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                            Introduction
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Frank Fowler (July 12, 1852 - August 18, 1910) was an American figure
and portrait painter.


                             Biography
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Frank Fowler was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 12, 1852. He was
educated at Adelphi Academy.

He studied painting in Europe, at Florence, Italy for two years under
Edwin White, for seven years under Carolus-Duran in Paris, and under
Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts.

Fowler 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 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).

Fowler died in New Canaan, Connecticut on August 18, 1910.


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