Author: Whitney Museum Of American Art

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-09

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9781396042751

Excerpt from Second Annual Exhibition, Paintings and Prints by Philadelphia Artists, Including a Group of Paintings by Adolphe Borie, 1877-1934: October 23rd to November 22nd, 1934 Adolphe Borie was born in Philadelphia, January 5, 1877, and died in Philadelphia on May 14, 1934. He studied painting for two years at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in Munich for three years. In 1902 he returned to Philadelphia where he remained for five years devoting his time to portrait painting. In 1908 after a year spent in Paris he again returned to Philadelphia where he lived and worked for the remainder of his life, except for four years spent in New York, from 1915 to 1919, and a second visit to Paris in 1921 where he stayed for three years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.