Erle loran biography definition

Erle Loran ( - ) 

 

Loran, artist and formal-analysis author on Cézanne paintings, was born Erleloran Johnson in Minneapolis.  He entered University of Minnesota briefly, between , switching to the Minneapolis School of Art (now the Minneapolis College of Art and Design), where he graduated in

 

Through the Chaloner Foundation, a body funding the study of "great works of art" by students in the museums of Europe, he continued study on the continent.

It was at that time that Johnson became fascinated by the artist Paul Cézanne. Like the Cézanne scholar, John Rewald, Johnson combed the French countryside around Aix-en-Provence, France, photographing the scenes and motifs Cézanne used in his paintings of Mont-Ste.

Victoire and the countryside. He immersed himself in the study of Cézanne, even living in Cézanne's studio temporarily.

 

Returning to the United States in , he settled in New York publish