Papers of Paul Wayland Bartlett, 1881-1949.

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building (Washington, D.C.)

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Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. In addition to bringing the Montessori method of child-rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country's first adult education program and shaped literary taste...

Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564

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Epithet: sculptor, painter, poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x0002d2 ...

Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917

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Rodin was a French artist most noted for his work as a sculptor. Delaunay was a French painter. From the description of [Notes] / Rodin. [between 1880 and 1917?] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 191101211 French sculptor. From the description of Letters, 1882-1916. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84214109 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Paris], to Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Davis, 1903 Dec. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record ...

Dallin, Cyrus E. (Cyrus Edwin), 1861-1944

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American sculptor. From the description of Letter, 1929 May 11, Arlington Heights, Mass., to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184907322 Sculptor; Arlington Heights, Massachusetts. From the description of Cyrus Edwin Dallin papers, 1883-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122647980 Cyrus E. Dallin (1861-1944) was an American sculptor and teacher. He was an important figure an American sculpture and taught for more than forty ...

Bartlett, Truman Howe, 1835-1923

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Bartlett was an American author who wrote books and articles about artists and art movements. From the description of Collection on Auguste Rodin, 1886-1913. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367704 Truman Howe Bartlett (1835-1923) was a sculptor in Boston, Mass. From the description of Truman Howe Bartlett scrapbook, circa 1880-1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646402695 ...

Columbus, Chris

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Epithet: of Genoa British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000367.0x000120 Italian explorer and navigator commissioned by Spain. Italian name was Cristoforo Colombo. Known in Spain as Cristóbal Colón. Born 1451; died 1506. From the description of Collection concerning Christopher Columbus, 1488-1515. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067622 ...

Warner, Olin Levi, 1844-1896

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Olin Levi Warner was born in 1844 in Suffield, Connecticut and worked as an artisan and a telegraph operator before pursuing his art education and career. In 1869, Warner traveled to Paris to study under Francois Jouffroy at the École des Beaux-Arts. He was in Paris when the Republic was declared and served in the French Foreign Legion for a short while before resuming his studies. In 1872 he returned to the United States and set up a studio in New York. An early proponent of the French...

Beach, Chester, 1881-1956

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Sculptor and medalist; New York, N.Y. From the description of Chester Beach papers, 1885-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80064150 Chester Beach (1881-1956) was a sculptor and medalist in New York, N.Y. From the description of Chester Beach papers, 1885-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 669910178 From the description of Chester Beach papers, 1846-1999, bulk circa 1900-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756821024 From the description of ...

Carrère, John Merven 1858-1911

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Architect. From the description of John Merven Carrère papers, 1894-1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79322247 Biographical Note John Merven Carrère, American architect, was born in 1858 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Educated in Switzerland, he later graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and moved to New York, where his American family had resettled from Brazil. He worked first as a draughtsman with the firm ...

Bartlett, Paul Wayland, 1865-1925

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Sculptor. From the description of Papers of Paul Wayland Bartlett, 1881-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131109 American expatriate sculptor. From the guide to the Paul Bartlett letter to John Shaw Billings (Director of NYPL), 1905, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) Sculptor and portraitist; Paris, France and Washington, D.C. Bartlett was born in Connecticut and raised in France where he enter...

Fauré-Frémiet, E. (Emmanuel), 1824-1910

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Whalen, Grover A. (Grover Aloysius), 1886-1962

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Municipal official. From the description of Reminiscences of Grover A. Whalen : oral history, 1950. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122528301 ...

United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)

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Bigelow, Poultney, 1855-1954

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Poultney Bigelow (b. September 10, 1855, New York City-d. May 28, 1954, Malden-on-Hudson, New York), was the son of John Bigelow, American Ambassador to France under Abraham Lincoln. He grew up in France, and also in Germany, where he became friends with Prince William, later emperor of Germany. Bigelow studied at Yale University, and began practicing law, but was more interested in politics and writing. He is perhaps best remembered as a journalist. He was editor of Outing magazine and later co...

Bitter, Karl Theodore Francis, 1867-1915

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Born in a suburb of Vienna, Austria, Karl Bitter was trained as a sculptor at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, from 1885 to 1888. After active service in the Army, Bitter immigrated to the United States, arriving in New York City in November of 1889. Within weeks of his arrival, Bitter was engaged by the American architect, Richard Morris Hunt (1825-1895). He worked on projects for the Astors and Vandberbilts in New York City and at the Biltmore Estate, for William H. Vanderbilt, Ash...

Millet, Jean-François, 1814-1875

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French painter. From the description of Letters, 1865-1867. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84155200 ...