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Ms. Coleman was
known as a painter, craftsman, etcher, teacher, writer,
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Alfred Bryan
Wall
As a second generation "Scalp
Level School" artist, Mr. Wall frequented that artist's retreat
outside of Pittsburgh with his father and uncle, Pittsburgh
artists Alfred S. Wall and William Coventry Wall. This
experience and the tutoring by his father was his only art
training. His work includes portraits of Andrew Carnegie and
Mrs. Henry Clay Frick along with his pastoral landscapes which
featured sheep and occasionally cows. His brushwork was often
loose but confident and exhibited a freedom of spirit. His work
is often described as being casual and calm but without
sentimentality. His first exhibition was in 1879 at the National
Academy of Design and he was a trustee of the Carnegie Institute
where he served on the Fine Arts Committee to help select the
permanent collect
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