Luther Emerson Van Gorder ((1861-1931)
Luther VaGorder was born in Warren, Ohio and was a well known painter of the Toledo, Ohio area. He worked for a Toledo newspaper before going to New York to study art. He went to Paris to study and stayed through the late 1890′s where he painted his well known Parisian market and street scenes.
Van Gorder was a highly respected painter in his day and his works were exhibited widely. Beginning in 1888, his paintings and watercolors were accepted regularly at the annual exhibitions of the Art Institute of Chicago, the PAFA, the National Academy of Design, and at World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, among others.
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