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Oliver Dennett Grover

Oliver Dennett Grover (1861 - 1927) was active/lived in Illinois / England.  Oliver Grover is known for Landscape, marine, portrait, mural painting.

Born in Earlville, Illinois, Grover (1861-1927) was the son of the lawyer Alonzo Jackson Grover, known for his stand against slavery and his support of an "underground railway" to transport fugitive slaves to Canada.  Oliver traveled to Munich after studying four years at the University of Chicago.  During the 1879-80 school year he enrolled in Munich's Royal Academy and studied with Frank Duveneck.  Already in 1880, he was exhibiting at Munich's International Exposition.  Grover followed Duveneck to Venice and Florence, then studied further in Paris between 1883 and 1885 under Boulanger and Lefebvre.
 
Back in Chicago in 1885, Grover opened a studio and founded the Western Art Association.  We find him on the faculty of the Chicago Art Academy in 1887, where he remained for five years.  Yet a writer in The Graphic, 26 September 1891 tells of Grover's culture shock upon returning to Chicago: "It was too great a change for Mr. Grover to e   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5389 characters.]  Artist bio

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