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Columbus Art School bounded academia folio containing pasted in inserts from a student named Richard Spencer Biddle studying different art forms internationally and locally. With an emphasis on Ohio Native American mound builders and their symbols.
9 x 11 inches with multiple unnumbered pages & insertions from January of 1930. Instructor Karl S. Bolander. Mr. Bolander has graded the folio on the opening pages as being excellent in January of 1930.
Karl S. Bolander (1893-1976)
Karl S. Bolander was active/lived in New York, Chicago, Columbus OH, and Fort Wayne IN. He is known for landscape painting, arts administration, art education, and camouflage. He was born in Marion OH on April 3, 1893. He studied art at Pratt Institute, University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Ohio State University, with additional training at other schools.
During World War I, he was a civilian camouflage artist, designing dazzle camouflage for American merchant ships for the US Shipping Board.
Early in his career, Bolander taught art in the public schools in Columbus Ohio. He was director of the Columbus Art Museum among many other titles and accomplishments. Complete biography available online.
Richard Spencer Briddle Born in Columbus (Franklin County), OH on 26 APR 1911 to Frank Custer Biddle and Grace May Thornton. Richard Spencer BIDDLE married Ada Kathleen Hardies. He passed away on
29 Apr 2002 in Leesburg, Lake, FL.
*Mr. Spencer is whom I bought the book from.
LEESBURG (Florida) -- Richard Spencer Biddle fought for his country during World War II in the Navy and stayed interested in the military for the rest of his life.
"He loved the Navy," said his wife, Clara Biddle of Leesburg. "He was interested in all things pertaining to the military service."
That included reading about and teaching military history "to anyone who would listen," Clara Biddle said.
Biddle, 91, died Monday in Leesburg.
A retired commercial artist, he used his artistic talent to draw military uniforms -- from those used in Revolutionary War through the Civil War.
He also painted watercolor pictures and crafted leather goods, including a gun belt and holster.
Born in Columbus, Ohio, on April 26, 1911, Biddle graduated from Ohio State University in Columbus in the 1930s with a master's degree in fine arts.
After filling in for a teacher in Cumberland, Md., for one year, he taught commercial art at an extension of The College of William and Mary in Richmond, Va.
Biddle joined the Navy in 1943 and was stationed on the USS Minneapolis in the Pacific.
"He taught soldiers on the ships how to recognize enemy planes," Clara Biddle said.
Her husband spent 22 years in the service, including time in the Navy Reserve.
After his active service, he worked for the government in Washington, D.C., where he met Clara Biddle.
"I worked in the Navy Yard as a secretary," she said.
In the 1960s, Richard Biddle was a member of the National Sojourners, the Masons and the Sons of the American Revolution. He started a chapter of the SAR in Bethesda, Md.
The Biddles retired from the Department of the Navy in 1971 and moved to Sanibel Island one year later.
They moved to Mount Dora in 1979 and then to Leesburg in 1995.
In addition to his wife survivors are sons, Richard K. Biddle of Silver Spring, Md., and Frank Carl Biddle of Rockville, Md., and one granddaughter.
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9 x 11 inches with multiple unnumbered pages & insertions from January of 1930. Instructor Karl S. Bolander. Mr. Bolander has graded the folio on the opening pages as being excellent in January of 1930.
Karl S. Bolander (1893-1976)
Karl S. Bolander was active/lived in New York, Chicago, Columbus OH, and Fort Wayne IN. He is known for landscape painting, arts administration, art education, and camouflage. He was born in Marion OH on April 3, 1893. He studied art at Pratt Institute, University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Ohio State University, with additional training at other schools.
During World War I, he was a civilian camouflage artist, designing dazzle camouflage for American merchant ships for the US Shipping Board.
Early in his career, Bolander taught art in the public schools in Columbus Ohio. He was director of the Columbus Art Museum among many other titles and accomplishments. Complete biography available online.
Richard Spencer Briddle Born in Columbus (Franklin County), OH on 26 APR 1911 to Frank Custer Biddle and Grace May Thornton. Richard Spencer BIDDLE married Ada Kathleen Hardies. He passed away on
29 Apr 2002 in Leesburg, Lake, FL.
*Mr. Spencer is whom I bought the book from.
LEESBURG (Florida) -- Richard Spencer Biddle fought for his country during World War II in the Navy and stayed interested in the military for the rest of his life.
"He loved the Navy," said his wife, Clara Biddle of Leesburg. "He was interested in all things pertaining to the military service."
That included reading about and teaching military history "to anyone who would listen," Clara Biddle said.
Biddle, 91, died Monday in Leesburg.
A retired commercial artist, he used his artistic talent to draw military uniforms -- from those used in Revolutionary War through the Civil War.
He also painted watercolor pictures and crafted leather goods, including a gun belt and holster.
Born in Columbus, Ohio, on April 26, 1911, Biddle graduated from Ohio State University in Columbus in the 1930s with a master's degree in fine arts.
After filling in for a teacher in Cumberland, Md., for one year, he taught commercial art at an extension of The College of William and Mary in Richmond, Va.
Biddle joined the Navy in 1943 and was stationed on the USS Minneapolis in the Pacific.
"He taught soldiers on the ships how to recognize enemy planes," Clara Biddle said.
Her husband spent 22 years in the service, including time in the Navy Reserve.
After his active service, he worked for the government in Washington, D.C., where he met Clara Biddle.
"I worked in the Navy Yard as a secretary," she said.
In the 1960s, Richard Biddle was a member of the National Sojourners, the Masons and the Sons of the American Revolution. He started a chapter of the SAR in Bethesda, Md.
The Biddles retired from the Department of the Navy in 1971 and moved to Sanibel Island one year later.
They moved to Mount Dora in 1979 and then to Leesburg in 1995.
In addition to his wife survivors are sons, Richard K. Biddle of Silver Spring, Md., and Frank Carl Biddle of Rockville, Md., and one granddaughter.
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