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Clinton Ogilvie

Artist

Centurion, 1887–1900

Full Name Clinton Halsey Ogilvie

Born 28 December 1838 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 28 November 1900 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown, New Jersey

Proposed by George H. Smillie and Arthur Brooks

Elected 5 February 1887 at age forty-eight

Seconder of:

Century Memorial

Clinton Ogilvie was an excellent landscape artist and had achieved a wide reputation. He had studied extensively abroad, and had studios at various times in Paris, Nice and Mentone. He had exhibited extensively both in Europe and America, and was a member of the National Academy of Design. He held high rank in his profession, was highly esteemed by the public and by the brotherhood of artists in The Century, of which it is such an important part.

Henry E. Howland
1901 Century Association Yearbook