Frank Fowler

Frank Fowler had the rare ability of stating in very agreeable and easily understood language his broad and liberal ideas on subjects pertaining to his love of art. He illuminated many of its phases which others left obscure, and admirable artist as he was possibly his writings revealed his truly artistic nature more completely than did his work at the easel. In some of his articles he gave a clearer, finer, and better expression of an artist[’]s ideals and purposes than has any other writer of recent years. His taste was catholic, and he was exceptionally appreciative of the work of men who followed lines entirely different from those of the school to which he himself belonged. He loved The Century and was one of its habitués, very modest and unobtrusive, receptive and responsive.

He was born in Brooklyn in 1852 and studied in Florence and in Paris for eight years. Returning to the United States he established himself in New York, became an Academician, was medallist several times, and painted the portraits of many well known men.

George William Knox
1911 Century Association Yearbook