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January 29, 1858
Henry Ward Ranger, American painter and academic (died 1916)
Henry Ward Ranger
Henry Ward Ranger was an American artist. Born in western New York State, he was a prominent landscape and marine painter, an important Tonalist, and the leader of the Old Lyme Art Colony. Ranger became a National Academician (1906), and a member of the American Water Color Society. Among his paintings are, Top of the Hill, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and East River Idyll, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
January 29
January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 336 days remain until the end of the year.