Eugene Alonzo Poole
An American Artist 1841-1912
Catalogue
https://www.dropbox.com/home/Poole?preview=Catalogue2alt_12_30.pdf
Chapter 5 Studying in France 1867
Paris was the art capital of the of the 19thcentury world. As Henry James said in 1887: “It sounds like a paradox, but it is a very...
Chapter 4 Civil War Busts
Having finished his tenure at PAFA, Poole moved back to Maryland and sought out opportunities to demonstrate his growing artistic...
Preface
For years, growing up, I stared across my grandmother’s dining room table at the portrait of a little girl, dressed all in white, in a...
Chapter 3 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1863
After completing his schooling in Montgomery County, Poole set out for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia. He...
Chapter 2 Early Years 1841-1863
Eugene Alonzo Cost Poole was born to John and Anna Rebecca Cost on February 16, 1841 in what would become Poolesville, Maryland. Rebecca...
