藝術家Robert SHAW (1859-1912) 生平簡歷

出生地： Wilmington, DE

死亡地点： Wilmington

地址： Wilmington, DE

职业： Painter, etcher, pyroengraver, illustrator

教育： with Homer A. Herr, also possibly with Henry Price.

展出： PAFA Ann., 1887-88, 1890; Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893; American WC Soc, 1896-1901; AIC

会员： Phila. Sketch Club; Phila. SE (only out-of-town member)

工作： series of plates, New York Hist. Soc.; LOC; Delaware Hist. Soc.; PMA; Delaware Art Mus.; Pennsylvania Hist. Soc.

评论： Impaired through a childhood disease, he lived most of his life on the family farm, taking trips around the Delaware valley, visiting Britain in 1885-86, Southern Calif. c.1893, Britain and France in 1897-98, the Hudson River Valley in 1902 and the Delaware Water Gap in 1911. Specialty: hist. subjects; arch. views and landscapes. Drew and engraved a view of the Wren Building of the College of William and Mary. His American Memorial Etchings set (1904-10), published in New York received wide-spread distribution and is mentioned in Frank Weitenkamp's American Graphic Art, 1912. Most of his surviving paintings are bucolic watercolors. He was a contemporary of Wilmington artists Howard Pyle and J.D. Chalfant (see entries on both).

来源： Wright, Artists in Virgina Before 1900; Falk, Exh. Record Series; add'l info. courtesy of Thomas Beckman, Hist. Soc. of Delaware; Beckman is also the author of The Etchings of Robert Shaw," Delaware History, vol. 24, no. 2 (Fall-Winter, 1990): 75-108."