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Percy Ives

Percy Ives (1864 - 1928) was active/lived in Michigan.  Percy Ives is known for Portrait painting, some genre-landscape.

Born near Rochester, New York, Percy Ives became a portrait painter and teacher.  His father, Lewis Thomas Ives, was also a portrait painter and a teacher of his son. Percy Ives studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts* in 1882, and in Paris from 1884 to 1890 at the Academy Julian*.  Among his teachers in Paris were Jean Leon Gerome and Gustave Boulanger.

Returning to America, Percy Ives married Elsie Caron, a still-life painter, and established a career as a portrait painter and art educator, settling in Detroit where his father had his studio.  Like his father he painted subjects that were often prominent people including Grover Cleveland, a portrait begun by Lewis Thomas Ives and left unfinished by his death, and poet Walt Whitman. 

In 1890, Percy Ives became Dean of the Detroit Museum Art School.  He also designed the official seal of the Detroit Museum of Art.

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