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...KRIEGHOFF President Krieghoff Co. Detroit...
...Cornelius Krieghoff fought for the U.S. against the Indians, then went over the hill into Canada and became Quebec's most popular artist. Influenced by Currier & Ives, he produced a rich record of mid-19th century life in the snowy north...
...Brigade. Among the first was Cornelius Krieghoff, adventuring son of a Dutch wallpaper manufacturer, who fought for the U.S. in the Indian wars and then went over the hill into Canada one night when his regiment camped near the border. He had an illustrator's eye for detail which rivaled his contemporaries, Currier & Ives. The other big man of his day was Paul Kane, who may have been the real counterpart of "Langdon Towne," the painter-hero in Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage. To paint wilderness Indians as they really were, he accompanied a Hudson's Bay Company...
Died. William George Krieghoff, 54, Philadelphia Public Ledger's famed portraitist, painter of the late Chief Justice Taft, Col. Lindbergh. Eva Le Galhenne; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia...
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