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Henry Varnum Poor

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Henry Varnum Poor 1888-1970, American painter, b. Chapman, Kans. Poor's lyrical still lifes, portraits, and landscapes are simply painted in many media. He painted murals in fresco for the Dept. of Justice and Dept. of Interior buildings, Washington D.C., and for Pennsylvania State College (now Pennsylvania State Univ.). Poor taught art at Columbia and in Maine. His work is represented in many American museums, including the Whitney Museum and the Metropolitan Museum, in New York City. He was also famed for his work in ceramics. Poor wrote Artist Sees Alaska (1945) and A Book of Pottery... Read more

Alfred Du Pont Chandler Jr
...the Eisenhower Papers. His first book was a biography, Henry Varnum Poor, Business Editor, Analyst, and Reformer (1956), which...Eisenhower scholar. In 1970 Chandler was the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Visiting Fellow at Harvard... Read more

1850-1877: Business and the Economy: Publications
...x2014; a handbook suggesting a secure method of business communication using telegraphy; Henry Varnum Poor, Money and Its Laws (New York: H. V. and H. W. Poor, 1877) — a financial history of the United States; A Practical Guide to Business... Read more

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	Sidney Simon, at 80; sculptor cofounded art school in Maine ; ...located on 160 acres of donated land, 30 miles west of Bangor, was founded in 1947 by Mr. Simon, Bill Cummings and Henry Varnum Poor to create an art school run by and for artists to counterbalance the heavy academic emphasis popular in art schools... Read more
	WHERE TO LOOK ; ...Britton in 1934, is in the student lunchroom. Uptown Branch Post Office, 4850 N. Clark, has glazed tile murals by Henry Varnum Poor, who also worked on Justice Department frescoes in Washington, D.C., and the illustrations for Jack London's novel... Read more
	Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.: business history as a management tool. ; ...was stored the personal papers of his grandfather Henry Varnum Poor. Poor, whose name survives as one half of the business...of articles, his dissertation and a book entitled Henry Varnum Poor: Business Editor, Analyst and Reformer. This treatise... Read more
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	Don't upset them or you won't get straight As Dan Gledhill explains why the ratings agencies have the power to make corporate giants quail ; ...sale of $10bn of bonds just because Standard & Poor's - along with Moody's the world's most influential...otherwise unavailable data on US companies - and Poor's Publishing, named after Henry Varnum Poor, author of the 19th century's definitive guide... Read more

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