Jared French
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican artist (1905-1988)
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Jared French was an American painter who specialized in the medium of egg tempera. He was one of the artists attributed to the style of art known as magic realism along with contemporaries George Tooker and Paul Cadmus.
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![Cavalrymen Crossing a River (1939), French's central mural for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia, is now displayed at the Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse. Life magazine reported that French painted himself into the mural as the figure wearing suspenders.[8]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Painting_%22Cavalrymen_Crossing_a_River%22_at_Court_House_Annex%2C_Richmond%2C_Virginia_LCCN2010719844.tif/lossy-page1-1280px-Painting_%22Cavalrymen_Crossing_a_River%22_at_Court_House_Annex%2C_Richmond%2C_Virginia_LCCN2010719844.tif.jpg)
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About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1905 to 1988 · aged 82
Written about in
7 languages
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