FOREMOST ARTIST
ILL SEVERAL DAYS
A.O. Revenaugh's Paintings
Had Attracted Attention
Everywhere
PORTRAITS HIS FORTE.
Wife Reaches Bedside Before
End Came - Summoned
From the East.
After suffering for ten days with an attack of pneumonia, A.O. Revenaugh, aged sixty-eight, died at 12 o'clock noon yesterday when the disease finally succeeded in reaching his heart. Mr. Revenaugh was widely known in the city as an artist of distinction and had lived here for twenty years. Mrs. Revenaugh, his wife, was summoned from New york when it became apparent that her husband could not survive, and came here in a race against death. She arrived Thursday and remained with her husband until the end came yesterday at Mr. Revenaugh's home, 2009 First Street.
Mr. Revenaugh was a native of Zanesville, Ohio, and attended school at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he graduated from the medical department of the Ann Arbor University shortly after he came of age. He did not practice medicine long, however, for he joined the United States Signal Corps. Co. C 141st NY Infantry and served through the Civil War under Sherman, where he won the esteem of his superior officers with a most enviable record.
STUDIED PAINTING.
Soon after the close of hostilities between the North and South Mr. Revenaugh married and took up study of portrait painting. He possessed a natural talent that needed very little training, and after taking up his residence in Louisville twenty years ago he began to attract the attention of lovers of art all over the country.
It is said that he was complimented by Walter N. Escott, Sr., a well known art dealer of this city who died some years ago as "the greatest portrait painter of his time." Mr. Escott is said to have remarked "He will be recognnized as the greatest painter of his time, but only after he is dead."
It is also said that a famous authority on paintings in New York in a conversation with a local business man said that Mr. Revenaugh's work has never been equaled by an American painter.
NEVER ATTENDED SCHOOL.
The dead artist never attended school to study his craft but was a self-taught artist. His brush has turned out many paintings that have won recognition in foreign lands. While his forte was portrait painting, he often took delight in producing pictures of old violins, many of which works are highly valued today.
Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters and two sons.
Mr. A. O. Revenaugh is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Vernon, Shiawassee County, Michigan documented by the Flint Genealogical Society.
He was the father of:
Claude L. Revenaugh 1868-1933
Ione Revenaugh 1870-after 1910
Rita Revenaugh 1871-
Harold Revenaugh 1879-
ILL SEVERAL DAYS
A.O. Revenaugh's Paintings
Had Attracted Attention
Everywhere
PORTRAITS HIS FORTE.
Wife Reaches Bedside Before
End Came - Summoned
From the East.
After suffering for ten days with an attack of pneumonia, A.O. Revenaugh, aged sixty-eight, died at 12 o'clock noon yesterday when the disease finally succeeded in reaching his heart. Mr. Revenaugh was widely known in the city as an artist of distinction and had lived here for twenty years. Mrs. Revenaugh, his wife, was summoned from New york when it became apparent that her husband could not survive, and came here in a race against death. She arrived Thursday and remained with her husband until the end came yesterday at Mr. Revenaugh's home, 2009 First Street.
Mr. Revenaugh was a native of Zanesville, Ohio, and attended school at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he graduated from the medical department of the Ann Arbor University shortly after he came of age. He did not practice medicine long, however, for he joined the United States Signal Corps. Co. C 141st NY Infantry and served through the Civil War under Sherman, where he won the esteem of his superior officers with a most enviable record.
STUDIED PAINTING.
Soon after the close of hostilities between the North and South Mr. Revenaugh married and took up study of portrait painting. He possessed a natural talent that needed very little training, and after taking up his residence in Louisville twenty years ago he began to attract the attention of lovers of art all over the country.
It is said that he was complimented by Walter N. Escott, Sr., a well known art dealer of this city who died some years ago as "the greatest portrait painter of his time." Mr. Escott is said to have remarked "He will be recognnized as the greatest painter of his time, but only after he is dead."
It is also said that a famous authority on paintings in New York in a conversation with a local business man said that Mr. Revenaugh's work has never been equaled by an American painter.
NEVER ATTENDED SCHOOL.
The dead artist never attended school to study his craft but was a self-taught artist. His brush has turned out many paintings that have won recognition in foreign lands. While his forte was portrait painting, he often took delight in producing pictures of old violins, many of which works are highly valued today.
Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters and two sons.
Mr. A. O. Revenaugh is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Vernon, Shiawassee County, Michigan documented by the Flint Genealogical Society.
He was the father of:
Claude L. Revenaugh 1868-1933
Ione Revenaugh 1870-after 1910
Rita Revenaugh 1871-
Harold Revenaugh 1879-
FOREMOST ARTIST
ILL SEVERAL DAYS
A.O. Revenaugh's Paintings
Had Attracted Attention
Everywhere
PORTRAITS HIS FORTE.
Wife Reaches Bedside Before
End Came - Summoned
From the East.
After suffering for ten days with an attack of pneumonia, A.O. Revenaugh, aged sixty-eight, died at 12 o'clock noon yesterday when the disease finally succeeded in reaching his heart. Mr. Revenaugh was widely known in the city as an artist of distinction and had lived here for twenty years. Mrs. Revenaugh, his wife, was summoned from New york when it became apparent that her husband could not survive, and came here in a race against death. She arrived Thursday and remained with her husband until the end came yesterday at Mr. Revenaugh's home, 2009 First Street.
Mr. Revenaugh was a native of Zanesville, Ohio, and attended school at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he graduated from the medical department of the Ann Arbor University shortly after he came of age. He did not practice medicine long, however, for he joined the United States Signal Corps. Co. C 141st NY Infantry and served through the Civil War under Sherman, where he won the esteem of his superior officers with a most enviable record.
STUDIED PAINTING.
Soon after the close of hostilities between the North and South Mr. Revenaugh married and took up study of portrait painting. He possessed a natural talent that needed very little training, and after taking up his residence in Louisville twenty years ago he began to attract the attention of lovers of art all over the country.
It is said that he was complimented by Walter N. Escott, Sr., a well known art dealer of this city who died some years ago as "the greatest portrait painter of his time." Mr. Escott is said to have remarked "He will be recognnized as the greatest painter of his time, but only after he is dead."
It is also said that a famous authority on paintings in New York in a conversation with a local business man said that Mr. Revenaugh's work has never been equaled by an American painter.
NEVER ATTENDED SCHOOL.
The dead artist never attended school to study his craft but was a self-taught artist. His brush has turned out many paintings that have won recognition in foreign lands. While his forte was portrait painting, he often took delight in producing pictures of old violins, many of which works are highly valued today.
Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters and two sons.
Mr. A. O. Revenaugh is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Vernon, Shiawassee County, Michigan documented by the Flint Genealogical Society.
He was the father of:
Claude L. Revenaugh 1868-1933
Ione Revenaugh 1870-after 1910
Rita Revenaugh 1871-
Harold Revenaugh 1879-
ILL SEVERAL DAYS
A.O. Revenaugh's Paintings
Had Attracted Attention
Everywhere
PORTRAITS HIS FORTE.
Wife Reaches Bedside Before
End Came - Summoned
From the East.
After suffering for ten days with an attack of pneumonia, A.O. Revenaugh, aged sixty-eight, died at 12 o'clock noon yesterday when the disease finally succeeded in reaching his heart. Mr. Revenaugh was widely known in the city as an artist of distinction and had lived here for twenty years. Mrs. Revenaugh, his wife, was summoned from New york when it became apparent that her husband could not survive, and came here in a race against death. She arrived Thursday and remained with her husband until the end came yesterday at Mr. Revenaugh's home, 2009 First Street.
Mr. Revenaugh was a native of Zanesville, Ohio, and attended school at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he graduated from the medical department of the Ann Arbor University shortly after he came of age. He did not practice medicine long, however, for he joined the United States Signal Corps. Co. C 141st NY Infantry and served through the Civil War under Sherman, where he won the esteem of his superior officers with a most enviable record.
STUDIED PAINTING.
Soon after the close of hostilities between the North and South Mr. Revenaugh married and took up study of portrait painting. He possessed a natural talent that needed very little training, and after taking up his residence in Louisville twenty years ago he began to attract the attention of lovers of art all over the country.
It is said that he was complimented by Walter N. Escott, Sr., a well known art dealer of this city who died some years ago as "the greatest portrait painter of his time." Mr. Escott is said to have remarked "He will be recognnized as the greatest painter of his time, but only after he is dead."
It is also said that a famous authority on paintings in New York in a conversation with a local business man said that Mr. Revenaugh's work has never been equaled by an American painter.
NEVER ATTENDED SCHOOL.
The dead artist never attended school to study his craft but was a self-taught artist. His brush has turned out many paintings that have won recognition in foreign lands. While his forte was portrait painting, he often took delight in producing pictures of old violins, many of which works are highly valued today.
Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters and two sons.
Mr. A. O. Revenaugh is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Vernon, Shiawassee County, Michigan documented by the Flint Genealogical Society.
He was the father of:
Claude L. Revenaugh 1868-1933
Ione Revenaugh 1870-after 1910
Rita Revenaugh 1871-
Harold Revenaugh 1879-
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