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  • 91Pennsylvania — /pen seuhl vayn yeuh, vay nee euh/, n. a state in the E United States. 11,886,728; 45,333 sq. mi. (117,410 sq. km). Cap.: Harrisburg. Abbr.: PA (for use with zip code), Pa., Penn., Penna. * * * I officially Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State (pop …

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  • 92Philadelphia — /fil euh del fee euh/, n. a city in SE Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River: Declaration of Independence signed here July 4, 1776. 1,688,210. * * * City (pop., 2000: 1,517,550) and port, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., at the confluence of the… …

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  • 93Chagall, Marc — born July 7, 1887, Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire died March 28, 1985, Saint Paul, Alpes Maritimes, France Belarusan French painter, printmaker, and designer. After studying painting in St. Petersburg, he moved to Paris in 1910. During the… …

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  • 94Marc, Franz — born Feb. 8, 1880, Munich, Ger. killed in action March 4, 1916, near Verdun, France German painter. His early works were academic, but exposure to Impressionism and Jugendstil lightened his style, and in 1911, with Vasily Kandinsky and other… …

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  • 95Salon des Indépendants — Annual unjuried exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, held in Paris since 1884. Organized as a second Salon des Refusés, it was established in response to the rigid traditionalism of the official government sponsored Salon. Its… …

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  • 96Vlaminck, Maurice de — born April 4, 1876, Paris, France died Oct. 11, 1958, Rueil la Gadelière French painter. Noted for his brash temperament as well as his flair for landscapes, he began in 1900 to share a studio with André Derain, a friend from childhood. In 1905… …

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  • 97Annenberg, Walter H. — ▪ 1995       In 1994 many people considered the life of Walter Annenberg an American success story: an immigrant s son who gained renown as a publisher, an ambassador, an art collector, and one of the most important philanthropists in the U.S. It …

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  • 98Barnes, Albert C. — ▪ American inventor and art collector in full  Albert Coombs Barnes  born Jan. 2, 1872, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. died July 24, 1951, Chester county, Pa.       American inventor of the antiseptic Argyrol (a mild silver protein) and noted art… …

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  • 99Delacroix, Eugène — ▪ French artist Introduction in full  Ferdinand Eugène Victor Delacroix  born April 26, 1798, Charenton Saint Maurice, France died August 13, 1863, Paris       the greatest French Romantic painter, whose use of colour was influential in the… …

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  • 100Jeu de Paume — ▪ museum, Paris, France French“Palm Game”also known as  Galerie Nationale de l Image  or  Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume        museum in Paris built as a tennis court and later converted into an Impressionist art museum and subsequently into… …

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