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Arthur Watson Sparks
Arthur Watson Sparks (1870/71, Washington, D.C. - 6 August 1919, Philadelphia) was an American Painting, painter and art teacher. Biography He was born to Mary and Frederick Sparks, a federal government clerk. He was apprenticed to an architect but also took private painting lessons from Howard Helmick. His progress there encouraged him to enroll at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Corcoran Art School. After some time at Corcoran the Director, Eliphalet Frazer Andrews, E. F. Andrews, appointed him to the sensitive position of monitor in the "painting from life" (nude) art classes. In 1898 he won a design competition, along with his collaborator J. Elfreth Watkins, chief of buildings for the United States National Museum, for a proposed "Hall of American Inventions" to be built at the Exposition Universelle (1900). As a result, he was given a place on the installation committee and went to Paris. While there, he took employment that provided him the means to study at the A ...
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Arthur Watson Sparks
Arthur Watson Sparks (1870/71, Washington, D.C. - 6 August 1919, Philadelphia) was an American Painting, painter and art teacher. Biography He was born to Mary and Frederick Sparks, a federal government clerk. He was apprenticed to an architect but also took private painting lessons from Howard Helmick. His progress there encouraged him to enroll at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Corcoran Art School. After some time at Corcoran the Director, Eliphalet Frazer Andrews, E. F. Andrews, appointed him to the sensitive position of monitor in the "painting from life" (nude) art classes. In 1898 he won a design competition, along with his collaborator J. Elfreth Watkins, chief of buildings for the United States National Museum, for a proposed "Hall of American Inventions" to be built at the Exposition Universelle (1900). As a result, he was given a place on the installation committee and went to Paris. While there, he took employment that provided him the means to study at the A ...
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