He took a drawing class at Hull House, then attended the Art Institute’s school, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and briefly the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, then in 1909 moved to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the advice of Parker to continue his studies.
•
Ritman was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Russia (now Ukraine), and moved with his family to Chicago around 1900.
St. Louis | St. Louis Cardinals | Louis Armstrong | Louis Vuitton | Robert Louis Stevenson | Louis XIV of France | St. Louis County, Minnesota | Joe Louis | Louis IX of France | Louis Pasteur | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Saint Louis University | Washington University in St. Louis | Jacques-Louis David | Louis XIII of France | Louis XV of France | St. Louis Rams | Saint Louis | Louis XVI of France | Louis Agassiz | Louis the Pious | St. Louis Blues | Louis Andriessen | Spirit of St. Louis | Louis Comfort Tiffany | Louis | Louis XVIII of France | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans | Louis B. Mayer |
However, use of the term has been revived in recent decades by the influential and prolific art historian William H. Gerdts to describe the figurative works of not only Frieseke, but some of his Giverny compatriots including Richard E. Miller, Louis Ritman and Robert Reid.