Daniel Garber (1880-1958)
Spring Valley Inn, 1940
Born in Indiana, Daniel Garber was the son of a Pennsylvania Mennonite farmer. After attending summer classes at the Derby School of Painting in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, with Thomas Anshutz and Hugh Breckenridge, he enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy in 1899. He spent six years there, studying with William Merritt Chase, and possibly Cecilia Beaux. After two years in Europe, he returned to Pennsylvania in 1909, taking a teaching position at the Pennsylvania Academy, where he would remain an instructor until 1950. In his Lumberville studio, he produced some of the handsomest landscapes and figure paintings produced by any Pennsylvania Impressionist. His graceful and lyrical compositions were inspired by scenes near his home. A skilled figure painter, his poetic canvases reveal his thoroughly academic training and strong drawing skills in their harmonious presentation.
At the time he painted Spring Valley Inn (1940), Garber was well established and successful. The canvas conveys the warmth of late summer at his home, his flickering brushwork capturing the kind of idyllic scene favored by both French and American Impressionists. His use of broken patches of color also suggest an understanding of Post-Impressionism.
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