Background
Hallowell, Robert was born on March 12, 1886 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Charles and Frances (Ferris) Hallowell.
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Robert Hallowell
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Preparatory education, Friends’ School, Wilmington, Delaware, and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1910.
Career
Was illustrator of juvenile book, 1908. President Harvard Lampoon, 1909-1910. With Century Magazine, doing occasional illustrations, 1910-1914, American Magazine, 1913-1914.
With Treasury Department, Washington, District of Columbia, 1917-1918.
One of founders, treasurer and later public, New Republic, 1914-1925. Vice president Survey Associates, Incorporated., 1926-1929.
Painter in water color and oil, also etcher. Self-taught. First public exhibition, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1924.
Other one-man shows same gallery, 1925.
Druet, Paris, 1927. Montross Gallery, New York, 1924-1927. Jointly with wife, 1929.
Rehn Gallery, New York City, 1928.
Ferargil, New York, 1929. Knoedlers, Chicago, 1930. McClees, Philadelphia, 1933.
Macbeth, New York, 1935.
By invitation at Art Museum, Rochester and Baltimore, Corcoran Gallery, Washington. Republican in permanent collections of Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington.
Cleveland Museum. Brooklyn Museum. Baltimore Museum.
Lewisohn collection, New New York Collection of late Arthur B. Davies.
McBride collection, Cleveland. Collection of Harvard University, et cetera
Assistant to director, Federal Art Project, Washington, District of Columbia, 1935-1936, special adviser consumers division on price study staff, reviewing the economics of contemporary American art, 1937.
Quaker. Home: New Brighton, Staten Island, New New York
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Married second, Aurelia Caloenesco (Rumanian painter). Children: Robert Gilles (deceased), Carolyn Bayard.
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American