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HUGH HENRY BRECKENRIDGE (american 1870–1937) GLOUCESTER STREET Signed 'Hugh H. Breckenridge' bottom left, oil on canvas 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (76.8 x 64.1cm) provenance: McClees Galleries, Pennsylvania. Private Collection, California. NOTE: Although he was born in Leesburg, Virginia in 1870, Hugh Henry Breckenridge has long been associated with the city of Philadelphia, having studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1887 to 1892, before subsequently teaching there for forty years. At the end of his life, Breckenridge established his own school of art in Gloucester, Massachusetts - a popular destination for young artists of the time, which inspired the present work. Breckenridge worked in several styles and explored different currents ranging from Impressionism to Expressionism, to purest Abstraction; his sole focus being the expressive power of color. Contrary to Arthur B. Carles though, one of his most talented students, also enamored with color play, Hugh Breckenridge thought of color as a "structural force" capable of reaching a harmony of form and space. As exemplified by "Gloucester Street," the artist used his deep understanding of color theory and chemistry to approach his composition, applying each dot of color in a loose, yet careful and precise manner, similar to Paul Signac's pointillism which officially emerged several years after.