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Sydney Laurence |
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LAURENCE, Sydney Mortimer: Born in 1865 in Brooklyn, New York. Died in 1940 in Anchorage, Alaska. Studied under Edward Moran and the Art Student League of New York. Lived in Cornwall, England artist colony at St. Ives from 1889 til 1898. Exhibited: Royal Salon of British Artists and Paris Salon, 1890,1894(honorable mention), 1895. Laurence came to Alaska in search of gold in 1904, became broke, and resumed painting which kept him busy the rest of his life . He is Alaska’s most famous painter, with a whole gallery dedicated to him at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
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