Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Charles Temple Dix
Artist
Centurion, 1859–1873
Proposed by
Oliver S. Strong
Oliver S. Strong
born
February 25, 1838
Albany, New York
Albany, New York
died
March 11, 1873
Rome, Italy
Rome, Italy
elected
June 4, 1859
Age twenty-one
Age twenty-one
Archivist’s Notes
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