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Historical Society of Bloomfield Trustee Rich Rockwell presents a new program on the photography of Charles Warren Eaton from 1900 to 1925. Rockwell discovered a set of over 1,000 negatives of Charles Warren Eaton’s photos of sites in Europe – Bruges, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands – scenes of canals, windmills, architecture and street scenes. Eaton lived in Bloomfield from 1887 until his death in 1937. He was known for his intimate landscapes in the Tonalist style and was particularly known for his pine tree paintings. He used his photographs as models for paintings back in his studio in Bloomfield. He was a protégé of George Innes. Rockwell will showcase photos of Eaton and his home in Bloomfield, and some of the photos corresponding to paintings derived from those scenes.
In the Exhibition catalog from a show of his work at the Montclair Art Museum in 1980, Maureen C. O’Brien wrote “He did not simply experiment with the camera but became a competent and avid photographer and used his instrument to compose and secure the views of Bruges canals and Flemish poplars which would be translated onto canvas in his winter studios.” … [His photography] “shows a bold and frequently exceptional use of the camera to raise the horizon, select elegant curves in landscape, or capture a racing, angled, double perspective of poplars along a canal.”
Rockwell digitized and curated the negatives he discovered and created a website for them: http://CharlesWarrenEataon.org
Rich Rockwell has lived in Montclair and Bloomfield for almost 30 years. He authored Bloomfield Through Time (Fonthill, 2015) and has become the leading expert on the Morris Canal in Bloomfield. He is a Councilman at Large in Bloomfield, and he serves on the Bloomfield Morris Canal Greenway Committee and numerous other civic organizations.
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Photo credit: Rich Rockwell