Lungren biography

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View All Works. Painter and illustrator Fernand Lungren is best known for vibrantly colored images of the scenic wonders of the American Southwest. Lungren was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, but grew up in Toledo, Ohio. In , he abandoned his studies in mining engineering at the University of Michigan and went to Cincinnati. There, painters Alfred Laurens Brennan — and Robert Blum — encouraged Lungren to pursue art training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia under renowned realist painter and teacher Thomas Eakins.

Lungren remained at the academy only briefly, however, before moving to New York City with Blum to work as an illustrator. Lungren returned to America in and settled in Cincinnati to teach and work, exhibiting his oil and watercolor paintings widely. In , under the patronage of the Santa Fe Railroad, he made the first of several annual visits to the Southwest, where he studied the rituals of the native inhabitants as well as the distinctive landscape of the region for paintings and illustrations.

The year after his marriage in , Lungren moved to London with his wife.