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1832 Portsmouth, New Hampshire - 1865. Known for: Newspaper illustration drawing, war images.
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Throughout the Civil War, William Crane worked as a "special artist" for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, which published 244 of his drawings. In addition, under orders from General Quincy A.... Read full biography
Throughout the Civil War, William Crane worked as a "special artist" for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, which published 244 of his drawings. In addition, under orders from General Quincy A. Gilmore, Crane drew a series of sequential views of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in the summer of... Read full biography
Throughout the Civil War, William Crane worked as a "special artist" for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, which published 244 of his drawings. In addition, under orders from General Quincy A. Gilmore, Crane drew a series of sequential views of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in the summer of 1863 depicting the stages of the fort's demolition during a prolonged Union bombardment. General Gilmore included these detailed and shocking drawings in his final report to the War Department on... Read full biography
Throughout the Civil War, William Crane worked as a "special artist" for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, which published 244 of his drawings. In addition, under orders from General Quincy A. Gilmore, Crane drew a series of sequential views of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in the summer of 1863 depicting the stages of the fort's demolition during a prolonged Union bombardment. General Gilmore included these detailed and shocking drawings in his final report to the War Department on these operations, later reproduced in the government's Official Records, Volume 28, Part 1. The Becker Collection contains drawings done by Crane in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida between 1861 and 1865. Source:. The Becker... Read full biography
Throughout the Civil War, William Crane worked as a "special artist" for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, which published 244 of his drawings. In addition, under orders from General Quincy A. Gilmore, Crane drew a series of sequential views of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in the summer of 1863 depicting the stages of the fort's demolition during a prolonged Union bombardment. General Gilmore included these detailed and shocking drawings in his final report to the War Department on these operations, later reproduced in the government's Official Records, Volume 28, Part 1. The Becker Collection contains drawings done by Crane in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida between 1861 and 1865. Source:. The Becker Collection, Drawings of the American Civil War Era. http://idesweb.bc.edu/becker/artists/crane
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Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesThe Civil War A Centenial Exhibition of Eyewitness Drawings
1961
(Exhibition catalog)National Gallery of Art153 pagesThe New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pagesArtists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900
1953Taft, Robert400 pages