The Great River: Poems and Pictures - Facsimile Edition of 1911 Ed with previously unpublished poems added (Limited Edition)
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Frederick Oakes Sylvester: The Principia collection
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Foreword by William H. Gerdts. Examines Sylester the educator and Sylester the artist. Illustrated in color and B/W. 127p. Frederick Oakes Sylvester (1869-1915), an American artist, spent his career documenting the Mississippi. He was the Art Director for The Principa, a Christian Scientist school in St. Louis.
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Frederick Oakes Sylvester was an American painter. He is noted for his paintings that had won him numerous awards, as well as for his service as president of the St. Louis Artists' Guild.
Background
Frederick Oakes Sylvester was born on October 8, 1869 in Brockton, Massachussets, only son and second child of Charles Fred and Mary Louise (Kilburn) Sylvester. His father, a fashioner of shoemaking tools and later a hardware merchant, belonged to a Plymouth family, while his mother was a descendant of a line of Provincetown seafarers.
Education
Frederick Sylvester attended high school in Fall River, Massachusetts, and during the summer of 1887 he hiked around Massachusetts and Connecticut with a friend, camping out and sketching.
He entered Massachusetts Normal Art School in 1888 and took the six-year
Teacher's Course. His aunt Rebecca Noyes and his great-aunt Hannah Soule, descendant of the Mayflower Soules, financially supported him in this period. He graduated in 3 years with honors in public speaking and reading.
Career
After completing his course at the Normal Art School in 1891, Frederick Sylvester was appointed an assistant professor of drawing and painting in Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
In September 1892 he became head of the drawing department in the Normal and High School, St. Louis, Missouri, and he taught in the St. Louis school system until 1913, when long illness finally forced him to take a leave of absence. He resigned the next year.
An early convert to Christian Science, he had become meanwhile (1901) one of the first teachers at the Principia, with whose development he was closely associated until his death. The Mississippi River, which became his favorite subject for painting, first aroused Sylvester at New Orleans, where he painted waterfront objects.
Later, omitting all signs of man and commerce, he began to record the simple majesty of the river's various moods, especially as revealed in the region of its towering palisades above Alton, Ill.
His "unquestioned place in the art of the Middle West" rests on the many canvases produced in his bluff-crest studio near Elsah, Ill. , which afforded a particularly fine view of the broad river.
He preferred quiet tones--pale greens, mild blues, gray and rose--but also employed the bolder hues of sunset and autumn foliage. Typical of his work is "The River's Golden Dream, " which hangs in the City Art Museum, St. Louis. A collection has been assembled at the Principia, while there are other examples in the St. Louis public library, at the University of Missouri, Christian College, and in private hands. When not teaching or painting, Sylvester devoted himself to writing.
Like his canvases, his books, Verses (1903) and The Great River: Poems and Pictures (1911), reveal the solace he found in the contemplation of nature. He took a leading part in the development of the art colony of St. Louis and was head of its Artists' Guild, 1907-08.
Always frail, he died of tuberculosis in his forty-sixth year, survived by his widow, a daughter, and a son. As he requested, his body was cremated, and the ashes were scattered in the river which was his joy in art and life.
Frederick Sylvester was a member of the St. Louis Artists' Guild.
Connections
On Christmas of that year Frederick Oakes Sylvester married Florence Isabel Gerry of Fall River. They had two children: Dorothy Louise (b. 1894) and Kilburn Gerry (1899).