biographie de Wilbur Aaron REASER (1860-1942)

Birth place: Hicksville, OH

Death place: Minneapolis, MN

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Portrait painter, lecturer

Studied: Mark Hopkins Inst., San Fran.; Acad. Julian, Paris, with B. Constant, Lefebvre, Doucet, 1888-89.

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1890, 1893; California Expo, 1894 (gold medal); NAD, 1897 (first Hallgarten prize), 1900; PAFA Ann., 1898, 1900; AIC

Member: San Fran. AA

Work: Des Moines Woman's Club; Carnegie Gallery, Pittsburgh; Art Gallery, Des Moines; portraits, U.S. Senate Lobby, Capitol (Montpelier, VT), Capitol (Charleston, WV), Iowa State Hist. Soc. (Des Moines, IA).

Comments: Specialty: portraits; pastel.

Sources: WW40; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 174; Fink, Am. Art at the 19th c. Paris Salons, 383; Falk, Exh. Record Series.