Artist
Centurion, 1859–1873
Born 25 February 1838 in Albany, New York
Died 11 March 1873 in Rome, Italy
Proposed by Oliver S. Strong
Elected 4 June 1859 at age twenty-one
Archivist’s Note: Son of (nonmember) John Adams Dix, governor of New York from 1873 to 1874, among other political offices
Century Memorial
The promise displayed by Dix as an artist, in one of the most brilliant of the canvases that adorn our gallery, inspires regret that his genius was lost almost before it had begun to mature.
Augustus R. Macdonough
1874 Century Association Reports
