The following text was written and submitted by Robert S. Fastov:August Herman Olson Rolle was born to Norwegian immigrant parents on a farm in Sibley County, Minnesota on March 30, 1975 and died in... Read full biography
The following text was written and submitted by Robert S. Fastov:August Herman Olson Rolle was born to Norwegian immigrant parents on a farm in Sibley County, Minnesota on March 30, 1975 and died in Washington, D.C. ("D.C.") on October 9, 1941. He attended Red Wing Seminary in Red Wing, Minnesota,... Read full biography
The following text was written and submitted by Robert S. Fastov:August Herman Olson Rolle was born to Norwegian immigrant parents on a farm in Sibley County, Minnesota on March 30, 1975 and died in Washington, D.C. ("D.C.") on October 9, 1941. He attended Red Wing Seminary in Red Wing, Minnesota, studying business and law until 1892. He worked for the Willcox Lumber Company of Lake Park, Minnesota, before he "remembered the Maine" and joined the US Army in June, 1898. Rolle served during the... Read full biography
The following text was written and submitted by Robert S. Fastov:August Herman Olson Rolle was born to Norwegian immigrant parents on a farm in Sibley County, Minnesota on March 30, 1975 and died in Washington, D.C. ("D.C.") on October 9, 1941. He attended Red Wing Seminary in Red Wing, Minnesota, studying business and law until 1892. He worked for the Willcox Lumber Company of Lake Park, Minnesota, before he "remembered the Maine" and joined the US Army in June, 1898. Rolle served during the Spanish-American War with the 3rd U.S. Infantry at Fort Snelling, Minnesota and fought in a small police action against the Chippewa tribe. Rolle's earliest known work is a fine sanguine sketch of a seated young soldier holding a rifle at Fort... Read full biography
The following text was written and submitted by Robert S. Fastov:August Herman Olson Rolle was born to Norwegian immigrant parents on a farm in Sibley County, Minnesota on March 30, 1975 and died in Washington, D.C. ("D.C.") on October 9, 1941. He attended Red Wing Seminary in Red Wing, Minnesota, studying business and law until 1892. He worked for the Willcox Lumber Company of Lake Park, Minnesota, before he "remembered the Maine" and joined the US Army in June, 1898. Rolle served during the Spanish-American War with the 3rd U.S. Infantry at Fort Snelling, Minnesota and fought in a small police action against the Chippewa tribe. Rolle's earliest known work is a fine sanguine sketch of a seated young soldier holding a rifle at Fort Snelling. He married Anna Ebeltoft and had a daughter, Maxine, in 1902. He came to D.C. in 1900, where he joined the U.S.... Read full biography
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About August Rolle: Books
Books & Publications (18)
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists, English Version and Online (Fourteen Volumes)
2006
Benezit, E
0 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Early Art and Artists in West Virginia
2000
Cuthbert, John A.
301 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Artists of Washington DC 1796-1996
1996
McMahan, Virgil E
240 pages
The Seascapes and Waterviews of August H.O. Rolle Calvert Marine Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Fastov, Robert S.
15 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Impressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Gerdts, William H
336 pages (color)
The Capital Image Painters in Washington 1800-1915 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cosentino, Andrew; Henry H. Glassie
280 pages (color)
Washington on the Potomac (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Corcoran Gallery of Art (Linda Crocker Simmons)
16 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Index to Artistic Biography (Three Volumes)
1973
Havlice, Patricia Pate
2,315 pages
A Dictionary of American Artists, Sculptors and Engravers: From the Beginnings Through the Turn of the Twentieth Century
1968
Young, William
515 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index