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The son of a lithographer, Alfred Maurer was born in 1868 in New York City. From 1885 to 1897 he studied at the National Academy of Design before leaving for Paris, which became his primary residence until 1914. In 1906, Maurer was introduced to the expatriate author, Gertrude Stein, and her brother Leo Stein. Through their extraordinary collection of modern art, Maurer encountered firsthand the groundbreaking work of Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
It was the work of Matisse that captivated Maurer, and by 1907 he had already adopted the principles of Fauvism, espousing a vibrant palette and expressive, painterly technique, as evident in Landscape with Train. After returning to the United States at the outbreak of World War I, Maurer took a prominent place among the American modernist painters. Through the years, his work, however, became more subdued and conventional, in keeping with the somber climate that the war generated.
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