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| | Herbert Chesley Chivers (1869 - 1946) was a sculptor, etcher and painter. He specialized in landscapes, flower studies. Architect. Studied at Hopkins Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; Art Students League, New York; St. Louis School of Fine Arts; Wentworth Institute of Art, Boston. Pupil of George Luks; John Sloan; Theodore Robinson; Mahonri Young; Voitech Preissig and Joseph Pennell. Lived in Tecumseh in 1932. | Source:
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Newlin, Gertrude Dix (Development of Art in Kansas. Typed Manuscript, 1951); American Art Annual. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1898-1947 26; Midwestern Artists’ Exhibition (Kansas City: Kansas City Art Institute, 1920-1942 Mines, Cynthia. For the Sake of Art: The Story of an Art Movement in Kansas. s.l. Mines, 1979.) 1922; Family Search. Version 2.5.0. Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 2002. www.FamilySearch.org accessed July 14, 2006. | | This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas. |
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| Herbert Chesley Chivers was born in Windsor, England in 1869. Chivers was a pupil of Luks, Sloan, Robinson, Lever, Young, Preissig, and Pennell. He was a resident of San Francisco in 1916-18 and of NYC in 1929.
Exh: SFAA, 1916-18; NAD, 1922. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Fld; AAA 1929; SF Chronicle, 1-1-1922, 31/5.
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