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The girl in the mural

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American artist Maxfield Parrish created a number of works between 1905 and 1934 that featured a young model called Sue Lewin, who posed for all but two characters in a mural that Parrish created for display in the Curtis Publishing Company building in Philadelphia. Lewin is now Parrish's housekeeper.

Author: Stinnett, Caskie
Publisher: Yankee Publishing, Inc.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 2000
Methods, Mural painting and decoration, Mural painting, Parrish, Maxfield, Lewin, Sue

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Faith in paint

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Reverend Wagner is a highly regarded artist who works miracles with oils in his home which is also a museum of his works. He uses a wide range of subjects including self-portraits of his early life, religious works, and street life. He also works with found objects.

Author: Cohn, Nik, Mark, Mary Ellen
Publisher: Time, Inc.
Publication Name: Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0024-3019
Year: 1998
Illustration, Wagner, Albert, Reverend

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Peck's bad girl

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It was in 1897 when Annie Smith Peck reached the summit of Mount Orizaba in Mexico, the highest peak ever reached by a woman in North and South America. She attained many more mountaineering accomplishments in her life and helped to promote the cause of feminism.

Author: Robinson, Charles Turek
Publisher: Yankee Publishing, Inc.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1997
Biography, Women mountaineers, Peck, Annie Smith

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