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spending seven years in Europe. He made a specialty of genre pictures, 
but also did much noteworthy decorative and illustrative work. He was 
one of the founders, in 1875, and the first president of the Society of Ameri- 
can Artists; was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 
1885, and also belonged to the American Water Color Society and the 
National Society of Mural Painters, as well as to other associations and 
clubs. He received the following awards: Medal, Munich Royal Academy; 
medal, Centennial Exh., Philadelphia, 1876; hon. mention, Paris Exp., 
1889; Lotos Club Fund Purchase, Nat. Acad. Design, 1895; silver medal, 
Pan-American Exp., Buffalo, 1901, and St. Louis Exp., 1904. 
ROSES. 
Signed. On canvas, 24^ H., 19 W. 
AMONG THE OLD POETS. 
Signed. On canvas, 16 H., 20 % W. 
WATER LILIES. 
Signed. On canvas, 20 % H., 30^ W. 
Shurtleff, Roswell Morse. 
Born, Rindge, N. H., June 14, 1838; died, Jan. 6, 1915. Studied at the 
Lowell Institute, Boston, and the National Academy of Design, New York. 
He received a bronze medal at the Pan-Amer. Exp., Buffalo, 1901, and the 
St. Louis Exp., 1904; and the Evans prize, Amer. Water Color Soc., 1910. 
N. A., 1890; member, Amer. Water Color Soc. Specialized in landscapes. 
THE MYSTERIOUS WOODS. 
Signed. On canvas, 30 H., 40 W. 
Smedley, William Thomas. 
Born, Chester County, Pa., Mar. 26, 1858. Pupil of Pa. Acad. Fine Arts 
and of Jean Paul Laurens in Paris. Evans prize, Amer. Water Color Soc., 
1890; bronze medal, Paris Exp., 1900; bronze medal for painting and silver 
medal for drawing, Pan-Amer. Exp., Buffalo, 1901; Proctor prize, Nat. 
Acad. Design, 1906; Carnegie prize, N. A. D., 1907. N. A., 1905; member, 
Amer. Water Color Soc.; Mural Painters; Nat. Inst. Arts and Letters. 
Painter of figures in oil, and illustrator. Studio, New York. 
ONE DAY IN JUNE. 
Signed. On canvas, 23^ H., 15K W. 
Thayer, Abbott Handerson. 
(Biographical sketch on page hi.) 
DUBLIN POND, NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
On canvas, 20X H., 16 W. 
