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| Birge (Lovell) Harrison
American 1854 -1929
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| Born: |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Paris, France
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| Studied: |
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
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| Examples of Work: |
Art Institute of Chicago
Detroit Institute of Arts
Philadelphia Museum of Art
St. Louis Art Museum
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
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| Specialty: |
Painter
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| Subjects Known For: |
Winter Scenes
City Scene
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| Memberships: |
National Academy of Design ANA 1902; NA 1910
Century Association
National Arts Club
National Institute of Arts and Letters
New York Watercolor Club
Philadelphia Sketch Club
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| Teaching Positions: |
Art Students League, New York City
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Birge Harrison was one of a group of gifted young American painters, among them John Singer Sargent and Abbott Thayer who studied in Paris in the 1870's and later helped to win serious recognition for American art in the eyes of the art world. He was known principally for poetic winter land...
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Birge Harrison was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 28, 1854. He was the director of the Art Students League in New York and the brother of artist Alexander Harrison. Beginning in 1880, he made the first of sev...
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