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Jessie Arms Botke was born in Chicago, Illinois to William Aldis and Martha (Cornell) Arms, [2] and attended the Chicago Art Institute in 1897-98 and again from 1902 to 1905. She took summer classes from artists John Christen Johansen and Charles Herbert Woodbury and continued working with the renowned Albert Herter , who had the most influence ...
Cornelis Botke (1887-1954) was a Dutch-born American painter and etcher. [1] [2] He emigrated to the United States in 1930, [1] and he first lived in Chicago before moving to Southern California. [2] By the time of his death, his artwork hung in the New York Public Library, the Los Angeles Public Library, and the California State Library. [1]
A rare white peacock has been killed, and a town is mourning the loss. According to KSBW 8, members of the Boulder Creek community in California believe the peacock, affectionately known as Albert ...
Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...
A wild peacock is ruffling feathers in a Northern California neighborhood. Residents on Occidental St. in North Oakland are split over whether they love the colorful creature or hate it ...
The first New Year's Eve ball drop took place in 1907, according to the official Times Square website. Built by Jacob Starr, a young immigrant metalworker, the inaugural sphere was made of iron ...
Jean Mannheim was born November 18, 1863, in Bad Kreuznach in the Kingdom of Prussia. [2] He was drafted into the German Army, and eventually he fled to France.In Paris, he studied art at Académie Delécluse and Académie Colarossi, and under artists Paul-Louis Delance and William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
In 2004 Christian Cranmer completed his 35-year-long attempt to convince the Nepal government to sell him over 50,000 antique firearms. These weapons were part of the arsenal of the Royal Nepalese Gurkha Army, and had been sealed away in the Lagan Silekhana Palace since 1839.