Charles Courtney Curran Curran was born in Hartford, Kentucky on February 13, 1861, the son of Ulysses Thompson Curran and his wife Elizabeth Thompson. He spent his childhood in Sandusky, Ohio. In 1883 he studied at the Cincinnati School of Design with Thomas B. Nobel; the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design with Walter Satterlee; and with Constant, Lefebvre and Doucet at the Academie Julian in Paris (1889-1891). He was a member of the National Academy of Design (ANA, 1888 and NA 1904; Council member; Recording Secretary, 1911-1920; Corresponding Sec., 1890-); the MacDowell Club; Allied Artists Association; New York Water Color Club, American Water Color Society; Society of Artists (1888); Lotos Club (Life member); Cragsmoor Barnstormer's Theatre; Fencer's Club and the National Arts Club. His awards include prizes at the National Academy (1888, 1893,1895, 1919); Paris Salon (1890); Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893); Atlanta Exposition (1895); Paris Exposition (1900); Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, NY (1901, also the Assistant Director of the Expo.); Society of American Artists (1904); St. Louis Exposition (1904); Society of Washington Artists (1905) and the Salmagundi Club (1933). His work is in the permanent collections of the Terra Museum of American Art (IL); National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution (Wash., D.C.); PAFA; Witte Memorial Museum (San Antonio TX); Fort Worth Art Museum (TX); Metropolitan Museum of Art; Vassar College; Columbus Museum of Art; Art Museum, Montclair, NJ and many other national collections. He was a teacher at the Pratt Institute (NYC), the Cooper Union and the National Academy. He married Grace Winthrop, June 12, 1888, who gave birth to three children, Louis Wickham , Emily and Stanley Thompson. Curran died on November 9, 1922 in New York City.

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