A. H. O. Rolle
Born: 1875, Minnesota
Died: 1941, Washington, District of Columbia
Also Known as: August Herman Olson Rolle, August Rolle, August H. O. Rolle
Works in the collection by this artist
Born March 3, 1875, in Sibley County, Minn. Attended Red Wing Seminary. Taught for a time, then entered the lumber business. Served in the military during the Spanish-American War. Lived in Washington, D.C., 1900–41. Was a forestry expert with the Bureau of the Census, 1900–41. Studied with Edmund Clarence Messer, Richard Norris Brooke, and James Henry Moser at the Corcoran School of Art, 1905–15. Was a founder-member of the Landscape Club of Washington, D.C., 1913. Died October 9, 1941, in Washington, D.C.
Andrew J. Cosentino and Henry H. Glassie. The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800–1915 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1983).
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