Birth Dates of Notable Kentuckians: October 15, 1912 – Carl Perkins

 

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From The Kentucky Encyclopedia -
Among the last of the New Deal liberals, Carl Dexter Perkins, who served eastern Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives, was born October 15, 1912, in Hindman, Kentucky. He was the son of James Elbert Perkins, a lawyer, and Dora (Calhoun) Perkins, a teacher. Following his education in the Knott County Schools, at Caney Junior College (now Alice Lloyd ), and at Lees College, he taught in a remote Knott County school. In 1935 he graduated from the University of Louisville law school. He entered private practice for the next three years, during which he married Verna Johnson, a teacher. They had one child, Carl Christopher. Perkins completed an unexpired term as commonwealth attorney in 1939 and the following year was elected to the Kentucky General Assembly . He was elected Knott County attorney in 1941, and again in 1945, his tenure interrupted by combat service in the European theater during World War II.

A Democrat from Kentucky's mountainous 7th District, Perkins was first elected to Congress in 1948 and began to serve on January 3, 1949. He was appointed to the House Education and Labor Committee, arena for many of the ideological struggles over the social agenda of the federal government. A conservative coalition on the committee frustrated many liberal initiatives supported by Perkins, but the landslide election of 1964 produced a liberal majority sufficient to enact legislation fundamental to President Lyndon Johnson's program. Perkins became chairman of the committee in 1967, as it prepared to consider major antipoverty legislation. Many doubted whether the unsophisticated country lawyer was equal to the demands of his new position, but Perkins's diligence, persistent commitment to liberal principles, mastery of congressional procedures, and skills of personal persuasion soon gained him a reputation as one of the most influential men in Washington.

Perkins became a champion of the rights of labor, one of the nation's foremost advocates of federal social welfare programs for the disadvantaged, and, in the words of the former president of the National Education Association, Mary Hatwood Futrell, "the father of virtually every postwar federal education program." Perkins's bill supporting vocational education became law in 1963. The following year his committee produced landmark legislation to provide financial aid to disadvantaged college students, and, for the first time, extend general federal aid to elementary and secondary education. Perkins helped formulate the Economic Opportunity Act, centerpiece of Johnson's War on Poverty, and was one of its strongest advocates. He was a champion of the Head Start program, the school lunch program, adult education, federal assistance to libraries, and federal aid for the construction of highways and hospitals in the depressed Appalachian region. An early supporter of civil rights, Perkins backed President Harry S. Truman's attempt to establish a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, and was one of eleven Southern Democrats to vote for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He also wrote federal legislation to improve safety standards in coal mines and to extend compensation to victims of black lung disease.

In his final years, Perkins fought vigorously to protect federal education and social welfare programs from budget cuts, and he emerged as a leading Democratic spokesman in opposition to the Reagan administration. Perkins died of a massive heart attack on August 3, 1984, en route from Washington to his home in Hindman and was buried in Perkins Cemetery, Leburn, Kentucky.

DANIEL G. STROUP, Entry Author

Selected Sources from UK Libraries:

Appalshop, Inc. A Tribute to Carl D. Perkins. Whitesburg, KY: Appalshop, 1984.
SC-V3415, Young Media Library

Reeves, Andrée E., and University Press of Kentucky. Congressional Committee Chairmen : Three Who Made an Evolution. Lexington: U of Kentucky, 1993. Print. Comparative Legislative Studies.
JK1430.E352 R44 1993, Young Library - 4th Floor

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, Together with Tributes Presented in Eulogy of Carl D. Perkins, Late a Representative from Kentucky, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1984. Print.
Y 7.1:P 41/3, Young Library - U.S. Government Publications (5th floor)

Birth Dates of Notable Kentuckians: October 23, 1918 - Paul Rudolph

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Paul Marvin Rudolph (October 23, 1918 – August 8, 1997) was an American architect and the Chair of Yale University's Department of Architecture for six years, known for his use of concrete and highly complex floor plans. His most famous work is the Yale Art and Architecture Building (A&A Building), a spatially complex brutalist concrete structure.

Early life, education and personal life
Paul Marvin Rudolph was born October 23, 1918 in Elkton, Kentucky. His father was an itinerant Methodist preacher, and through their travels Rudolph was exposed to the architecture of the American south. He also showed early talent at painting and music.[1] Rudolph earned his bachelor's degree in architecture at Auburn University (then known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute) in 1940 and then moved on to the Harvard Graduate School of Design to study with Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius. After three years, he left to serve in the Navy for another three years, returning to Harvard to receive his master's in 1947.[1] Rudolph was known to be gay.[2][3] He is one of the modernist architecture architects considered part the Sarasota School of Architecture.

Work
Following his studies at Harvard, Rudolph moved to Sarasota, Florida, and partnered with Ralph Twitchell for four years until he started his own practice in 1952. Rudolph's Sarasota time is now part of the period labeled Sarasota School of Architecture in his career.

Notable for its appearance in the 1958 book Masters of Modern Architecture, the W. R. Healy House – nicknamed The Cocoon House – was a one-story guest house built in 1950 on Siesta Key, Sarasota, Florida. The roof was concave and was constructed using a built-up spray-on process that Rudolph had seen used to cocoon disused ships during his time in the US Navy (hence, the house's nickname). In addition, Rudolph used jalousie windows, which enabled the characteristic breezes to and from the Sarasota Bay to flow through the house.

Other Sarasota landmarks by Rudolph include the Riverview High School, built in 1957 as his first large-scale project. In 2006, there was a great deal of controversy in Sarasota when many members of the community appealed for the retention of the historic building after the decision reached by the county school board to demolish the structure. As Charles Gwathmey, the architect overseeing renovation of Art and Architecture Building at Yale, said:

“Riverview High School is a fantastic prototype of what today we call green architecture. He was so far ahead of his time, experimenting with sun screens and cross-ventilation. If it's torn down, I feel badly for architecture.[4]”

In June 2009, Riverview High School was demolished.[5]

Another school building in Sarasota designed by Rudolph was the 1958 addition to Sarasota High School, a concrete structure that utilized large overhanging sunshades and "internal" yet outside corridors with natural ventilation. This building, along with a gymnasium structure built at the same time, is (as of December 2013) undergoing renovation by the Sarasota County School Board, which will reinstate the building's 1958 exterior appearance but contain a completely new interior layout devoid of Rudolph's original ideas.[6]

In the late 1950s, Paul Rudolph's Florida houses began to attract attention outside of the architectural community and he started receiving commissions for larger works such as the Jewett Art Center at Wellesley College. He then took the chairmanship of the Yale School of Architecture Department of Architecture in 1958, shortly after designing the Yale Art & Architecture Building. Rudolph stayed at Yale for six years until he returned to private practice. He designed the Temple Street Parking Garage, also in New Haven, in 1962.

While chair of the Department of Architecture at Yale, Rudolph taught Muzharul Islam, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, all attending the Master's course as scholarship students. Foster in particular has noted the significant influence that Rudolph had upon him.[7] Rudolph was invited to Bangladesh by Muzharul Islam and designed Bangladesh Agricultural University.

He worked on the Milam Residence, which was designed and constructed between 1959 and 1961. It still stands today on Florida's eastern coast, outside Jacksonville. Here, the only dimensional control was the size of standard concrete blocks that were used (8 x 8 x 16 in), fair-faced, for structural and partition walls alike. The large blocks provide shade for the windows, allowing the Florida home to be easily cooled. This house's seaside facade of stacked rectangles exemplifies the sculptural nature of Rudolph's work during this period. From inside the structure, Rudolf wanted the inhabitants to locate themselves according to mood, so the large two-story window in the living room contrasts other areas of the home which feel more cave-like and secluded. Rudolph's fascination with European Modernism and the neo-Classical theory made this a difficult building to construct. Rudolph had to show concern for multiple influences as well as his own style. At the time, Rudolph was working independently and would later become an icon in European Modernism.[citation needed]

In 1958, Rudolph was commissioned to create a master plan for Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. He also collaborated with graduates of Tuskegee's architecture school on the design of a new chapel building, completed in 1969.

He later designed the Government Service Center in Boston, First Church in Boston, the main campus of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (originally known as Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute, and later as the Southeastern Massachusetts University), the Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College, the Endo Pharmaceuticals Building, the Dana Arts Center at Colgate University, and the Burroughs Wellcome headquarters in North Carolina.

While the Brutalist style fell out of favor in the U.S. during the 1970s,[8] Rudolph's work evolved, and became in demand in other countries. Rudolph designed reflective glass office towers in this period, such as the City Center Towers in Fort Worth, Texas, which departed from his concrete works. Rudolph continued working on projects in Singapore, where he designed The Concourse office tower with its ribbon windows and interweaving floors, as well as projects in other Asian countries through the last years of his life. His work, the Lippo Centre, completed in 1987, is located in the area near Admiralty Station of MTR in Hong Kong, and a culmination of Rudolph's ideas in reflective glass. In Indonesia Rudolph pieces of art can be found in Jakarta, Wisma Dharmala Sakti, and in Surabaya, Wisma Dharmala Sakti 2.

Paul Rudolph donated his archive,[9] spanning his entire career, to the Library of Congress, as well donating as all intellectual property rights to the American people. His bequest also helped to establish the Center for Architecture, Design, and Engineering [10] at the Library of Congress.

The Paul Rudolph Penthouse & Apartments (1977–82), at 23 Beekman Place in Manhattan, was designated a New York City Landmark in 2010.[11]

Death
Rudolph died in 1997 at the age of seventy-eight in New York from peritoneal mesothelioma.

Gallery



Wisma Dharmala Sakti office tower, Jakarta




A portion of Riverview High School in 2007










The Art & Architecture Building (renamed Rudolph Hall in 2008) houses the Yale School of Architecture and is one of Paul Rudolph's best known works.

   

Milam Residence, completed in 1961, just outside of Jacksonville, Florida, in the suburb of Ponte Vedra Beach

 

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Claire T Carney Library

 

Early design for The Concourse office tower, Singapore

 

The Lippo Centre, 1987, by Paul Rudolph, landmark twin towers in Hong Kong


See also Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph

References
1. Christopher Domin, Joseph King (2005). Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 26. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter
2. Deyan Sudjic (2010). Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture. Penguin.
3. David Colman (October 2011). "Master Builder: Architect Paul Rudolph's career was as dramatic as his buildings". Elle Decor. "Other issues contributed to Rudolph's loss of status: the rise of postmodernism, which he hated; the end of enthusiasm for the ambitious government buildings he loved; the fact that he was gay in a predominantly straight industry."
4. "Time Is Running Out for a Celebrated Building" by David Hay, page A19, June 21, 2008 The New York Times.
5. "Rudolph's Riverview High School Demolished," [1] DoCoMoMo (International working party for documentation and conservation of building sites and neighborhoods of the modern movement), July 11, 2009.
6. Rehab would alter Sarasota High's open-air interior by Harold Bubil February 8, 2013 Herald-Tribune
7. Sudjic, Deyan (2010). Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture. Overlook Press. ISBN 9781468302769.
8. "Architects: Brutalism". Circa Design.
9. Paul Rudolph Archive. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
10. Center for Architecture, Design, and Engineering. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
11. 2390.pdf

Further reading
Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl (1970). The Architecture of Paul Rudolph. Praeger. ISBN 0-500-09057-2.
Monk, Tony (1999). The Art and Architecture of Paul Rudolph. Wiley-Academy. ISBN 0-471-99778-1.
Domin, Christopher; King, Joseph (2005). Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1-56898-551-7.
De Alba, Roberto (2003). Paul Rudolph: The Late Work. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1-56898-401-4.
Rohan, Timothy M. (2014). The Architecture of Paul Rudolph. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300149395.

External links
The Paul Rudolph Foundation - dedicated to furthering the preservation, knowledge and understanding of Paul Rudolph's work.
Blog of Paul Rudolph related news maintained by the Paul Rudolph Foundation.
The Art & Architecture of Paul Rudolph - a Flickr group dedicated to Paul Rudolph's buildings - over 3,600 images from around the world
The Paul Rudolph and His Architecture Web Site
Paul Rudolph at greatbuildings.com
Paul Rudolph at arbitat.com
A Road Trip Back to The Future"; The New York Times: account by architecture critic of visits to Rudolph buildings within a day's drive of New York area.
Rethinking Preservation: A Case for Paul Rudolph's BCBS Building
Yale University School of Architecture
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/tisue/sets/72157602770380512/

Selected Sources from UK Libraries:

Rudolph, Paul. Paul Rudolph : Architectural Drawings. London: Lund Humphries, 1974. Print.
Design Library Special Collections (NA737.R8 A56)

Monk, Tony. The Art and Architecture of Paul Rudolph. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Academy, 1999. Print.
Design Library Book Stacks (NA737.R8 M66 1999)

Domin, Christopher., and Joseph. King. Paul Rudolph : The Florida Houses. 1st ed. New York: Princeton Architectural, 2002. Print.
Design Library Book Stacks (NA737.R8 A4 2002)

Birth Dates of Notable Kentuckians: October 12, 1912 – Mary Eugenia Wharton

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From The Kentucky Encyclopedia -

Author, botanist, geologist, educator, and activist Mary Eugenia Wharton was born October 12, 1912, in Jessamine County to Joseph Felix and Mayme (Davis) Wharton. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky (1935) and a master's degree (1936) and doctorate (1946) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She taught botany at Morehead State University and the University of Tennessee, and geology at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts. In 1942, Wharton discovered an unnamed species of dewberry in Montgomery County, Kentucky, and it was named in her honor, RUBUS WHARTONIAE.

 From 1947 to 1974, Wharton chaired the biology department at Georgetown College . In 1976, Georgetown awarded her an honorary doctor of laws degree, and in 1986, dedicated the botanical wing of their science center as the Mary Wharton Botanical Wing. In 1971, she co-authored, with Roger W. Barbour, A Guide to the Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky. The two collaborated again in 1973 on Trees and Shrubs of Kentucky and in 1991 on Bluegrass Land and Life: Land Character, Plants, and Animals of the Inner Bluegrass Region of Kentucky, Past, Present and Future. She was a co-editor of Peach Leather and Rebel Gray: Bluegrass Life and the War, 1860-1865 (1986) and associate editor and principal author of The Horse World of the Bluegrass (1980). Wharton was named Distinguished Scientist of Kentucky by the Kentucky Academy of Science and was designated Outstanding Naturalist of Kentucky by the Kentucky Society of Natural History.

As an environmental activist, Wharton was one of the principal opponents of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' plan in the 1960s to build a 5,000-acre impoundment on the North Fork of the Red River. The 25,630-acre Red River Gorge was given federal protective status as a national geological area in 1976. Wharton also assisted in defeating one of the early plans to widen Paris Pike, between Lexington and Paris. She was one of the founders of the Land and Nature Trust of the Bluegrass, and served the organization as president and chairman of the board. In 1987, she was named by the trust as the " Outstanding Citizen of The Bluegrass," the first person so honored.

In 1958, Mary Wharton began acquiring land for a nature sanctuary, which, in the end, amounted to nine parcels of land, totaling 278 acres on the Kentucky River, near Elk Lick Creek in southern Fayette County . Her purpose was "to protect unique and endangered elements of the Bluegrass region," she said. Generations of her students have since used this area for research and study. She donated a portion of the land to the Urban County Government as a conservation easement, but the entire area, called since her death the Mary E. Wharton Nature Sanctuary at Floracliff, was left in trust (with means for its maintenance) for use by the students of Kentucky's colleges.

Wharton's last book, Bluegrass Land & Life, was an effort to bequeath to Kentuckians an understanding of the unique qualities of the Bluegrass region that would move them to preserve it for the future.

Wharton lived most of her life in Lexington's Fayette Park in the house her grandmother purchased in 1905. She died there, after an eighteen-year battle with heart disease, November 28, 1991, and was buried in the Lexington Cemetery .

Selected Sources from UK Libraries:

Wharton, Mary E., and Roger W. Barbour. A Guide to the Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky. Reprinted with Corrections.. ed. Lexington]: U of Kentucky, 1979. Print. Kentucky Nature Studies ; 1.

QK 162 W554g 1971, Young Library -- 5th Floor

Wharton, Mary E., and Roger W. Barbour. Trees & Shrubs of Kentucky. Lexington: U of Kentucky, 1973. Print. Kentucky Nature Studies ; 4.

QK484 .K4 W46, Young Library -- 5th Floor

Wharton, Mary E., and Roger W. Barbour. Bluegrass Land & Life : Land Character, Plants, and Animals of the Inner Bluegrass Region of Kentucky, Past, Present, and Future. Lexington: U of Kentucky, 1991. Print.

QH105.K4 W43 1991, Young Library -- 5th Floor

Birth Dates of Notable Kentuckians: October 9, 1848 – Frank Duveneck

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From The Kentucky Encyclopedia –
One of the most influential artists of the American Realist movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Frank Duveneck was born in Covington, Kentucky, on October 9, 1848, to Francis and Catherine Decker. His father, a cobbler, died of cholera in 1849, and his mother married Squire Joseph Duveneck, a grocer and justice of the peace whose name the artist adopted. The artist was descended from the German settlers who came to the Cincinnati and northern Kentucky area from Westphalia.

Duveneck's early training came at the Institute of Catholic Art in Covington, which produced religious artwork for Roman Catholic churches in North America. Duveneck worked with the Benedictine brothers who ran the institute from the age of fourteen until his twenty-first birthday, when his stepfather agreed to finance his study at the Royal Academy in Munich. During 1870, his first year in Munich, Duveneck won every prize given by the academy. When his paintings were exhibited in Boston in 1875, they were praised in critical essays by Henry James in The Galaxy and The Nation in 1875, and Duveneck was called the "greatest genius of the American brush" by John Singer Sargent. In 1877 Duveneck returned to Europe to teach, first in Polling, Bavaria, and later in Italy, having at times as many as one hundred students enrolled in his classes.

Duveneck was strongly influenced by the Dutch artists Franz Hals and Rembrandt as well as the contemporary French Realists Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet. Alex von Saldern, director of the Kunstmuseum Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf, described Duveneck as "the bridge between European and American Realism." Duveneck's influence as a teacher is his most important contribution to American art. His students were to be found in almost every art school and academy in American in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and his influence on Realism as a style of painting was significant. He achieved the distinction of being one of the first Americans to teach large numbers of American painters in Europe. A painter's painter, he had an appeal to human interest that extended beyond the boundaries of the studio.

Frank Duveneck married Elizabeth Otis Lyman Boott in Paris, France, on March 25, 1886; they had one son, Frank Boott. Elizabeth is thought to have been the model for female figures in Henry James's novels, according to James's biographer Leon Edel. Following his wife's death, Duveneck returned to Covington, Kentucky, where he opened a studio on Greenup Street. He began teaching at the Cincinnati Art Academy in 1900 and became the director in 1904, a position he held until his death. He was one of the founders of the Cincinnati Art Club, where he gave painting demonstrations. In 1915 Duveneck won a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. He was awarded an honorable mention in sculpture in the Paris Salon of 1895, and as a printmaker, he ranked with James McNeil Abbott Whistler.

Following Duveneck's death in January 3, 1919, in Cincinnati, his works were acquired by most major museums in the Unites States and Europe. The largest collections of his paintings, sculptures, and prints are at the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Frank Duveneck Memorial Gallery in Covington, Kentucky. Duveneck was buried in the Mother of God Cemetery in Kenton County.

WILLIAM R. BOOTH, Entry Author

Selected Sources from UK Libraries:

Neuhaus, Robert. Unsuspected Genius : The Art and Life of Frank Duveneck. San Francisco: Bedford, 1987. Print.
ND 237 .D85 N4 1987, Fine Arts Library – Oversize

Quick, Michael., and Cincinnati Art Museum. An American Painter Abroad : Frank Duveneck's European Years. Cincinnati, Ohio: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1987. Print.
ND237.D85 A4 1987, Fine Arts Library

Duveneck, Josephine Whitney. Frank Duveneck: Painter-teacher. San Francisco: John Howell-, 1970. Print.
ND 237 .D85 D86, Fine Arts Library

Birth Dates of Notable Kentuckians: October 6, 1869 – Enid Yandell

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From The Kentucky Encyclopedia -

Enid Yandell, sculptor, was born on October 6, 1869, to Louisville physician Lunsford Yandell, Jr., and Nashville native Louise (Elliston) Yandell. She studied at the Cincinnati Academy of Art and in Paris with Frederick MacMonnies and Auguste Rodin. Yandell's first major commission, designing the caryatids for the Women's Building of the 1893 Columbian Exposition at Chicago, earned a gold medal. Yandell is best known for her public statuary, including the Hogan Fountain (1905) and the Daniel Boone statue in Louisville's Cherokee Park, the twelve-foot statue of John Thomas (1907) for Nashville's Centennial Park, and a kneeling figure of Narraganset chieftain Ninigret (1913) in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The Boone statue in Louisville, originally produced in plaster for the Filson Club to exhibit at the 1893 exposition in Chicago, was cast in bronze in 1906. In the 1960s a copy of the Boone figure was cast for Eastern Kentucky University's campus.

 Although most of Yandell's statuary is found in public and private collections along the East Coast, a few of her smaller works are in Kentucky. Plaster busts of John B. Castleman and the " Hunchback of Notre Dame" belong to the Louisville Free Public Library; a bust of James Rucker is on exhibit at Georgetown College; the Filson Club owns her bust of Reuben T. Durrett; and a bust of William Goebel , which Yandell modeled for his cemetery monument, is part of the Kentucky Historical Society collection. Following her death on June 13, 1934, Louisville's J.B. Speed Art Museum received plaster casts for about twenty of Yandell's figurines, bas reliefs, and busts.

Yandell was a member of the National Sculpture Society and the French Academy, and she exhibited her work in at least twenty-seven major shows in the United States and France. She was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery ,Louisville.

NANCY D. BAIRD, Entry Author

Selected Sources from UK Libraries:

Yandell, Enid., and Laura Hayes. Three Girls in a Flat. Chicago: Press of Knight, Leonard &, 1892. Print.

PS3364.Y3 T470 1892, Special Collections Research Center

O'Malley, Mimi. More than Petticoats. Remarkable Kentucky Women. Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot, 2012. Print. More than Petticoats Ser.

CT3262.K46 O43 2012, Special Collections Research Center - Room 019

Birth Dates of Notable Kentuckians: October 5, 1851 – Thomas Pollock Anshutz

The Ironworker's Noontime.
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From the Kentucky Encyclopedia –
Thomas Pollock Anshutz, painter and teacher, was born October 5, 1851, in Newport, Kentucky, to Jacob and Jane Abigail (Pollock) Anshutz. In 1868 his family moved to Wheeling, West Virginia. Anshutz studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City (1872-75); under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts until 1881; and in Paris at the Academie Julien. He succeeded Eakins as teacher of painting at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1896 and became head of the faculty there in 1909. Among Anshutz's pupils were John Sloan, John Marin, and Charles Demuth. His landscape On the Ohio is based on boyhood memories and impressions of Kentucky. Anshutz was a member of the Philadelphia Water Color Club and National Academy of Design. In September 1892 Anshutz married Effie Schriver Russell of Wheeling, West Virginia. He died at his home in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, on June 16, 1912.

Selected Source from UK Libraries:

Griffin, Randall C., Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Thomas Pollock Anshutz. Homer, Eakins, and Anshutz : The Search for American Identity in the Gilded Age. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State U, 2004. Print.
ND210 .G75 2004, Fine Arts Library

Other Sources:

Thomas Anshutz at American Art Gallery
http://americanartgallery.org/artist/home/id/107

Thomas Pollock Anshutz at Museum Syndicate
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=364

Birth Dates of Notable Kentuckians: October 5, 1932 – Ed McClanahan

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From The Kentucky Encyclopedia –
Edward Poage McClanahan, author, the son of Edward Leroy and Jesse (Poage) McClanahan, was born in Brooksville, Kentucky, on October 5, 1932. He attended school there and in Maysville, where the family moved in 1948. He received a bachelor of arts in English from Miami University in Ohio in 1955 and a master of arts in English from the University of Kentucky in 1958. He taught at Oregon State University from 1958 to 1962, when he received a Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University in California. He stayed on at Stanford as E.H. Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing until 1972. He taught at the University of Montana from 1973 to 1976. He also taught at the University of Kentucky and at Northern Kentucky University. In 1976 he moved to Port Royal, Kentucky.

From the late 1950s on, McClanahan published stories, essays, and reviews in numerous magazines, including Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Playboy. He received Playboy magazine's award for nonfiction in 1972 and 1974. The Natural Man, a novel that had been in the making since 1961, was published in 1983 to the delight of both reviewers and readers who appreciated its humor and its language, which is at once raunchy and elegant. The Chicago Tribune's reviewer said that this book "is written perfectly." The Natural Man was followed, in 1985, by Famous People I Have Known, autobiographical essays.

McClanahan married Katherine Andrews in 1957; they had three children: Kristin, Caitlin, and Jess. In 1975 he married Cia White; the children of this marriage are Annie June and William White.

Selected Sources from UK Libraries:

McClanahan, Ed. A Congress of Wonders. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996. Print.

PS3563.C3397 C66 1996, Young Library – 5^th Floor

McClanahan, Ed., Carolyn. Whitesel, Wesley W. Bates, Deborah. Kessler, Rhonda. Seabolt, Leslie. Shane, Gray. Zeitz, and Larkspur Press. Fondelle, Or, The Whore with a Heart of Gold : A Report from the Field. Monterey, Ky.: Larkspur, 2002. Print.

PS3563.C3397 F6 2002 c.1, Special Collections Research Center - Rare Books

McClanahan, Ed. Spit in the Ocean 7 : All about Kesey. New York: Penguin, 2003. Print.

PS3561.E667 Z87 2003, Young Library - 5th Floor