He was born in Germany and emigrated to America as a teenager with his family. He later spent time in the Giverny, France artist colony near where Claude Monet lived. So Buehr was Impressionist-influenced, but his non-landscape paintings were of the American version of Impressionism that featured stronger drawing than the classical French style of Monet.
Sometime around when he was in Giverny, Buehr did a number of paintings of young women that included brightly colored, Japanese inspired parasols. Here are a few:
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There is something magical about Edwardian women of a certain class, at leisure in their gardens. Reading, having afternoon tea or tending to the children...just like E Phillips Fox and Laura Knight.
Their Edwardian whites were soft, beautiful dresses and more sensible than their mothers' corset-bound affairs.
His women look a little sour-faced to me.
Perhaps the women are weary of the male gaze.
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