... , where he exhibited some early work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Catlin remained in the city for approximately four years and took some formal art study during this period, but little information exists regarding his early training. He certainly knew the work of the Philadelphia portraist Thomas Sully, and he became close ... certain fame. Catlin's first trip west was in 1830. With the encouragement of General William Clark, the famous explorer who was then serving as Superintendent of the Indian Affairs for the Western tribes and Governor of the Missouri Territory, the ...

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... Frederick Remington. He defined the myths and the realties of the American West. Frederick Remington was born in Canton, New York in 1841. Remington loved art even as a child. He was always drawing sketches of his fellow students at his school, Highland Academy. Remington later went to the Yale School ... was a young man his family had financial trouble, forcing him to quit school and work as a clerk. Remington was very uninterested in his job, and art consumed his mind and energy. In 1881, Remington left home and went on a trip to the place he had wanted to see since he was a ... time....

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... also expressed a desire to become a painter. After taking secretarial courses at Carlisle Commercial College (1910-1911), she taught bookkeeping, stenography, and typing and commercial English and law at the U.S. Industrial Indian School at Carlisle with admirable success until 1915. One of her students was Jim Thorpe, the famous Native American athlete. In the summer of 1911 Moore and her mother traveled ... in England, Scotland, and France, and while abroad they visited art museums in Glasgow, Oxford, London, and Paris. In 1915 Moore began to publish poems professionally. Seven poems ...

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