Of the photo used here for his ID photo, Max Bohm said: "My only available photograph but it will do as it looks like me." Max Bohm (1868–1923) was an American artist born in Cleveland but he spent much of his time in Europe. Bohm was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Bohm studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and travelled in Europe. Between 1895-1904 he made his home at the Etaples art colony. Described as a romantic visionary, his heroic depiction of Étaples fishermen, received a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1898. He went on to teach painting at a school in London until 1911 before returning to the United States to join the school of artists in Cape Cod. Bohm became a National Academician in 1920, dying three years later in Provincetown, a town at the tip of Cape Cod. His paintings are part of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, the Luxembourg Gallery in Paris and there is a mural in his home town at the Cuyahoga County Courthouse. Bohm is grandfather of artist Anne Packard. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Bohm) "...born in Cleveland, Ohio, and died in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1923. From age 19, most of his life was spent in Europe where he was recognized as one of the foremost American painters of his generation. He was practically unknown in the US until late in his career when he began exhibiting here and receiving the highest critical and public acclaim. His work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery in Washington, DC, the Luxenbourg Gallery in Paris, and other leading museums here and abroad. In describing Max Bohm's art, one New York critic wrote in 1927: The work of this painter achieves the rare mastery of combining great sincerity with versatility. He observed and interpreted life through the broad, universal understanding of the genuine artist, and his brush lent to a large range of themes the same conviction, the..." More at http://www.packardgallery.com/max-bohm.html undefined

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