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Henry Bacon
Biography Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866 – February 16, 1924) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who oversaw the engineering and design of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., built between 1915 and 1922, which was his final project before his 1924 death. Bacon was born in Watseka, Illinois. He studied briefly at the University of… Continue reading
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Frederic Edwin Church
Biography Frederic Edwin Church was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on May 4, 1826, the only son of a wealthy businessman. Although his father hoped he would become a physician or enter the world of business, Church persisted in his early desire to be a painter. In 1842-1843 he studied in Hartford with Alexander H. Emmons… Continue reading
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John Singer Sargent
Biography John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the leading portrait painter of his generation for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from… Continue reading
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Charles Rollinson Lamb
Biography Charles Rollinson Lamb (1860 – February 22, 1942) was an American architect and sculptor. Born and raised in New York City, he studied under William Sartain at the Art Students’ League. He was a member of his father’s firm, the J&R Lamb Studios. He was a founding member of the National Sculpture Society. He… Continue reading
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Edwin Blashfield
Biography Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5, 1848 – October 12, 1936) was an American painter and muralist, most known for painting the murals on the dome of the Library of Congress Main Reading Room in Washington, DC. Blashfield was born in Brooklyn in 1848 to William H. Blashfield and Eliza Dodd. He studied painting at… Continue reading
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Charles B. Atwood
Biography Charles Bowler Atwood (1849–1895) was an architect whose designs were used throughout the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He also designed a number of notable buildings in the city of Chicago. Atwood was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1849. He attended the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard University. Atwood trained in the office… Continue reading
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George B. Post
Biography George Browne Post (December 15, 1837 – November 28, 1913) was an American architect trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition. Active from 1869 almost until his death, he was recognized as a master of several prominent contemporary American architectural genres, and instrumental in the birth of the skyscraper. Many of his most characteristic projects were… Continue reading
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Thomas Moran
Biography Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He… Continue reading
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Kenyon Cox
Biography Kenyon Cox (Oct. 27, 1856 – March 17, 1919) was an American painter and art critic, known for his murals and decorative work. Cox was a pupil of Carolus-Duran and of Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris from 1877 to 1882, when he returned to New York City, subsequently teaching with much success in the Art… Continue reading
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John Hemenway Duncan
Biography John Hemenway Duncan (January 21, 1854 – October 18, 1929) was an American architect. Duncan’s reputation was established ater being selected as the architect of Grant’s Tomb, a monumental structure reminiscent of the ancient Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Another of Duncan’s most famous works is the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch in Grand Army Plaza in… Continue reading
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