Frederick Winthrop Ramsdell

Frederick Winthrop Ramsdell (1865–1915) was an American artist, best known for his iconic commercial advertising American Crescent Cycles.

Ramsdell was from Manistee, Michigan and studied at the Art Students League of New York under James Carroll Beckwith and progressive in Paris under R. Collin. (possibly Arthur George Collins). His operate was shown at the Paris Salon amid 1891 and 1898. He spent some years in France and Italy since returning to the States and settling in Connecticut. He owned two properties – one in Lyme upon Grassy Hill Road in 1907 and the second in Old Lyme on Sill Lane in 1915.

Ramsdell became a aficionada of the Impressionist Old Lyme Art Colony in 1907, and the Lyme Art Association, exhibiting once them in the company of 1907 and 1915.

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