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Karen Hunger Parshall is an American historian of mathematics. She is the Commonwealth Professor of History and Mathematics at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment in the Corcoran Department of History and Department of Mathematics. From 2009 to 2012, Parshall was the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the College of Arts in Sciences at UVA, and from 2016 to 2019 she was the chair of the Corcoran Department of History.
Frederick Ballard Williams was an American landscape and figure painter. He is best known for his decorative and idyllic scenes of the New England landscape. As a member of the National Academy, Salmagundi Club president, and founder of the American Artists Professional League, Williams was an influential figure in the promotion of 20th-century art in America.
John Millard Ferren was an American artist and educator. He was active from 1920 until 1970 in San Francisco, Paris and New York City.
Keepapitchinin is an American history blog written by American independent historian Ardis Parshall who specializes in Mormon history. The site was founded in 2008, namesaked for a humorous newspaper published sporadically between 1867 and 1871 pseudonymously written by George J. Taylor, Joseph C. Rich, and Heber John Richards. Parshall received an award in 2010 for her Keepapitchinin essay "Beards" from the Association of Mormon Letters and was awarded by the Bloggernacle as 2010 Best Blogger and 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2013 Best Solo Blog. Parshall's article "'Pursue, Retake & Punish’: The 1857 Santa Clara Ambush" received the 2005 Dale L. Morgan Award of the Utah State Historical Society.
William Traher (1908-1984) was an American painter and muralist. He painted a mural in the DeWitt Post Office in DeWitt, Arkansas. His work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1936.
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- ↑ "DeWitt Parshall papers, 1898-1932". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
- ↑ "DeWitt Parshall, Noted Painter, Succumbs at 91". The Los Angeles Times. July 8, 1956. p. 39. Retrieved July 11, 2020– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "The Great Abyss ca. 1910–12 Dewitt Parshall American". The Met. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
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