George Biddle
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 51 years ago |
Date of birth | January 24,1885 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Philadelphia |
Pennsylvania | |
United States | |
Date of died | November 6,1973 |
Died | Croton-on-Hudson |
New York | |
United States | |
Artworks | San Jose de la Mata, Santo Domingo |
Sweatshop | |
On view | Gibbes Museum of Art |
Founded | Federal Art Project |
Job | Painter |
Visual Artist | |
Current partner | Hélène Sardeau |
Parents | Algernon Sydney Biddle |
Frances Brown Biddle | |
Grandparents | George Washington Biddle |
Moncure Robinson | |
Charlotte Randolph Taylor | |
Works | Portrait of Man Ray |
Education | Harvard University |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | |
Académie Julian | |
Harvard Law School | |
Groton School | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1387414 |
George Biddle Life story
George Biddle was an American painter, muralist and lithographer, best known for his social realism and combat art. A childhood friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he played a major role in establishing the Federal Art Project, which employed artists under the Works Progress Administration.