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Ettore Caser was born in Venice, Italy in 1880. He was a painter of landscapes, figure and genre paintings and still life paintings. Caser studied music for six years at the Conservatory of Music in Venice and art at the Academy of Fine Arts also in Venice under Ettore Tito and M de Maria. The famed American artist, H. Dudley Murphy convinced Caser to move to the USA in 1909 and helped establish him as a professional artist in the Boston area. Caser lived in both Boston and NYC, the rest of his life. John Singer Sargent while working on his Boston Museum decorations, made several trips to see the self-portrait of Caser in the home of H. Dudley Murphy. Caser’s work was well received both in Boston and Chicago and resulted in commissions for decorations in many homes, including the famous Ginn Estate in Winchester, Ma. Ettore Caser exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1909 through 1928, The Corcoran Gallery, NYC, 1914-1919, 1926, 1932, The Art Institute of Chicago in 1915 and at the Panama-Pacific International Expo, San Francisco also in 1915. He was awarded Silver Medal at the San Francisco Fair. He was elected an Associate Member of the famed National Academy of Design, NYC where he won the prestigious W. A.Clark Prize. Ettore Caser died in NYC in 1944. Today, his works can be found in private and public collections including murals in the National Bank of Toledo, Ohio, The Engineer’s Club, NYC and the Winchester Public Library, Winchester, Ma. His paintings can be found in The Boston Art Club, Boston, Ma, and the Salmagundi Club, NYC. |
