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Jacob Elshin

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Jacob Alexander Elshin (1892 - 1976) was active/lived in Washington.  Jacob Elshin is known for Urban-landscape, portrait, illustrator.

The following was submitted by Jay Franklin, JFranklinFineArt:

b. 12-30-1892 St. Petersburg, Russia
d. 3-10-1976 Seattle, WA, USA

Lived at 1512 31st Ave S., Seattle, 1941

Painter and Illustrator who worked in oil, watercolor and tempera doing
portraits, murals, port scenes and religious iconography. He was the son of a
pre-revolutionary Russian Army General. He studied at the Nicholas Calvary School
and the Russian Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg and served in the White
Russian Army. Between the time he came to the U.S., he worked as a cartoonist
for the North China Daily News in Shanghai. He moved to Seattle in 1923. He
was a member of Puget Sound Group of Northwest Men Painters, Washington Artists
Union, Northwest Watercolor Society, and Pacific Coast Artists Association.
He exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum, 1937-1965 (honorable mention 1936 &
1939, first prize 1935, and second prize 1937), Palace of the Legion of Hono   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1255 characters.]  Artist bio

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12 Book References for Jacob Elshin
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1984 Cumming, William Sketchbook, A Memoir of the 30's and the Northwest School 239 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1969 Curator American Art from the Denver Art Museum Collection 127 No
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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