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Birth
1859 (Harper's Ferry, Virginia)
Death
1932 (New York City)
Lived/Active
New York/North Carolina
Image copyrigtht by J.K. McKinley, 1922
Often Known For
poetic landscape and visionary-religious mural painting
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Painters of Grand Canyon
Tonalism
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Born in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, Eliott Daingerfield was a talented
watercolorist who earned a strong reputation while very young but was
most known for his depictions of the Grand Canyon which he first
visited in 1911.
He painted his colorful, mystical landscapes
from memory, and his oil painting, "The Genius of the Canyon" brought
$15,000. in 1920. Likely this was the highest price paid to date
for a work by a living painter. Completed in 1913, it resulted
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