J. Laurie Wallace
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Ireland
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American painter.
Wallace was born in Garvagh
Garvagh
Garvagh is a village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is on the banks of the Agivey River, south of Coleraine on the A29 route. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 1,288.-History:...
, Ireland
Ireland
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. His family immigrated to the United States
United States
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when he was age 4.
He studied under Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator...
at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He posed for several of Eakins's paintings, including The Crucifixion (1880), Arcadia (1883) and The Swimming Hole
The Swimming Hole
The Swimming Hole is an 1884–85 painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins , Goodrich catalog #190, in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Executed in oil on canvas, it depicts six men swimming naked in a lake, and is considered a masterpiece of American painting...
(1884-85), and for dozens of photographs. In 1881 he became Eakins's assistant.
In 1891, he moved to Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska
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, Nebraska
Nebraska
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to take the position of Director of the Western Art Association. He remained there until 1927, then moved to California
California
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.
He died in Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska
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, Nebraska
Nebraska
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in 1953, at the age of 89, and is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Omaha.