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from Auction House Records.
LANDSCAPE WITH MOUNTAINS AND LAKE
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas on October 14, 1890. Family moved to Abilene, Kansas in 1892 and he graduated from Abilene High School in 1909. He then took a job as a night foreman at the Belle Springs Creamery for two years before attending West Point. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general in the United States Army. During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. Eisenhower began painting in 1948 when serving as President of Columbia Univ. He saw it mainly as a form of relaxation, and destroyed or gave away most of his work to friends. He and Winston Churchill, who also painted for relaxation, encouraged
each other, and Eisenhower arranged for Churchill's first large exhibition of paintings. He died March 28, 1969.
Exhibitions: Gallery of Modern Art, 1967; Leavenworth Carnegie Arts Center, 1990;
Richard Nixon Library, 1990; Eisenhower Museum, 2006.
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SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Wichita Art Museum’s Library Artists’ Files.
| | 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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