Paul Sawyier Photograph Collection ca. 1905.

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Paul Sawyier Photograph Collection ca. 1905.

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This collection is comprised of twenty-three (23) mounted gelatin silver photographs probably taken by Paul Sawyier to be used as reference models for his artwork. Three (3) of the photographs feature people, possibly of Paul Sawyier and his girlfriend Mary Thomas (Mayme) Bull. Sixteen (16) of the photographs are landscapes, featuring rivers, bridges and meadows. The locations of where the photographs were taken are unknown but assumed to be in or near Franklin County, Kentucky, or along the Kentucky River.

0.5 c.f.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7102607

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Bull, Mary Thomas (Mayme), 1865-1914.

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Sawyier, Paul, 1865-1917

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The painter Paul Sawyier was born in Madison County, Ohio, March 23, 1865, to a family of amateur artists. In 1870, the family moved to Frankfort, Kentucky. Sawyier attended the Cincinnati Art Academy in 1884-85 and then returned to Frankfort in 1886. There he began painting river scenes and landscapes. Sawyier continued his art studies in New York and Cincinnati, then returned again to Frankfort where he concentrated on landscape painting in a variety of media, including his favorite, watercolo...