Roswell Morse Shurtleff

{{Short description|American painter}}

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| name = Roswell Morse Shurtleff

| image = R. M. Shurtleff (page 258 crop).jpg

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| caption = from Essays on American art and artists, 1896

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| birth_date = June 14 1838

| birth_place = Rindge, New Hampshire, U.S.

| death_date = 1915

| death_place = New York City, U.S.

| education = Dartmouth College

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| occupation = Painter, illustrator

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Roswell Morse Shurtleff (June 14, 1838[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/1032 SHURTLEFF, Roswell Morse] in Who's Who in America (1901-1902 edition); p. 1032 –1915) was an American painter and illustrator. Born in Rindge, New Hampshire, he graduated from Dartmouth College and was imprisoned by the Confederate States Army for eight months during the American Civil War of 1861–1865.{{cite journal |title=Roswell Morse Shurtleff |journal=American Art News |date=January 9, 1915 |volume=13 |issue=14 |page=4 |jstor=25588502 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25588502 |access-date=28 February 2024}} In the postbellum years, he was an illustrator for magazines and newspapers, and an animalier and landscape painter. His work is in the collections of the Harvard Art Museums,{{cite web |title=Roswell Morse Shurtleff |url=https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/person/28707 |website=Harvard Art Museums |access-date=28 February 2024}} the National Gallery of Art,{{cite web |title=Roswell Morse Shurtleff |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.35990.html |website=National Gallery of Art |access-date=28 February 2024}} and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.{{cite web |title=Roswell Morse Shurtleff |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/roswell-morse-shurtleff-4443 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|access-date=28 February 2024}}

File:Roswell Morse Shurtleff - Scene on the Upper Hudson - 1920.14.1 - Reading Public Museum.jpg