biografía de Asa Coolidge WARREN (1819-1904)

Lugar de nacimiento: Boston, MA

Lugar de defunción: NYC

Direcciones: Boston; NYC, 1863; Washington, DC

Profesión: Engraver, illustrator, who also painted some portraits & landscapes

Estudios: apprenticeship under the Boston engraver, George Girdler Smith (see entry)

Comentarios: A son of Asa Warren (see entry), miniature painter and musician (see entry), he worked for Joseph Andrews, the New England Bank Note Company (see entries), and the Boston publishers Ticknor & Field. He lost the use of his right eye in 1897 which forced him to give up engraving for five years, during which time he drew designs on wood for other engravers. In 1863 he went to NYC as an engraver of banknote vignettes and book illustrations and later he was employed in the Government Printing Office at Washington. During his last years he took up landscape painting. He illustrated the first edition of Whittier's Poems.

Fuentes: G&W; Stauffer; Art Annual, V, 124, obit.; Boston BD 1842-60. More recently, see Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery, 170.