Wilder M. Darling, painter and teacher was born in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1855. Little is known of "the Dean of Toledo painters" early years and his biography can only be pieced together from sketchy... Read full biography
Wilder M. Darling, painter and teacher was born in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1855. Little is known of "the Dean of Toledo painters" early years and his biography can only be pieced together from sketchy details. He was still in his teens in his native Sandusky, Ohio, when he chose an art career. He... Read full biography
Wilder M. Darling, painter and teacher was born in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1855. Little is known of "the Dean of Toledo painters" early years and his biography can only be pieced together from sketchy details. He was still in his teens in his native Sandusky, Ohio, when he chose an art career. He trained first in Cincinnati, perhaps at the McMicken School of Design under Henry Mosler. Sometime in the mid- 1870s he went for further study to Munich, where he may have spent twelve years. It is possible... Read full biography
Wilder M. Darling, painter and teacher was born in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1855. Little is known of "the Dean of Toledo painters" early years and his biography can only be pieced together from sketchy details. He was still in his teens in his native Sandusky, Ohio, when he chose an art career. He trained first in Cincinnati, perhaps at the McMicken School of Design under Henry Mosler. Sometime in the mid- 1870s he went for further study to Munich, where he may have spent twelve years. It is possible that he attended the informal classes conducted by Frank Duveneck, a fellow Cincinnatian, in Munich and Polling from 1877 to 1878; he was enrolled at the Royal Academy of Munich at some time in the mid- 1880s. He seems to have received training from... Read full biography
Wilder M. Darling, painter and teacher was born in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1855. Little is known of "the Dean of Toledo painters" early years and his biography can only be pieced together from sketchy details. He was still in his teens in his native Sandusky, Ohio, when he chose an art career. He trained first in Cincinnati, perhaps at the McMicken School of Design under Henry Mosler. Sometime in the mid- 1870s he went for further study to Munich, where he may have spent twelve years. It is possible that he attended the informal classes conducted by Frank Duveneck, a fellow Cincinnatian, in Munich and Polling from 1877 to 1878; he was enrolled at the Royal Academy of Munich at some time in the mid- 1880s. He seems to have received training from Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris, probably at the Academie Julian. By 1887 he was at work with Henry Mosler, and a year later with Fernand Cormon... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (14)
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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
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Blaugrund, Annette
304 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Wilder Darling: Jesse Deviney The Dean and His Student (Exhibition catalog)