Background
Cross, Anson Kent was born on December 6, 1862 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George O. and Abigail (Brown) Cross.
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Anson Kent Cross
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Educational public schools, Lawrence, Massachusetts. Graduate Massachusetts Normal Art School Boston, 1883.
Career
Taught free hand and mechanic drawing, evening drawing schools, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1879-1881. Member of faculty Normal Art School, 1882-1921. Instructor evening drawing schools, Boston, 1883-1886.
Principal same, 1836-1900.
Instructor in Art Museum School of Drawing and Painting, 1891-1926. Director university extension, Art Department of Columbia University, 1926-1936.
Director Anson K. Cros Art School, Incorporated., (summers) Boothbay Harbor, Maine (winters) Saint St. Petersburg, Florida Invented rotary snowplow when pupil in high school and has taken out 23 patents since 1887. Patented Vermeer’s camera, 1934.
Bronze medals, Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, Boston, 1887.
Paris Exposition, 1899, for artists’ easels. Bronze medal, Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, 1892, for landscape painting. Patented the Cross drawing glass, 1912, for which was awarded bronze medal, Panama Philippine Islands Exposition, 1915.
Patented drawing and painting glass, 1921.
Honorary member Copley Society. Artist member Boston Art Club.
Author: Free-Hand Drawing, Light and Shade, and Free-Hand Perspective, 1892. Drawing in Public Schools, 1893.
Mechanical Drawing, 1895.
Color Study, 1896. Free-Hand Drawing, 1896. Primary Lessons, 1896.
Grammar Lessons, 1896.
National Drawing Cards, 1896. National Drawing Books, 1896. Light and Shade, 1897.
Drawing and Painting Self Taught, 1922.
Appointed member of advisory council The Living Age, 1933. Home: Boothbay Harbor, Maine (May to November).
Saint St. Petersburg, Florida (November to May).
Achievements
Membership
Member of faculty Normal Art School, 1882-1921. Member Copley Society.
Connections
Married Mistress;; married second, Gertrude East. Whipple, July 14, 1913.
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American