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Paul B. Moses
Paul Bell Moses (December 9, 1929 – March 24, 1966) was an American art historian, critic, and educator, specializing in 19th-century French art. One of the first African Americans to graduate from Haverford College in 1951, Moses taught at the University of Chicago from 1962 until his death. Early life and education Moses was born on December 9, 1929, in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, to Paul S. Moses, a house painter, and Annie Moses, a laundry worker. He graduated from Lower Merion High School in 1947. He enrolled at Haverford College as one of its first African American students in 1948. He endured racism at Haverford, living at home as a freshman because white students refused to room with him. He developed a passion for art and art history and became a protégé of art collector and philanthropist Albert C. Barnes, founder of the Barnes Foundation, which awarded Moses a scholarship that enabled him to study abroad at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre during his junior yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Merion High School
Lower Merion High School is a public high school in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, in the Main Line suburbs of Philadelphia. It is one of two high schools in the Lower Merion School District; the other one is Harriton High School. Lower Merion serves both Lower Merion Township and the Borough of Narberth. In 2020, Niche.com ranked Lower Merion High School ranked sixth among college preparatory public high schools in Pennsylvania and '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked Harriton High School and Lower Merion High School 13th and 14th in the state respectively. The school mascot is a bulldog, and its athletics teams are known as the "Aces”, honoring the U.S. Air Force Flying Aces established by Lower Merion alumnus Henry H. Arnold, an American general in both the U.S. Army and Air Force. History 19th century In 1894, with the consolidation of the area's three village high schools (Merion Square, Bryn Mawr, and Ardmore), Lower Merion began its first year in a stone building sha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakwood Friends School
Oakwood Friends School is a Private school, private, independent, co-educational Boarding school, boarding and day school located at 22 Spackenkill Road in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. With roots going back to Nine Partners Boarding School, founded in 1796, it is the oldest co-educational boarding and day school in New York (state), New York state. It is accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools. Nine Partners School In 1794, the New York Yearly Meeting appointed a committee of twenty-five to establish a school; their first meeting was on January 13, 1795. On May 1 of that year the New York Yearly Meeting purchased a house and ten acres from Joseph Mabbet, a Quaker from Connecticut, for 1600 New York pound, pounds, a down payment of 214 pounds was made from the donors, Tripp Mosher, Isaac Thorn, William Thorn, Joseph Talcott, Shadrach Richetson and Jonathan Deuel. With plans of opening a school for the children of nearby Quaker families, it op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honoré Daumier
Honoré-Victorin Daumier (; February 26, 1808 – February 10 or 11, 1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the July Revolution, Revolution of 1830 to the Second French Empire#Downfall, fall of the Second French Empire in 1870. He earned a living producing caricatures and cartoons in newspapers and periodicals such as ''La Caricature (1830–1843), La Caricature'' and ''Le Charivari'', for which he became well known in his lifetime and is still remembered today. He was a republican democrat (working class liberal), who satirized and lampooned the monarchy, aristocracy, clergy, politicians, the judiciary, lawyers, police, detectives, the wealthy, the military, the bourgeoisie, as well as his countrymen and human nature in general. Daumier was a serious painter, loosely associated with Realism (art movement), realism, sometimes blurring the boundaries between caricature and fine art. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
