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STURGIS, RUSSELL (r836-1909)

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STURGIS, See also:RUSSELL (r836-1909) , See also:American architect and See also:art critic, was See also:born in See also:Baltimore See also:county, See also:Maryland, on the 16th of See also:October 1836. He graduated from the See also:Free See also:Academy in New See also:York (now the See also:College of the See also:City of New York) in 1856, and studied See also:architecture under See also:Leopold Eidlitz and then for two years in See also:Munich. In 1862 he returned to the See also:United States. He designed the Yale University See also:chapel and the See also:Farnham and Durfee dormitories at Yale, the See also:Flower See also:Hospital, the Farmers' and See also:Mechanics' See also:Bank of See also:Albany, and many other buildings, but did comparatively little professional See also:work after 1880. He was in See also:Europe in 1880-1884; and for a See also:short See also:time after his return was secretary of the New York Municipal See also:Civil Service See also:Board. He was See also:president of the Architectural See also:League of New York in 1889-1893, was first president of the See also:Fine Arts Federation in 1895-1897, and was a member of the See also:National Society of Mural Painters, the National See also:Sculpture Society, the National Academy of See also:Design, and the New York See also:chapter of the American See also:Institute of Architects. He lectured on art at See also:Columbia University, the See also:Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the See also:Peabody Institute of Baltimore and the Art Institute of See also:Chicago; his lectures in Chicago being published under the See also:title The Interdependence of the Arts of Design (1905). He is best known as a writer on art and architecture. He edited A See also:Dictionary of Architecture and See also:Building (3 vols., 1901-1902) and the See also:English version of Wilhelm Luebke's Outlines of the See also:History of Art (2 vols., 1904), and he wrote See also:European Architecture (1896), How to See also:Judge Architecture (1903), The Appreciation of Sculpture (1904), The Appreciation of Pictures (1905), AStudy of the Artist's Way of Working in the Various Handicrafts and Arts of Design (2 vols., 1905), and an unfinished History of Architecture (1906 sqq.). During his last years he was nearly See also:blind. He died in New York on the rrth of See also:February 1909.

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