Daniel Bigelow - Artist Info

About Daniel Bigelow

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    The following was submitted by Antoinette Vaughn:

    Daniel Bigelow was born in 1823 at Peru, Clinton County, New York. He moved to Chicago in 1858, where he became well known as a landscape painter.

    Bigelow became one of the associates of G.P.A. Healy, and the group of artists who founded the Chicago Academy of Design. He died in Chicago in 1910.
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    Daniel Folger Bigelow, a landscape and still life painter, was born at Peru, Clinton County (N.Y.), July 22, 1823. Bigelow is said to have received his first instruction in art from a cousin of Hiram Powers. He moved to Chicago in 1858, there winning considerable reputation as a landscape painter and becoming o...

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