| LC control no. | no2015116269 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mackay, William Andrew, 1876-1939 |
| Birth date | 1876-07-10 |
| Death date | 1939-07-26 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Mural painting and decoration Art and camouflage |
| Profession or occupation | Artists |
| Found in | The murals in the Theodore Roosevelt memorial, 1944: title page (written by the artist William Andrew Mackay) Wikipedia, August 31, 2015 (William Mackay; William Andrew Mackay was an American artist who created a series of murals about the achievements of Theodore Roosevelt; those three murals, completed in 1936, were installed beneath the rotunda in the Roosevelt Memorial Hall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York; he was also a major contributor to the development of ship camouflage in the United States during World War I; Mackay was born in 1876 in Philadelphia to Elizabeth J. and Frank F. Mackay; after high school, he studied at the City College of New York, the Academie Julian in Paris, and the American Academy in Rome; as a muralist, he completed projects for the Library of Congress, the American Museum of Natural History, the Minnesota State House of Representatives, and other locations; he died on July 26, 1939 of a heart attack on a subway train at 125th Street and Broadway) Camoupedia, via WWW, August 31, 2015 (Camouflage Artist William Andrew Mackay; William Andrew Mackay (1876-1939) was a well-known American muralist who also played a prominent role in World War I ship camouflage; at the time, Mackay was working for the US Shipping Board (Emergency Fleet Corporation), for which he was in charge of painting camouflage on merchant ships in the New York district; earlier in the war, Mackay had proposed a camouflage scheme which became one of only five such schemes to be approved for use; later, he founded a camouflage school (c1920) and published a Handbook on Ship Camouflage (1937)) ancestry.com, August 31, 2015 (William Andrew Mackay; born July 10. 1876 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died July 26, 1939 in New York) |
| Associated language | eng |
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