Background
Bailey, Vernon Howe was born on April 1, 1874 in Camden, New Jersey, United States. Son of Amasa P. and Abby S. (Wise) Bailey.
Bailey, Vernon Howe was born on April 1, 1874 in Camden, New Jersey, United States. Son of Amasa P. and Abby S. (Wise) Bailey.
Student Friends’ Central School, Pennsylvania Museum School of Art, and Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Academie de l’Ecluse. Academie Bilouil, Paris.
Staff artist, Philadelphia Times, 1892-1894, Boston Herald, 1894-1901 (special artist at coronation of Edward VII). Artist contributor Graphic, Mail and Express, Lodon, The Studio, London, 1902, and since to American magazines and newspapers, Century, Scribner’s, Harper’s, also New York Herald, Sun, Times, World, others Exhibited 1st at Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1891.
Later Architectural League, New York, Albright Gallery, Buffalo, Cleveland Museum Art, Detroit Institute Art, Newport Art Association, Salon des Beaux Arts, Paris.
Reppresented in permaent collections Detroit Institute Art, Minnesota State Art Society, Saint Paul, New York Public Library, Hispanic Society American New York (197 drawings of Spain), Musee de la Guerre of France (lithographs of America war subjects), Museum City of New New York National Library, Madrid, Library for American Studies, Rome, Vatican Library.
First artist on declaration of war, 1917, authorized by United States Government to make drawings of navy yards, munition factories, American fleet, et cetera, drawings exhibited in leading museums public in magazines Received official thanks United States Navy.
Complete collection of 80 drawings purchased and presented to Smithsonian Institution National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1923.
Made 2d tour of Spain, 1925. Exhibited 41 lithographs of New York skyscrapers in New York, 1927, later in London, Madrid and Rome. Received royal decree of thanks from Alphonso XIII of Spain.
Received in private audience by Mussolini.
Made first comprehensive collection, 1932-1933, of 100 water colors and drawings of Vatican Palace including private apts. of Pope, exhibited same in American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, 1933, Massachusetts Institute Technology, U. Laval (Quebec), 1943, Museum Fine Arts, Montreal, 1944. Made 830 drawings, 1934-1937, public as daily feature, under title of Intimate Sketches of New York, and Sketches of New York Suburbs in New York Sun, also exhibited in New York, public as books, Magical City, 1935.
Travel and work in countries of Western and Central Europe, 1937-1938. Make a pictorial record of defense activities in navy yards, naval air stations and other naval bases for Navy Department, 1941.
Visited every leading navy yard and air station exhibited under Navy auspices, Corcoran Galery of Art, Washington, 1942, and art museum throughout country for 2 years.
Member Society Colonial Wars, South.R. Member Hispanic Society American, Royal Academy Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid.
Married Lillian M. Cate, November 4, 1896 (died 1900). Married second, Edith O’Brien Carr, January 23, 1902.