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Birth
1870 (South Granville, New York)
Death
1938 (Jackson Heights, New York)
Lived/Active
New York/New Jersey
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color illustration, genre, figure, landscape and coastal scene painting
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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WALTER GRANVILLE-SMITH
Born in South Granville, New York on 28 January 1870, Walter Granville-Smith, reportedly produced the first color illustration in America, which appeared in Godey’s Lady Magazine, in conjunction with a story entitled “The Christmas Witch,” by Gertrude Atherton. Others of his illustrations appeared in such publications as Harper’s, Scribner’s, Truth and Collier’s. The most popular of these subjects was women depicted in either interio (showing 500 of 4639 characters). |
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