Samuel Gray Ward art works

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Samuel Gray Ward art works

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Eleven watercolors by Ward; and photographic portraits of him, his mother, and his father, Thomas Wren Ward, each with watercolor added to the surface.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8322835

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Ward, Samuel Gray, 1817-1907

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Samuel Gray Ward (October 3, 1817 – November 17, 1907) was an American poet, author, and minor member of the Transcendentalism movement. He was also a banker and a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among his circle of contemporaries were poets and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller who were deeply disappointed when Ward gave up a career in writing for business just before he married. Ward was born on October 3, 1817 in Portland, Maine. He was the son of Lydia ...