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See also:PROCTOR, See also:ALEXANDER PHIMISTER (1862– ) , See also:American sculptor and painter, was See also:born in See also:Ontario, See also:Canada, on the 27th of See also:September 1862. As a youth he lived at See also:Denver, See also:Colorado, spending much of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
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- TIME, STANDARD
time in the Rocky Mountains, and his familiarity with the ways and habits of See also:wild animals was supplemented later by study in the Jardin See also:des Plantes, See also:Paris. He was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil at the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design and later in the See also:Art Students' See also:League, in New See also:York, and first attracted See also:attention by his statues of wild animals at the Columbian Exposition, See also:Chicago. In 1896 he won the Rinehart Scholarship, which enabled him to spend five years in Paris, where he studied under Puech and J. A. Injalbert. Among his See also:works of See also:sculpture are: " See also:Indian See also:Warrior " (a small See also:bronze); " Panthers," Prospect See also:Park, See also:Brooklyn, New York; " See also:Quadriga," for See also:United States See also:Pavilion, Paris See also:Exhibition (1900), and See also:groups-in the See also:City Park, Denver, and Zoological Park, New York. His pictures of wild animals, mainly in See also:water See also:colours, are also characteristic. He became a member of the Society of American Artists (1895), of the National Academy of Design (1904), of the American Water Color Society, and of the Architectural League, New York.
End of Article: PROCTOR, ALEXANDER PHIMISTER (1862– )
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