Frank Fowler (artist)
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Frank Fowler (July 12, 1852 – August 18, 1910) was an American figure and portrait painter.
Biography
Frank Fowler was born in
He studied painting in Europe, at
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In the late 1890s, he resided in a home on at #16 The Enclosure, an artists' colony in Nutley, New Jersey.[3] He built a large studio on the back of that house, where he painted. The same studio was later owned by Michael Lenson, a well known New Jersey painter who was director of the mural division of the New Jersey WPA in the 1930s. Earlier, the same home was owned by Frederick Dana Marsh, the illustrator. The house was the childhood home of Reginald Marsh, the distinguished American painter. In 1892, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1900.
He wrote upon art topics for the magazines and several textbooks: Oil Painting (1885), Portrait and Figure Painting (1901) and Drawing In Charcoal And Crayon (1899).[1]
Fowler died in New Canaan, Connecticut on August 18, 1910.[4][5]
References
- ^ a b c d Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1906). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. IV. Boston: American Biographical Society. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ van Hook, Bailey (1996). Angels of Art: Women and Art in American Society, 1876-1914. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 28.
- ^ Frank Fowler Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Art & Architecture of New Jersey. Accessed December 11, 2007.
- ^ American Art Annual, Volume 8. MacMillan Company. 1911. p. 398.
- ^ "Obituary: Frank Fowler". Yonkers Herald. August 20, 1910. p. 4. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.