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Samuel Crone
A turn-of-the-century, Samuel Crone was an expatriate artist born in Columbia, Tennessee, and raised in Memphis. He created hundreds of drawings and paintings of wide-ranging subjects including allegory, historical genre, intimate portraits, and landscapes. He made his living from selling his oil paintings, a major outlet being the Moderne Galerie in Munich, which also handled the work of modernist Wassil Kandinsky. His career moved away from narrative subjects to the more picturesque and spontaneous. A special exhibition of his work at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and a 1997 exhibition at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis aroused much appreciation and curiosity about his talents. Crone spent his entire adulthood in Europe, primarily Germany, where he arrived in 1877 and enrolled in the Royal Art Academy in Munich. Many of his landscapes were tonalist and romantic in style and show his wide-ranging travels including extensive sketching in Italy. He died in 1913 at the age of 55.


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