Dow, Arthur W. (Arthur Wesley), 1857-1922

Dow was born in 1857 in Ipswich, MA; received a classical education under private instruction; studied art in Boston and in Paris, as a student of Boulanger and Lefebvre; his pictures were exhibited in Paris in 1886-87, where he won an honorable mention in 1889; won medal at the Buffalo Exposition; became curator of Japanese art at the Eastern Museum of Fine Arts, instructor of art at the Pratt Institute (1895-1904), instructor of composition at the Art Students' League in NY (1897-1903), director of the Ipswich Summer School of Art, and in 1904 professor of fine arts at Teachers College, Columbia Univ.; publications include Composition : a series of exercises selected from a new system of art education (c1899), Theory and practice of teaching art (1908), and Constructive art teaching (1913); he died on Dec. 13, 1922.

From the description of A Collection of material by Arthur Wesley Dow and students of the UCLA Dow Association, ca. 1930-1939. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 40160178

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