R. H. Ives Gammell, was an artist, author, and influential teacher at Fenway Studios in Boston for over 45 years. He was a student of the ”Boston School “ painter William Paxton, who had studied with Gérôme in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In Boston, Gammell attempted to revive his version of the 19th c. Parisian atelier system using the traditional methods of European painters. Beginning about 1935, he selected two or three gifted students for his “Gammell atelier.” Their vigorous training included drawing from plaster casts and models and painting them in natural light. Mr. Gammell was from a wealthy Providence Rhode Island family, did not charge tuition from his students, and provided them with materials in the early years. He often gave them tickets to the opera and symphony to encourage their cultural development, and even occasionally provided his students with fellowships for European travel so they could study specific paintings in various museums. The central work of Mr. Gammell’s life as an artist, was a series of paintings of epic proportions entitled “The Hound of Heaven” after a poem by Francis Thompson written in 1898-1899. Gammell’s book, “Twilight of the Painters” published in 1947 outraged some lovers of modern art and is still considered by some to be controversial. Beyond his contributions as an artist and author, Mr. Gammell’s most enduring legacy may have been his students, who continue the traditions of the “Gammell Atelier” today in Boston, Massachusetts, Manchester New Hampshire, St. Paul Minnesota and Florence Italy. Some his students, who are active as painters today include, Robert Douglass Hunter, Robert Cormier, Richard Lack, David Curtis, Paul Ingbretson, Garry Hoffman, David Lowery, Tom Dunlay, Charles Cecil and others.