Frank Fowler (artist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Frank Fowler (artist)

American artist

Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1852

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date of Death: 18-Aug-1910

Profession: painter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Frank Fowler (artist)

  • Frank Fowler (July 12, 1852 – August 18, 1910) was an American figure and portrait painter, born in Brooklyn, New York.
  • He studied painting in Europe at Florence, Italy for two years under Edwin White, and for seven years under Carolus-Duran in Paris, and under Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts.He assisted Duran on the fresco of Marie de Médicis in the Luxembourg Palace.
  • On his return to New York in 1879 he devoted himself for a time to mural painting, his most important work being the decoration of the ballroom at the Waldorf Hotel (1892) (The building exists no more, having been destroyed to provide a place where the Empire State Building could be erected).
  • Later he painted chiefly portraits, including a number of public men.
  • Some of his portraits have been kept at Albany, New York and elsewhere. In the late 1890s, he resided in a home on at #16 The Enclosure, an artists' colony in Nutley, New Jersey.
  • 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 Frederic 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). Fowler died in New Canaan, Connecticut in 1910.

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