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|  "Frank Russell Green, one of the youngest and most prominent artists in Chicago, was born in this city on April 16, 1856. He is the son of Russell and Caroline Green, his father coming to Chicago in 1836 and engaging in the lumber business. Mr. Green showed early an artistic propensity, his pencil coming as naturally to his hand as a top or knife to the fingers of an average boy.
In 1873 he commenced to use his brush, going to the Rocky Mountains, with Henry A. Elkins, during the same year. There he imbibed the beauties and grandeurs of the superb landscapes of that region, and transferred his vivid impressions to canvas in several works of merit. In 1880 he went abroad and, after studying in Paris a short time, returned to Chicago.
He then spent about a year and a half in Boston and New York City, occupying himself principally in illustrating for Harper Brothers, John A. Lowell & Co., and other prominent publishing houses.
In the fall of 1883, he returned to Europe, prosecuting his artistic labors in Paris for about fourteen months. Among his works which attracted the most attention here may be mentioned: Francesca de Remini, The Death of Juliet, and the Palace of Indolence. The Toilers of the Sea, exhibited in London, is also one of his strongest pieces.
Since returning to Chicago, he has devoted himself almost exclusively to figure-painting, in which specialty he takes high rank, his pictures meeting with a ready sale in many of the art centers of the East.
Mr. Green was married on May 23,1877, to Miss Hattie J. Collins, of Campton, Kane Co., Ill."
Submitted by Gene Meier whose source is History of Chicago, by A.T. Andreas, Volume III, p.420
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