Artist
Louis M. Eilshemius
born Arlington, NJ 1864-died New York City 1941
- Also known as
- Louis Eilshemius
- Louis Michel Eilshemius
- Louis Elshemus
- Louis M. Elshemus
- Louis Michel Elshemus
- L. M. Eilshemius
- Born
- Arlington, New Jersey, United States
- Biography
Born in New Jersey, studied in Europe, 1873–81, settled in New York City. Idiosyncratic painter who called himself a "Transcendental Eagle of the Arts" but whose increasingly subjective pictures received little attention during his lifetime.
Charles Sullivan, ed American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature (New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)