Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1885, Jan. 24 | Born, Philadelphia, Pa. |
| 1898-1904 | Attended Groton School, Groton, Mass. |
| 1908 | Spent six months working as a cowhand in Texas and Mexico |
| 1908-1911 | A.B. and LL.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1912-1916 | Attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.; studied printmaking in Munich, Germany; spent summers painting in France with Frederick Frieseke |
| 1917 | Married Anne ("Nancy") Coleman (divorced) Enlisted in the United States Army; commissioned a first lieutenant |
| 1917-1919 | Served on the general staff, First Army Corps, in battles at Marne, St. Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne, France |
| 1920 | Lived in Tautira, Tahiti, with periodic trips to New York |
| 1924 | Moved to Paris, France |
| 1925 | Married Jane Belo (divorced) |
| 1927 | Settled in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. |
| 1928 | Accompanied Diego Rivera on a sketching trip through Mexico |
| 1930 | Published Green Island. New York, N.Y.: Coward-McCann |
| 1931 | Married Hélène Sardeau (died 1969); spent most of the next two years in Rome, Italy |
| 1933 | Advocated the establishment of a mural program for public buildings as part of the Federal Art Project |
| 1939 | Published An American Artist's Story. Boston: Little, Brown |
| 1942-1945 | Chairman, War Department Art Advisory Committee |
| 1942 | Created murals and sculpture with Hélène Sardeau for the Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 1944 | Sketched and wrote George Biddle's War Drawings. New York: Hyperion Press Published Artist At War. New York: Viking Press |
| 1944-1945 | Designed and executed a mural with Hélène Sardeau for the supreme court building, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1945 | Reporter and artist, Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany |
| 1950-1954 | Served on the United States Commission of Fine Arts |
| 1957 | Published The Yes and No of Contemporary Art. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press |
| 1968 | Published Tahitian Journal. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press |
| 1973, Nov. 6 | Died, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. |