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RARE \"Muralist\" Douglas Volk Hand Signed Check Dated 1922:
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Up for sale \"Muralist\" Douglas Volk Hand Signed Check Dated 1922.
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Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk(February 23, 1856 – February 7, 1935)was an American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at theCooper Union, theArt Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of theMinneapolis School of Fine Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western Maine. He was born inPittsfield, Massachusetts,to Emily Clarissa King (Barlow) Volk and the sculptorLeonard Wells Volk. He was named for his mother\'s maternal cousin,Stephen A. Douglas, theDemocratic Partypresidential nominee in 1860, who lost toRepublicanpresidential nomineeAbraham Lincoln. Congressman Lincoln posed for a bust by Leonard Volk in early 1860, and the sculptor made plaster casts of his face and hands. Four-year-old Douglas entertained the future president.Volk spent his childhood in Chicago, but his family moved to Europe when he was fourteen. He began studying art in Rome, and attended theÉcole des Beaux-ArtsinParis(1873 to 1879), where he was a pupil ofJean-Léon Gérôme. At age nineteen, he exhibited at theParis Salonof 1875.He returned to the United States, and was hired as an instructor at theCooper Unionin New York City, where he taught from 1879 to 1884 and from 1906 to 1912.He helped to found theMinneapolis School of Fine Artsin 1886, and served as its director until 1893. He taught at theArt Students League of New York(1893 to 1898), theNational Academy of Design(1910 to 1917), and intermittently at theSociety for Ethical Culture.He was also a working artist, noted for his figure and portrait paintings. He exhibited three works at the 1893World\'s Columbian Expositionin Chicago, where the group won a medal, his first major award. One of the three, a \"story picture\" titledThe Puritan Maiden, featured a young woman huddled against a tree in a bleak winter landscape. The footprints in the snow of her (unseen) lover lead away into the distance – \"The snows must melt, the trees bud and roses bloom, ere he will come again.\" It had been painted twelve years earlier, but became enormously popular at the Exposition and later through engraved copies. Family members posed as models for a number of his most famous paintings.Puritan Mother and Child(1897), featured his wife in historical costume embracing their youngest son, and was part of the group that won a gold medal at the 1915Panama-Pacific Expositionin San Francisco. It is now in the collection of theCarnegie Museum of Artin Pittsburgh.The Young Pioneer(1899), a full-length portrait of his son Gerome in rustic costume holding a canoe paddle, won first prize at the 1899 Colonial Exhibition in Boston. It was bought for theMetropolitan Museum of Artin 1906,but later deaccessioned.The Boy with the Arrow(1903), which featured his son seated on a rock with Kezar Lake in the distance, won the 1903 Carnegie Prize from the Society of American Artists, a silver medal at the 1904Louisiana Purchase Expositionin St. Louis, and the 1907 gold medal at the Carolina Art Association. It is now in the collection of theSmithsonian American Art Museum.