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Paul Swan

Paul Swan (1884 - 1972) was active/lived in New York, Nebraska, Illinois.  Paul Swan is known for Sculpture-figure, portrait painter.

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The following article is reprinted with permission from "Adirondack Life" magazine, volume XXXVI, no. 6, September/October 2005

"The Most Beautiful Man in the World" by Janis Londraville

"In his Adirondack tract Swan will Found a Greek Colony Where Beauty Loving Souls May Work Out Artistic Ideals." When the New York Sun attached this headline to a May 10, 1914, article on artist and dancer Paul Swan, his fame was growing. Just a year before, after Swan had performed at the Odeon Theater in St. Louis, Swedish-American literary critic Edwin Bjorkman wrote, "In one year, if nothing halts his progress, Swan will be the greatest dancer the world knows." Nor was his acclaim transient. A decade later he would be hailed by the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio as "Nijinsky's successor" after performances in several South American countries.

In 1914 theater impresario Arthur Hammerstein advertised Swan as "the most beautiful man in the world" when he   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 28642 characters.]  Artist bio

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