... chaperoning a private art tutoring class at a boy's school, a young art professor after viewing her attempts to draw recommended she attend art school. In 1884, she enrolled in the School of Design for Women in Philadelphia. There she excelled in all areas and even became proficient in clay sculpture. In 1885, Smith enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, also in ... , Smith worked on a series of paintings that were published as illustrations for the book Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Smith's illustrations for this work were of a delicate nature, possessing a certa...

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... ," Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. At the age of 17, he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology where he majored in pictorial design. Upon graduation, Andy Warhol moved to New York where, in 1949, he began to work as an illustrator for several magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and The New Yorker (Francis ... a Job in New York (Francis, 54). Throughout the 1950s, Warhol enjoyed great success as a commercial artist. He won several commendations from the Art Director's Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In th...

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