William Robert Pearmain (1888 – September 28, 1912) was an American painter and activist. He grew up in
Dublin, New Hampshire
Dublin is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,532 at the 2020 census. It is home to Dublin School and ''Yankee'' magazine.
History
In 1749, the Masonian proprietors granted the town as "Monadnock No. ...
, where he was neighbor of
George de Forest Brush. He left
Harvard University, to study painting, with Brush in Italy. He married
Nancy Brush in 1909. He joined the
Industrial Workers of the World and worked for the
Westinghouse Electric Company in
Pittsburgh.
He died from
leukemia in
Framingham, Massachusetts on September 28, 1912.
His papers are held at the
Archives of American Art.
References
1888 births
1912 deaths
19th-century American painters
19th-century male artists
American male painters
20th-century American painters
Industrial Workers of the World members
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