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Louis Orr

Louis Orr (1879 - 1966) was active/lived in Connecticut / France.  Louis Orr is known for Printmaking, architecture, marine.

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Following is an article from an anonymous source who has an etching by Louis Orr, likely Notre Dame Cathedral, that was in the family from N. Ross Parke, a well known artist in the Hartford, Connecticut area: Submitted 6/2002.

Article in "The Hartford Times" Sat, March 5, 1966; page 7.(Hartford CT)
Titled: Friends Honor Memory of Orr, Recall Etcher's Hartford Youth
Author: Florence Berkman).

"Don't spoil a good printer and make a poor printer. This was the advice given by a father (an art collector) to his daughter who had asked him to give a young artist she had just discovered a grant for study. 'But he has extraordinary talent.' She told her father. The young man was an apprentice printer at Plimptons.

The father was the late James G. Batterson, one of the founders of the Travelers Insurance Co.: The daughter was Mary Batterson Beech (wife of Charles C. Beech): the year was 1906, and the artist was Louis Orr, who died last week.

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