Background
Ives, Percy was born on June 5, 1864 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Lewis Thomas and Margaret Wright (Leggett) Ives.
Ives, Percy was born on June 5, 1864 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Lewis Thomas and Margaret Wright (Leggett) Ives.
Education high school, Detroit. Studied Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts 4 years, Paris, France, 6 years.
Exhibited Paris, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, et cetera Most important works: President Grover Cleveland. Brittany Fisherman (World’s Columbian Exposition).
Mistress Ives (American Painters’ Exhibition, Detroit).
General Alger (United States War Department). Quarter-centennial portrait (1921) of Professor R. M. Wenley, University of Michigan.
Treaty of Saginaw (Cass High School, Detroit). Honorary mention, Buffalo Exposition, 1901.
Member Jury of Admission, Art Department, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904.
Member Jury of Admission, Art Department, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904. Member Detroit Museum of Art (incorporator, trustee and treasurer), Society Western Artists, Fine Arts Society (Detroit), Archæol. Institute America (treasurer Detroit branch).
Married Elsie Caron, June 16, 1890 (died 1915).