Painting and Sculpture
Joseph Harrison Jr.
Joseph Harrison Jr. (September 20, 1810 – March 27, 1874) was an American mechanical engineer, financier, and art collector. He made a fortune building locomotives for Russia, and was decorated by Czar Nicholas I for completing the Saint Petersburg-Moscow Railway. Harrison made important innovations to locomotives and steam boilers, but he may be best remembered for the art collection he amassed, that included "supreme icons of American art."
Also on this shelf
Glenbow Museum.
Grandma's Fairy Tales.
See also
- ▸Alexander the Great Giving Campaspe to Apelles
- ▸Banarasi sari
- ▸Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels (Vienna)
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