Artist Info: Marcel Gromaire: A major French painter, printmaker and designer Marcel Gromaire first received training for a legal career. Beginning around 1910 he frequented the studio of Henri Matisse and received some lessons in printmaking from Felix Vallotton, at the Academie Ranson. Gromaire's first works of art to be exhibited were at the Salon des Independants in 1911. During the First World War (1914-1918) he served in the French Army and was wounded at the Somme. After the war, Gromaire was a frequent exhibitor at both the Salon d'Automne and at the Salon des Independants. His first one man show took place in Paris in 1921.