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Eva Scott Fényes
Eva Scott Fényes (1849-1930) was an American painter known for watercolor landscape of the American west. She was also known for her philanthropic activities. Biography Fényes was born on November 9, 1849, in New York City as the only child of Leonard and Rebecca Briggs Scott. She attended Pelham Priory School, the first girls’ preparatory school in the New York area, where she receives her first art training. In 1868/69 she travels through Southern Europe and Northern Africa with her parents, spending six weeks in Egypt, where she receives art training from Sanford R. Gifford. On November 19, 1878, she married Lieutenant William Sullivane Muse, US Marine Corps, Fort Monroe, Virginia, with whom she had one child, Leonora Scott Muse Curtin (1879-1972). In 1889 Eva and her daughter come to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to seek divorce. In 1895 she travels to Egypt again, where she meets her second husband, Hungarian nobleman Adalbert Fényes de Csokaly. They marry in Budapest in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sanford Robinson Gifford (July 10, 1823 – August 29, 1880) was an American landscape painter and a leading member of the second generation of Hudson River School artists. A highly-regarded practitioner of Luminism, his work was noted for its emphasis on light and soft atmospheric effects. Childhood and early career He was born in Greenfield, New York, the fourth of the eleven children of Quaker ironmaker Elihu Gifford and Eliza Robinson Starbuck.American Archives of Art, Smithsonian Institution. Biographical information. He spent his childhood in , and entered |
Leonora Scott Muse Curtin
Leonora Scott Curtin ( Muse; 1879-1972) was an American botanist and philanthropist. Biography Leonora Scott Muse was born in White Plains, New York, on October 2, 1879, as daughter of Eva Scott Muse (later Fényes) and William S. Muse. Her mother moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her in 1889, seeking divorce from her husband. They built a house on Hillside Avenue. Between 1891 and 1896, Leonora went to private schools in England, France, and Switzerland. In 1896 her mother marries her second husband, Hungarian entomologist Adalbert Fényes, and the family moves to Pasadena, California, where Leonora attends Miss Orton's Classical School. In 1900, Leonora met her future husband, Thomas Edward. Curtin, a lawyer from New York, and the couple marries in 1903. That same year, their daughter and only child Leonora Frances Curtin is born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. After the death of her husband in 1911, she moved to Pasadena and later to Santa Fe. In 1914, she helped found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelbert Fenyes
Adalbert Fényes (17 November 1863 – 22 February 1937) was a Hungarian-born American physician who introduced the X-ray machine to Pasadena, California, Pasadena. In his spare time he was a keen collector of insect specimens and took an interest in gardening and breeding of new flower varieties. Fenyes was born in Arad County (former), Arad where his father Carolus was an attorney from a lineage of nobility. He was educated at the University of Vienna and trained in neurology before becoming an army physician in the court of Franz Joseph I of Austria, Franz Joseph. He served in Helwan, Egypt in 1893, and married a New York millionaire artist Eva Scott Fényes, Eva Scott in 1896. He moved to the US and introduced the first X-ray machine in Pasadena and for his pioneering work in this field he was made an honorary member of the American Medical Society. In his spare time he took an interest in insects and began to make a large collection. He especially took an interest in the Rove b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Fletcher Lummis
Charles Fletcher Lummis (March 1, 1859, in Lynn, Massachusetts – November 25, 1928, in Los Angeles, California) was a United States journalist, and an activist for Indian rights and historic preservation. A traveler in the American Southwest, he settled in Los Angeles, California, where he also became known as an historian, photographer, ethnographer, archaeologist, poet, and librarian. Lummis founded the Southwest Museum of the American Indian. Early life and career Charles Fletcher Lummis was born in 1859, in Lynn, Massachusetts. He lost his mother at age 2 and was homeschooled by his father, who was a schoolmaster. Lummis enrolled in Harvard for college and was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt's, but dropped out during his senior year. While at Harvard he worked during the summer as a printer and published his first work, ''Birch Bark Poems.'' This small volume was printed on paper-thin sheets of birch bark; he won acclaim from ''Life'' magazine and recognition from some o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasadena, California
Pasadena ( ) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is the most populous city and the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. Old Pasadena is the city's original commercial district. Its population was 138,699 at the 2020 census, making it the 44th largest city in California and the ninth-largest city in Los Angeles County. Pasadena was incorporated on June 19, 1886, becoming one of the first cities to be incorporated in what is now Los Angeles County, following the city of Los Angeles (April 4, 1850). Pasadena is known for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade. It is also home to many scientific, educational, and cultural institutions, including Caltech, Pasadena City College, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Fuller Theological Seminary, ArtCenter College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, the Ambassador Auditorium, the Norton Simon Museum, and the USC Pacif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert D
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fenyes Estate
The Fenyes Estate is a historic two-acre estate complex located at 160-170 Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena along what was once known as "Millionaires' Row". The Pasadena Museum of History maintains the century-old estate and offers docent-led tours of the Fenyes Mansion, the Curtin House, and the Finnish Folk Art Museum and gardens. In 1905, Dr. Adalbert Fenyes, a Hungarian entomologist and the first Pasadena doctor to use an X-ray machine An X-ray machine is any machine that involves X-rays. It may consist of an X-ray generator and an X-ray detector. Examples include: *Machines for medical projectional radiography *Machines for computed tomography *Backscatter X-ray machines, used ..., and his wife Eva Scott Muse Fenyes commissioned a two-story house from architect Robert D. Farquhar. Designed in the Beaux Arts manner, the mansion was completed at a cost of $20,325, In 1911, architect Sylvanus Marston of Marston & Van Pelt completed an addition consisting of a studio, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasadena Museum Of History
Pasadena Museum of History is a private, nonprofit museum and research library located in Pasadena, California. It is the only institution dedicated to the history, art and culture of historic Pasadena and the west San Gabriel Valley. Headquartered on the grounds of a century-old Pasadena estate, facilities include the Pasadena Museum History Center, the Fenyes Estate and gardens, a research library and archives, the Curtin House, and the Finnish Folk Art Museum. With public exhibits, tours, lectures, seminars, and workshops, the Pasadena Museum of History promotes an appreciation of history, culture, arts and sciences relevant to Pasadena and adjoining communities. History The City of Pasadena was founded in 1874, when members of the Indiana Colony settled along the banks of the Arroyo Seco. In 1924, the Pasadena Historical Society began to collect information about the area's history, with one filing cabinet of material collected by volunteers. In 1932, the historical soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwest Museum Of The American Indian
The Southwest Museum of the American Indian is a museum, library, and archive located in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, above the north-western bank of the Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County) canyon and stream. The museum is owned by the Autry Museum of the American West. Its collections deal mainly with Native Americans. It also has an extensive collection of pre-Hispanic, Spanish colonial, Latino, and Western American art and artifacts. Major collections had included American Indians of the Great Plains, American Indians of California, and American Indians of the Northwest Coast. Most of those materials were moved off-site, but the Southwest Museum has maintained an ongoing public exhibition on Pueblo pottery, open free of charge. The Metro L Line stops down the hill from the museum at the Southwest Museum station. About a block from the L Line stop is an entrance on Museum Drive that opens to a long tunnel formerly filled with dioramas, sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonora Frances Curtin Paloheimo
Leonora or Leonara may refer to: People *Leonora (given name), a feminine given name *Leonora of Castile (other) *Leonora of England (1162–1216), Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile * Leonora (singer) (born 1998), Danish singer representing her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 *John Leonora (1928–2006), research scientist, Loma Linda University Places * Leonora, Guyana *Leonora, Western Australia *Shire of Leonora, a local government area of Western Australia Arts and entertainment *''Leonora'' (opera), the original title of Ludwig van Beethoven's opera ''Fidelio'', in which the heroine is named Leonora (or ''Leonore'' in German) *''Leonora'' (opera) by William Henry Fry (the first known performance of an opera by an American composer on March 18, 1845) * ''Leonora'' (opera), the 1804 opera by Ferdinando Paer based on the same source as the work by Beethoven *Leonora, heroine of the opera '' Il trovatore'', the 1853 opera by Gius ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acequia Madre House
Acequia Madre House is a house built at 614 Acequia Madre in Santa Fe, in the U.S. state of New Mexico, in 1926 in the Territorial Revival style. Built by Eva Scott Fényes (1849–1930), her daughter Leonora Scott Muse Curtin (1879–1972), and her granddaughter Leonora Frances Curtin Paloheimo (1903–1999), it today houses their legacy in the form of vast collections, spanning more than 150 years of family history, including about 4,000 objects, 12,000 photographs, 700 boxes of archival material, and a historic library of 5,000 books. The property was bought in 1922. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 as one of 106 contributing buildings in the Camino del Monte Sol Historic District. With Collections The object collections consist of several hundred paintings and prints. Eva Scott Fényes, as well as her granddaughter Leonora Frances Curtin Paloheimo, were watercolor artists. Eva collected self-portraits by artists and organized them int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autry Museum Of The American West
The Autry Museum of the American West is a museum in Los Angeles, California, dedicated to exploring an inclusive history of the American West. Founded in 1988, the museum presents a wide range of exhibitions and public programs, including lectures, film, theater, festivals, family events, and music, and performs scholarship, research, and educational outreach. It has two sites and attracts about 150,000 visitors annually. In 2013, it extensively redesigned and renovated the Irene Helen Jones Parks Gallery of Art and the Gamble Firearms Gallery in its main building. In its related opening exhibit for the Parks Gallery, ''Art of the West,'' the new organization enabled material to be presented in relation to themes rather than chronology, and paintings were shown next to crafts, photography, video and other elements in new relationships. Locations The Autry Museum of the American West has two sites, about apart: *Griffith Park 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, Californ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
