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Louis Michel Eilshemius Biography
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1864
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Born February 4 at Laurel Hill Manor near Newark, New Jersey: Louis Michel Eilshemius
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1873
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First trip to Europe with his parents
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1875 - 1881
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In school, Dresden, Germany
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1882 - 1884
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Attends Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y
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1884 - 1886
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Studies painting at the Arts Students League in New York and privately with Robert L. Minor
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1886 - 1887
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To Paris where he continues to study at the Academie Julian
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1888
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His parents buy a brownstone house at 118 East 57th Street, New York which is to be his home until his death
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1892
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His father dies and he travels for two years in Europe and North Africa
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1901
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Trip to Samoa and the South Seas
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1902 - 1903
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Returns and travels in southern United States and again in Europe
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1917
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First recognition: Marcel Duchamp and other artists champion him as a result of his painting supplication in the "Independents"
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1921
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He gives up painting
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1932
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Injured on 57th Street and permanently paralyzed
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1932 - 1941
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Over twenty-five one man exhibitions held on 57th Street with unheard of sales and publicity
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1941
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December 17 taken to Bellevue Hospital, New York where he dies on December 29
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