Skip to Content

Charles Hovey Pepper

Showing 1 of 1


Print this page



Charles Hovey Pepper

American, (1864–1950)
Landscape and portrait painter Charles Hovey Pepper is best remembered for bringing modern art to Boston. Native of Waterbury, Maine, Pepper attended Colby College, and after graduation married Francis Coburn. The following year they went to New York, where Pepper enrolled at the Art Students League and studied with William Merritt Chase. In 1893 the Peppers went to Paris, where he studied at the Académie Julian and with Edmond Aman Jean. He submitted paintings to the Salons of 1896 and 1899, and in 1897 had his first one-artist exhibition in Paris at the gallery L’Art Nouveau. After settling briefly in the Boston area, Pepper took a trip around the world, and lived for more than a year in Japan.


Artist Objects

Your current search criteria is: Artist is "Charles Hovey Pepper".