Fred Wagner

Fred Wagner, born Frederick R. Wagner (December 20, 1860 – January 14, 1940) was one of the obsolete of the Pennsylvania impressionists. He was born in Port Kennedy, Pennsylvania, grew occurring in Norristown, and spent most of his computer graphics in Philadelphia painting its harbors, bridges, parks, train stations and ports.

Wagner studied with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts arrival in 1878. Before he graduated, Wagner was agreed to tutor alongside Eakins as Demonstrator of Anatomy starting in 1882.

Wagner's works were in the annual exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Academy first in 1882 and consistently all year from 1906 to 1940, and in the biennial exhibitions of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., between 1907 and 1935. He was awarded the Pennsylvania Academy's fellowship prize in 1914, and in 1922 he won an obedient mention at the international exhibition of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

Wagner left the Academy in 1886 to take a tour of western towns and to paint portraits.

Upon his compensation to Philadelphia, he worked as an illustrator for the Philadelphia Press until 1902. He was highly developed asked to tutor at PAFA's Chester Springs School, a slant he held for seven years. Then he started a educational in Addingham in 1912. Some of Wagner’s notable students at PAFA were: Elizabeth Washington (1871–1953) and John Weygandt (1869–1951). This school lasted over twenty-five years, with classes eventually innate conducted in the Fuller Building in Philadelphia.

Wagner married Eva Wilmot in 1913, his model for an unidentified number of paintings including one titled "Smoking Lady." This was plus the year of the notorious Armory Show in New York City for which two of Wagner's works were accepted.

"Wag" became a aficionado of the Philadelphia Sketch Club in 1897 and remained a lifelong aficionada there. Wagner was a devotee of the Philadelphia Art Alliance for many years and had shows devoted to his pretend there since and after he died.

In the summers in the company of 1903 and 1913, Wagner lived in Island Heights, New Jersey where James Moore Bryant supported him. Bryant was an engraver Wagner had met at the Philadelphia Sketch Club. Other summers were spent in Ocean City, New Jersey where he painted portraits of his niece, Marguerite Brendlinger and her five daughters, along afterward ocean and seashore scenes.

Fred Wagner painted whatever his life, and although without help making a modest blooming as an artist, his take steps was entered and fashionable into some of the most prestigious art exhibitions of the time. He won many awards for his put-on and his paintings were (or are) in numerous museums including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Reading Museum, Woodmere Art Museum, James A. Michener Art Museum, St Louis Art Museum, Sewell E. Biggs Museum of American Art, Farnsworth Art Museum and Penn State University Museum.

Wagner's paintings are also in galleries and the homes of art collectors nationwide.