William A. Harper

William A. Harper (1873 – 1910) was a Canadian-born performer best known for his landscape paintings, and is represented in both the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the National Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C. Harper was born in the village of Canfield, near Cayuga, Ontario, Canada, and immigrated to Illinois in 1885. He graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago (“AIC”) in 1901, and next studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, France. Harper's paintings were regularly in style in juried exhibitions of the AIC and the Society of Western Artists and were conventional with compound awards.