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Edmund William Greacen Biography
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1876 |
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Born in 1876, the year of the great Philadelphia Centennial Exposition
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1894 |
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Attended New York University
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1899 |
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Enrolled in the Art Student's League, where he studied with William Merritt Chase
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1907 |
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Greacen settled with his family in a small house in Giverny and became good friends with Monet’s son-in-law, Theodore Earl Butler, and his wife Marthe Hoschedé Butler
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1908 |
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Greacen and his family returned to New York
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1924 |
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Founded the Grand Central Art School
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1937 |
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Suffered the first of a series of strokes
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1944 |
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The Greacens moved to the Gulf Coast of Florida
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1949 |
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Greacen died at the age of seventy-three, White Plains, NY
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