Arthur Watson Sparks, United States, (1870–1919), had early training in the field of
architecture and not until the end of the nineteenth century did he begin to study art and
develop his painting skills. He studied in the U.S. and in France at the Julian Academy and
the Ecole des Beaux Arts for ten years.
Sparks developed into a landscape and genre painter with a reputation as a leading U.S.
Impressionist artist. His works, primarily of rural France and the American west, are
characterized by vivid colors and scenes of relaxed figures in dappled, suffused light.
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The laughing gods will often put a good root in a little pig's way.