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
...Malcolm, 110 n2 My Friend Henry Miller . See Afred Perles My...Nation , xii, 15 "Neglected Henry Miller", The , xii Newberry...Gregor, 213 Playboy , 15 Poor, Anne, 148 , 203 , 251 Poor, Henry Varnum, 203 Porter, Bern, 53...
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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
...Collected Poems Poems of Nature , 94 Polls, Joe, 74 - 75 Poor, Henry Varnum, 204 Portraits of Thoreau, 204 , 213 Portuguese literature...Ruzicka, Rudolph, 204 Salomon, Louis B., 168 Salt, Henry S., 19 - 20 , 29 , 38 , 94 , 164 , 199 - 200 Sanborn...
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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
...465 Poetics (Aristotle), xiv Pointon, Marcia, 46 Poor, Henry Varnum, 27 Pornographic Nude (French photo), 283 Porter...Proftssional Criminals of America (Byrnes), 338 proftssor Henry A. Rowland (Eakins), 356?57, 357? 391 perspective...
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A Treasury of American Book Illustration
Book by Henry C. Pitz; American Studio Books; Watson-Guptill Publications, 1947
Subjects: Illustration Of Books--United States
...Mariette Lydis have been introduced to the American audience. Native painters like Grant Wood, Fletcher Martin and Henry Varnum Poor have been given opportunities to make pictures for books. All these books have found a ready audience--that audience...
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Index to Reproductions of American Paintings: A Guide to Pictures Occurring in More Than Eight Hundred Books
Book by Isabel Stevenson Monro, Kate M. Monro; H. W. Wilson, 1948
Subjects: Painters--United States, Painting, American
...18 annual ex, 1923 Poor, Anne Poor, H. V...The writer POOR, Henry Varnum, 1888- About 1934...game Boswell. Varnum Poor col MMA. 20 century...Bessie Breuer Boswell. Varnum Poor Gray day MM Boswell. Varnum Poor Head of Lynn Boswell...
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Or for Poorer? How Same-Sex Marriage Threatens Religious Liberty
Journal article by Roger Severino; Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 30, 2007
Subjects: Church and state--Laws, regulations and rules, Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, Freedom of religion--Laws, regulations and rules, Same-sex marriage--Laws, regulations and rules
Or for Poorer? How Same-Sex Marriage Threatens...Accounting Office, to Hon. Henry J. Hyde, Chairman, H. Comm...other Place whatsoever"). Henry VIIIs infamous dispute with...marriage."). (44.) See Varnum v. Brien, No. CV5965 (Iowa...
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Political News and Female Readership in Antebellum Boston and Its Region
Journal article by Ronald J. Zboray, Mary Saracino Zboray; Journalism History, Vol. 22, 1996
Subjects: Boston Massachusetts, History, Newspapers, Politics, Women
...her early married life with Henry Varnum Poor, a Maine lawyer. Other women...1840, p. 1; Mary Pierce to Henry Varnum Poor, 17 April 1841, pp. 2-3...victory is sure." Mary Pierce to Henry Varnum Poor, 27 December 1840, p. 4...
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Addendum: U.s. and Canadian Dissertations, 2006
Journal article; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 89, 2007
...Designer" (Bard Graduate Center, P. Kirkham, M. Majer) HANNAH, CAROLINE, "Between Art, Craft, and Design: Henry Varnum Poor and the Making of the Modern American Artist" (Bard Graduate Center, P. Kirkham) LANIER, JESSICA, "The Grand...
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Berkshire Hathaway versus the S&p 500: 1990-2009
Journal article by John C. Alexander; Financial Services Review, Vol. 19, 2010
Subjects: Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Financial planners, Portfolio management, Rates of return, Standard & Poors Corp, Studies, United States
...Company can trace its heritage to the publication of The History of Railroads and Canals in the United States by Henry Varnum Poor in 1860. This was the first attempt at providing a comprehensive account of the financial and operational details...
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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
...acquisition could do, it was pretty poor; nothing in the Preamble suggested...provision. Representatives Varnum and Smilie replied that the...The terms of the treaty, said Varnum, made clear that the Constitution...in 1807. On January 12, one Henry Clay of Kentucky, who had presented...
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magazine articles on: Poor Henry Varnum  - 2 results

 
 
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Pearls in the Sagebrush
Magazine article by Todd Wilkinson; Southwest Art, Vol. 35, October 2005
Subjects: Art galleries & museums, Corporate profiles, Haggin Museum-Stockton CA, Springville Museum of Art-Utah, West Valley Art Museum-Surprise Az, Woolarac Ranch Museum & Wildlife Preserve-Bartlesville OK
...Dunton, Bert Phillips, and Joseph Henry Sharp); and pieces by Charles...muralist, and ceramic artist Henry Varnum Poor 1888-197O. But West Valleys hallmark...works by Maynard Dixon, Joseph Henry Sharp, Edgar Payne, and Nicolai...
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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
...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 A...


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