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Birth
1856 (New York City)
Death
1934 (Princeton, New Jersey)
Lived/Active
New Jersey/California
Often Known For
seascape, portrait, solar eclipse and landscape painting
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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The first president and founder of the American Fine Arts Society,
Howard Russell Butler was elected to the National Academy of Design in
1902. He was especially known for his paintings of landscapes and
solar eclipses.
Butler was born in New York City and studied at
Princeton and Columbia Universities. In 1877, when he graduated from
Princeton, Butler received from his father the graduation gift of a
train trip West to California. He and three classmates went on
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