Paul Sawyier
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Paul Sawyier, 1905
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| Born | 23 March 1865 Madison County, Ohio |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Fleischmanns, New York |
| Years active | circa 1881-1917 |
Paul Sawyier (March 23, 1865 – November 5, 1917), one of Kentucky's most renowned artists,[1] was an American impressionist painter.
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Early life and education
Sawyier, the son of Dr. Nathaniel and Ellen Wingate Sawyier, was born on March 23, 1865 on his grandfather's farm near London in Madison County, Ohio. In 1870, he moved with his family to Frankfort, Kentucky.
After high school Sawyier attended the McMicken School of Design (now the Art Academy of Cincinnati), studying under Frank Duveneck and Thomas Satterwhite Noble. In 1889, he furthered his art studies under William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League of New York.[2]
Career as artist
Sawyier worked mostly in watercolor and is best known for his scenes in the Frankfort, Kentucky area and New York. Sawyier is noted for his paintings of the Kentucky and Dix rivers.[3] In 1893, Sawyier went to the Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition, where some of his works were in the State of Kentucky display.
Later life and death
From 1913 until his death, Sawyier lived in a converted chapel at "Highpoint," the estate of art patron Mrs. Marshall L. Emory in the New York Catskills. On November 5, 1917, at the age of 52, Sawyier died of a heart attack. He was buried in a cemetery in Fleischmanns, New York. Later that year, he was interred in the Sawyier-Wingate family plot in the Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky. At the time of his death it is estimated that he painted 3,000 works, mostly watercolor landscapes.[1]
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External links
- Paul Sawyier Gallery
- Paul Sawyier at Find a Grave.com
- Library named for the artist in Frankfort, KY
- Paul Sawyier paintings at the Kentucky Historical Society
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