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Re: Obscure artists
I doubt that William Cogswell is your guy. He was primarily a portraitist,
gaining some minor repute for his portraits of some Washington, D.C.
politicos and of the king and queen of Hawaii -- although he did live in
California in the 1850s?, and again in the later 1800s until his death
(shortly after the turn of the century, I believe) -- so he might have
gotten into some landscape painting.
In support of this assumption, the National Gallery of Art website
(http://www.nga.gov) shows no works by him. The National Portrait Gallery
website (http://www.npg.si.edu) shows 93 "research records" -- portraits by
him owned by various repositories. Neither shows a B. Cogswell.
(Should you happen across info. about William, I would appreciate your
passing it along. He was my great-great-grandmother's second husband.)
Lydia Lucas
Acting Head, Processing Department
Minnesota Historical Society
245 Kellogg Boulevard West
St. Paul, MN 55102-1906
ph (651) 297-5542
fax (651) 296-9961
e-mail: lydia.lucas@mnhs.org
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> From: Otterbein Lauren[SMTP:lotterbein@MAIL.WHITWORTH.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 1:52 PM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Obscure artists
>
(snip)
> There is a painting here of a
> glacial mountain landscape by an artist named Cogswell I believe to be
> Barry
> Cogswell of British Columbia, but I can find no information on him. I
> know
> there is also a William Cogswell, but I don't know his genre or style of
> painting.
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