Arthur W. Dow

Arthur Wesley Dow (1857 – December 13, 1922)[1][2] was an American painter, printmaker, photographer and an arts educator. Arthur Wesley Dow, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1857.[3] Dow received his first art training in 1880 from Anna K. Freland of Worcester, Massachusetts. The following year, Dow continued his studies in Boston[1] with James M. Stone, a former student of Frank Duveneck and Gustave Bouguereau. In 1884, he went to Paris for his early art education, studying at the Académie Julian,[3] under the supervision of the academic artists Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.