American Academic Painter, 1849-1903, American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Leon Bonnat and of Jean-Leon Gerome, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes. In 1895 he wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India, and two years later he published Episodes of Mountaineering. He died in November 1903. He was a member of the Legion d'honneur, France, an officer of the Order of St. Michael, Germany, and a member of the Secession, Munich.   Related Paintings of Edwin Lord Weeks :. | Old Blue-Tiled Mosque,Outside Delhi,India | Great Mogul and his Court Returning from the Great Mosque at Delhi, India | The Old Blue-Tiled Mosque Outside of Delhi, India | Curiously Wrought Red Sandstone Arches Fort Agra India | The Temple and Tank of Walkeshwar at Bombay |
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painted Self-portrait in before 1793(1793)
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Russian painter, sculptor, designer and photographer. He was a central exponent of Russian Constructivism, owing much to the pre-Revolutionary work of Malevich and Tatlin, and he was closely involved in the cultural debates and experiments that followed the Revolution of 1917. In 1921 he denounced, on ideological grounds, easel painting and fine art, and he became an exponent of Productivism (see CONSTRUCTIVISM,