Daniel Folger 7 BIGELOW
Photo of the artist at work.
See Adirondack Life article for
example of his work and more information.
Also see Page 2 for more information
on Daniel Folger 7 Bigelow.
Also see Page 4 for 1997 information
from Chicago Art Institute.
Also see Page 5 for new article (1998)
on Daniel Folger Bigelow.
Also see Page 3a for artwork by Daniel
Folger Bigelow.
See "Bible" of Daniel Folger
Bigelow
15146.33 Daniel Folger 7 BIGELOW,
son of Nathan 6 (Nathan 5,John 4,John 3,Samuel 2,
John 1), and Clarinda Folger
(BARKER) BIGELOW, was born 22 July 1823 Peru, Clinton co, NY. He married
01 November 1865 Charlotte "Lottie" BARNES (see
below) of Schuyler Falls, Clinton, NY. She was born 20 July 1884
in Schuyler Falls, the daughter of Dr. Melvin Allen and Phoebe (Edgarton)
Barnes. Daniel was a landscape painter and became associated with G.P.A.
Healy and Associates who founded the Chicago Academy of Design. They resided
in Peru, NY and later, (1858), Chicago. He died in Chicago 14 July 1910,
age 87. There is a stone in the New Schuyler Falls cemetery on Felton Road,
that lists Charlotte Barnes Bigelow 1844-1940, "buried in Chicago". The stone
that Charlotte is inscribed also has "Melvin Allen Barnes and Phebe Edgerton".
This same Schuyler Falls cemetery has the headstone of Daniel's parents.
Legend: {Nathan Bigelow; died May 16, 1860 ; age 67. Clarinda F Barker; his
wife; died June 20, 1874; age 78}
Children of Daniel Folger and Charlotte (BARNES) BIGELOW:
15146.331 Folger Allen, b 11 March 1868 Chicago, IL; died
16 Sept 1891 Chicago from accidental gunshot.
15146.332 Florence Edgerton "Daisy",
b 14 Feb 1871 Chicago; d 26 Apr 1951; She painted flowers with watercolors
and exhibited in several galleries around the Chicago.. She taught art at
Hyde Park High School in Chicago for more than 40 years. (see below)
15146.333 Louis Barnes, b 16 May 1884 Chicago;
d 16 Jan 1974; m (1) 16 May 1908 Frances Catherine Baker; m (2) 21 Nov 1942
Katharine Underhill (DFB Bible); 4 children with Frances.(see below)(see below)
Sources:
Howe, Bigelow Family of America pages 477 - 478;
Bigelow Family Genealogy Vol II page 34;
One of Daniel's landscapes was chosen and displayed at :
THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION 1893 (link no longer valid)
(../rod2005b/lottie1.jpg) see Lottie Barnes
Charlotte "Lottie" (Barnes) Bigelow was born 20 July 1884 in Schuyler
Falls, the daughter of Dr. Melvin Allen and Phoebe (Edgarton) Barnes.
Dr. Melvin Allen Barnes was born about 1811 and died 30 July 1889 at Schuyler
Falls in the 78th year of his age. (incription from Daniel's Bible). Also
inscribed in Bible: "Died at Plattsburgh, NY, Phoebe Edgarton Barnes, March
10th, 1903; Born at Chazy, NY June 17th, 1824. Mother of Charlotte M. Barnes
Bigelow". Also: " Died at Schuyler Falls, NY, Monday at 5:00 PM, July
12th, 1897. Phoebe Elizabeth Barnes - Lyon, aged 44 yrs, 9 mos, Born at same
place Friday 8:00 PM Oct. 21st, 1853. Youngest sister of Charlotte M. Barnes
Bigelow."
Charlotte was a descendant of Ethan Allen
of Vermont and Daniel was a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, through his mother's
Folger family.
Note:
Subject: Caroline Bigelow Gregorovius
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:17:23 -0400
From: "Pat Zima" < patz@inna.net >
Quite by accident I stumbled upon your web page as I was researching my
Grandfathers uncle, Ferdinand Gregorovius. I thank you for the information
on D. F. Bigelow and Folger Bigelow. Aunt Caroline had given one
oil painting to me and I inherited three others when my aunt, Dorothy Gregorovius
died. I guess I should have begun by saying that George Gregorovius
was my mother's brother.
We have lost touch and assume that Caroline has passed away.
Is she buried with George in Plattsburgh?
Pat Zima or patz@inna.net
Caroline died 05 July 2003 in Plattsburgh CVPH; burial in Schuyler
Falls ...............................ROD
Note2:
Subject: Geneology
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 16:34:25 -0500
From: "Richard Tunstall" < rltunst@charter.net
>
I did a google search on my great grandfather, DF Bigelow, and eventually
came across your name. My Mother's father
was Louis Barnes Bigelow, who was DF Bigelow's son. My mother told
the story many times of the tragic death of Folger
Allen Bigelow. I have paintings by both Daniel Folger and Folger Allen
Bigelow.
I would like to hear from you.
Feinberg Library Special Collections:
Call Numbers: MF D4
Last Updated: 1998-05-13 00:00:00
Author:
Title: THE ARTIST BIGELOW ...
Subtitle:
Place of Publication: PLATTSBURGH SENTINEL
Publisher:
Date of Publication: 3/31/1876
Extent of Information: P. 2, COL. 4
Physical Information:
Summary:
Tracings: BIGELOW, D F--PAINTERS AND PAINTINGS
Obituary of Daniel Folger BIGELOW (below)
(continued) He was one of the pioneers of art in the
West. He came to Chicago when the dialect of art was almost an unknown
tongue in this section of the country, save for the few who had learned
to speak it on occasional voyages to Europe, when such a voyage was an
event in the life of a man long to be treasured up and talked about. He
was without question, one of the most picturesque figures in the art world
of this country, noted not only for his age but also for the long lasting
vitality and freshness of mind and heart and mind with which he was endowed.
So far back do the earlier associations
of Chicago's late veteran painter go that they may be said to have mingled
with the twilight of the dawn of art in America. He was born in Peru, Clinton,
NY in 1823 of Quacker descent, and through his mother Abigail Folger was
related to Benjamin FRANKLIN. His father fought in the War of 1812, and
later proud of his son's talent, placed him with the sculptor Ashel POWERS,
a cousin of Hiram POWERS. Mr. BIGELOW said that he owed his delicacy of
coloring and treatment to this artist's influence. During his pre-Chicago
days he was associated with the Hudson School of Art and the art of Casselier,
Gifford, Shattuck, and the Hart Brothers. The influnce of that school clung
to him in all his subsequent work.
At 35 Bigelow decided he wanted to
come west. Arriving in Chicago in 1858, he took a studio in the Crosby
Opera House, in Washington street, between Dearborn and State, which was
then the leading theater of the city. During the immediately subsequent
period of his career, Bigelow was associated with the historic group of
artists led by G.P.A. Healy, and of which J.H. Drury and Mrs. L.H. St John
were distinguished members. In association with them, organized the Academy
of Design, which later became the Art Institute of Chicago. He was one of
the small group of artists who, as early as 1867, in spite of the barrenness
of the site, had the hardihood to organize an academy of design, which since
then has flowered in the handsome institution in grant Park and has proved
to be the mother of art in the West. Bigelow had the happiness of living
to see the growth and success of the idea of which he was in part the originator
and one of the warmest of friends and protectors. That the Institute honored
him with all the enthusiasm of which it was capable was to be expected, and
was a fact. He never missed exhibiting and his pictures were in demand. Needless
to say that he was fully represented in retrospective exhibitions of Chicago
artists. A few years ago the veteran went east for a sojourn in the country
of his birth a brought back a number of sketches. Among the most liberal
of his buyers were the various women's clubs of the city.
In the beginning of his career Bigelow
thought he had an inspiration portrait work and actually did some clever
things at that time but he later gave up that notion and centered himself
on landscape in which he persisted with success to the end of his life.
He not only painted, but he had a philosophy which he did his best to impress
on the young American painters who came within the sphere of his influence.
His advice to all such was not to go abroad for their subjects. He taught
that American scenes were the proper and the most fruitful for the development
of native talent. His own boyhood and youth were spent in the shadow of
the Adrondacks, and many of his later paintings were the result of sketches
made by him at that plastic time of his life. The beauty of American scenes
was not surpassed, he held, in any country of the world.
In the intervals of his busy life Bigelow
would now and then take a commission for painting the home of some Chicago
friend, and at those times, he has reproduced the residences of the late
Judge Skinner, a pioneer Chicago jurist, Edward Teal, Edward Isham, the
Keith brothers and a few others.
He was fond of talking of the early days
of his life in Chicago, and few were the notable old residents who could
speak more charmingly or with more vivid effect than he.
BIRTHPLACE OF D.F.B.--- July 22, 1823 - Peru, NY More Info can be
found on page 2.
Two views of house Daniel moved to at 4 years old (photos 2005)
This house is on the Clark Calkins Road, outside Peru
A picture of the house he moved to at 4 years old can
be found on
Nathan (6) as well.
Note4:
Subject: L H Barnes
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:23:45 EST
From: T Eger Tibbz58@aol.com
I am trying to find out information on an artist by the name of
L.H. Barnes. I came across this website for Louis
Barnes Bigelow and am wondering if this may be the same person.
L H Barnes painted a portrait of my
grandmother in Savannah GA in 1944-45. He also painted portraits of
Hollywood stars and the pope. He died a
pauper in Savannah, Ga, July 1945 he was 61 years old when he died.
He was from Chicago and had been a
professor there. My father is trying to find information on
L H Barnes. The obit he has of him said that no
family could be found when he died. My grandfather an officer
in the Salvation Army in Savannah had been
taking care of him before he died.
Is this the Louis Barnes in your family tree?
\ T Eger
Note5:
From: Bill Hobbs
Vandy65@aol.com
Date: 12/15/2003
Dear Rod,
While searching
the Internet for info on D. F. Bigelow I accessed your webpage. I bought
a Bigelow oil painting outside of Richmond, Va. this weekend that came from
an Antique dealers estate. The dealer had lived in Virginia Beach, Va.
for 30 years after moving from Boston, Mass. The painting which measured
7" by 10" was in a gold frame that was inclosed in a glass covered shadow
box. Someone though it was valuable and wanted to protect the surface which
appears to be like new.
The painting is almost identical to the one titled River Scene on
your webpage with the exception that all the trees are green, a few less
rocks, and in my painting there are sailboats on the water. On the back
of the stretcher in pencil are the words "Near Westport,New York." Westport
is on the west shore of Lake Champlain so I think the mountains are the
Green Mountains of Vermont and the water is actually Lake Champlain. Look
like he painted more than one of the same setting. Thought you might be interested
in all this info.
Bill Hobbs
Vandy65@aol.com
Modified - 11/27/2005
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