biographie de Peter Alfred GROSS (1849-1914)

Birth place: Allentown, PA

Death place: Chicago

Addresses: Paris, France

Profession: Landscape painter, marine painter

Studied: Paris, with Yon, Petitjean, Chat

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1883-99; PAFA, 1883; Paris Expo, 1889; Crystal Palace Intl. Expo, London (med); Union Française (gold), AIC, 1897, 1899.

Member: Office Pub. Instruction, Paris; French Acad.

Comments: Lived in France from 1874-1914. His will provided for the founding of an art mus. at Allentown, and an art school at Muhlenburg College.

Sources: WW13; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 349; Falk, Exh. Record Series.