RARE LISTED SIGNED ABRAHAM LINCOLN WATERCOLOR PORTRAIT

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RARE LISTED SIGNED ABRAHAM LINCOLN WATERCOLOR PORTRAIT

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Sold Date: 09/13/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Fraternal, Political, Organizations

is a major work of watercolor of the most important president painted by one of the most important watercolorists, Joseph (J.) Frank Copeland (1872-1957) -- - known also as "J. Frank Copeland" and 'Frank Copeland." For more on Copeland, whose work has been displayed in major venues such as the Philadelphia Art Museum, see:
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The following biography of Copeland, available at
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offers further insight into his remarkable career:
"Up to the time he was eleven years old, Frank Copeland, just an average boy in a small mid-western town, had taken no interest in the drawing lessons as then given in the public schools which he attended. . . . . Cast drawing in the evening school of the Buffalo Art Academy was his first serious contact with art study. This was followed later by association with a landscape painter in oil and water color. Many sketching trips with the fascination study of color and landscape under the guidance of a veteran were the result of this contact. A visit to the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, with its great art exhibition and its impressive architectural setting , so fired the ambition of the boy that he determined to enter an art school at the first opportunity. This came a few years later when he obtained a scholarship at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia, supporting himself by work with the Air Brush in spare time, consisting mainly of the drawing of figure cartoons for stained glass. he found the training in fundamentals for which he was longing -- drawing, design, color, modeling, decoration, the history of art, ornament, and of architecture. He drank in these things like a thirsty sponge under the guidance of H.F. Stratton, the director of the school and Leslie W. Miller its principal. On the invitation of the instructor of antique and life drawing, Frank demonstrated the use of the Air Brush in drawing from the cast, producing. to their astonishment a highly finished drawing in three hours. This probably constitutes the first invasion of an art school by modern machine methods on record. The subject was an antique torso, full size, and the drawing hung for years in the school's permanent exhibit at the Pennsylvania Museum. At the end of his first year's work, having won the highest honor, the President's Prize, he was given a part time teaching position and continued his studies until he had received all the credits which the school had to give, including its Diploma and the unique certificate of "Teacher of Interior Decoration", the one that the school has ever issued. Training in ornamental sculpture under Alexander Stirling Calder, in pottery under Leon Volkmar, in water color under H.F. Stratton and Charles R. Dana, in decorative figure painting and composition under H.F. Stratton and Herman Deigendesch, formed the solid foundation on which his life work has been built. For thirty eight years a member of the faculty of the Pennsylvania Museum Schools as a teacher and lecturer in many subjects. He has , in all that period served fully half of his time for personal work in the field of mural decoration and stained glass, executing commissions too numerous to be mentioned. He likes to recall that the first important commission as a mural painter was the decoration of the auditorium of the Trenton High School at Trenton N.J. in 1907, since which time he has placed mural paintings and stained glass in many other schools. In 1902-03 the opportunity was presented to write and illustrate a series of text-books for the International Text-book Co. for use in the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pa. The first of this series was on Water Color Painting and was illustrated pr...