Utopian arrays of cylinders, disks, trapezoids, rods, and beams, mechanically drafted with compass, scale, and french curve.