POOR, HENRY VARNUM

1888–1970, American painter, b. Chapman, Kans. Poor's lyrical still lifes, portraits, and landscapes are simply painted in many media. He painted murals in fresco for the Dept. of Justice and Dept. of Interior buildings, Washington D.C., and for Pennsylvania State College (now Pennsylvania State Univ.). Poor taught art at Columbia and in Maine. His work is represented in many American museums, including the Whitney Museum and the Metropolitan Museum, in New York City. He was also famed for his work in ceramics. Poor wrote Artist Sees Alaska (1945) and A Book of Pottery (1958).

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Henry Miller: Years of Trial & Triumph, 1962-1964: the Correspondence of Henry Miller and Elmer Gertz
Book by Elmer Gertz, Felice Flanery Lewis, Henry Miller; Southern Illinois University Press, 1978
Subjects: Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence, Censorship--United States, Gertz, Elmer--1906-, Lawyers--United States--Correspondence, Miller, Henry--1891---Correspondence, Miller, Henry--1891---Tropic of Cancer
...difficulty with much of my Henry Miller library is that I have...presented to the Court, and the poor defense put up by the opposition...AIR MAIL February 16,1962Dear Henry Miller: I forgot to answer one...has to sweat it out. Best! Henry Miller 3 Draft of preface to...
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A Thoreau Handbook
Book by Walter Harding; New York University Press, 1959
Subjects: Thoreau, Henry David--1817-1862--Bibliography, Thoreau, Henry David--1817-1862--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
...the Democratic Review for October, 1843, was an attempt at the familiar essay in the style of Lamb and Hazlitt. It is poor Thoreau. It discusses the virtues of innkeepers, and obviously Thoreaus heart is not in the matter. He would rather be outdoors...
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Phil Sheridan and His Army
Book by Paul Andrew Hutton; University of Nebraska Press, 1985
Subjects: Generals--United States--Biography, Indians Of North America--Wars--1866-1895, Sheridan, Philip Henry--1831-1888, United States--Army--Biography, West (U.S.)--History
...Third Infantry, a nephew of Henry Ward Beecher, and one of the...property as will make them very poor." 23 To oversee military operations...from Captain (Brevet Colonel) Henry C. Bankhead, commander at Fort...Miami Confederacy. William Henry Harrison, however, effectively...
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Ethan Frome
Book by Edith Wharton, Elaine Showalter; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Farm Life--New England--Fiction, Fiction, Married People--New England--Fiction, New England--Social Life And Customs--Fiction, Rural Poor--New England--Fiction
...happened right below lawyer Varnums, down at the bend of the Corbury...had been told that Frome was poor, and that the saw- mill and...hollow-backed bay between the Varnum spruces, and Ethan Frome, throwing...new brick store and Lawyer Varnums house with the two black Norway...
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Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist
Book by Henry Adams; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Artists--United States--Biography, Eakins, Thomas--1844-1916
...Baskin, Moses Soyer, Jack Levine, Henry Varnum Poor, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh (who...so. From all accounts Susan was a poor housekeeper, and indeed, this was...Murray wrote to the art critic Henry McBride.76 Murray also reported that...
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journal articles on: Poor Henry Varnum  - 9 results

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Judicial Review before Marbury
Journal article by William Michael Treanor; Stanford Law Review, Vol. 58, 2005
Subjects: Judicial review--Laws, regulations and rules, Marbury v. Madison--5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803)
...brought suit to collect the penalty. James Varnum, Weedens attorney, advanced several claims...Drawing on Bacon, Coke, and Blackstone, Varnum made a traditional argument that the statute...br/ Varnum dismissed the argument that the state...
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The Constitution in Congress: Jefferson and the West, 1801-1809
Journal article by David P. Currie; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 39, 1998
Subjects: Constitutional history--Analysis, Jefferson, Thomas--Management
...were renewed in 1807. On January 12, one Henry Clay of Kentucky, who had presented his...bombarded with petitions from Governor William Henry Harrison asking that it suspend the Ordinances...sections 7, 2 Stat. 175. (40.) See 1 HENRY ADAMS, HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF...
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The Ex Post Facto Clause and the Jurisprudence of Punishment
Journal article by Wayne A. Logan; American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 35, 1998
Subjects: Child sexual abusers--Litigation, Constitutional law--Criminal provisions, Ex post facto laws--Litigation, Kansas Sexually Violent Predator Act, Kansas v. Hendricks--117 S. Ct. 2072 (1997)
...violent predators in a prison setting is poor...." KAN. STAT. ANN. sections 59-29a01...mid-February 1998, convicted sex offender Thomas Varnum committed suicide days after Maine authorities...POST, Feb. 17, 1998, at A2 (noting that Varnum left taped message that he could not "live...
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The Corporate Origins of Judicial Review
Journal article by Mary Sarah Bilder; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 116, 2006
Subjects: Judicial review--History
...and relief for the poor. (78) Since the early...authority. A petition to Henry VI had complained...approved. (92) Under Henry VII, Crown control...Hospitals for the Poor Act (1597) abandoned...Hospitals for the Poor Act, 1597, 39 Eliz...112.) Patent of Henry VII to the Merchant...
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The Unjustified Absence of Federal Fraud Protection in the Labor Market
Journal article by Kent Greenfield; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 107, 1997
Subjects: Fraud--Laws, regulations, etc., Labor market--Laws, regulations, etc., White v. National Steel Corp.--938 F.2d 474 (4th Cir. 1991)
...will be able to offer a lower wage rate than the company with poor job security because the latter company will have to pay a higher...product. The market will then come to be dominated by makers of poor widgets.(157) One would expect that this effect would also...
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Magical American Fresco
Magazine article by Susan Tenaglia; World and I, Vol. 16, February 2001
Subjects: Mural painting and decoration--History, Mural painting--History
...and Sculpture, where fresco became an essential part of the curriculum. "Many of the artists like Willard Cummings, Henry Varnum Poor, and Sidney Simon, who founded the school, were war veterans who embraced leftist philosophies," explains Bozhkov...


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Poor, Henry Varnum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
POOR, HENRY VARNUM 1888 1970, American painter, b. Chapman...College (now Pennsylvania State Univ.). Poor taught art at Columbia and in Maine. His...was also famed for his work in ceramics. Poor wrote Artist Sees Alaska (1945) and...


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