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Frederick Sylvester

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Frederick Oakes Sylvester (1869 - 1915) was active/lived in Illinois, Missouri, Massachusetts.  Frederick Sylvester is known for Riverine-urban landscape, mural painting.

The artist and poet, Frederick Oakes Sylvester, was born in Massachusetts in 1869.  In 1888, determined to be an art teacher, he entered the renowned Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston and graduated with honors in three years rather than the typical five years of study.  Armed with his degree, Sylvester taught painting and drawing at Newcomb College at Tulane University in New Orleans for one year.  In 1892, he and his wife moved to St. Louis when he was hired as art director at the new Central High School and where the family within seven years included a daughter and a son.  Sylvester taught at Central High School until 1913.  In 1901, he took on an after-school second job as art director of The Principia, a three-year-old private school in St. Louis, where he taught for 14 years. 

In 1902, Sylvester purchased a warm-weather cottage on the bluffs above the Mississippi River village of Elsah, Illinois, north of St. Louis, with scenic views   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3495 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Frederick Sylvester available:    Frank Nuderscher,  Fred Greene Carpenter,  Frederick E Conway,  Oscar Thalinger,  Mildred Carpenter,  Joseph Vorst,  Gustav Frederick Goetsch,  Paul E Harney Jr,  Victor Joseph Harles,  Kathryn E Bard Cherry,  Siegfried Gerhard Reinhardt,  Edmund Wuerpel,  Wallace Herndon Smith,  Francis Humphry W Woolrych,  Gustav (Gustave) Wolff,  William Quinn,  Arthur Osver,  Lillian Thoele,  Ken Anderson,  Joseph Rusling Meeker,  Sarkis Erganian,  Tanasko Milovich,  Augusta Finkelnburg,  William Matthews



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19 Book References for Frederick Sylvester
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1988 Collester, Jeanne Colette Frederick Oakes Sylvester: The Principia Collection 0 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Williams, Paul O Frederick Oakes Sylvester: The Artist's Encounter with Elsah 40 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1977 Barter, Judith; Lynn E Springer Currents of Expansion Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 189 No
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 281 No
Skelton Mountain Ranch Life on a Mountain Ranch 16 No
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