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Frank G. Applegate
FRANK APPLEGATE (1881-1931) was an author, painter, sculptor, and scholar.
He was born in Atlanta, Illinois on February 8, 1881 and graduated with a B.A. from the University of Illinois in 1906. H...view moreFRANK APPLEGATE (1881-1931) was an author, painter, sculptor, and scholar.
He was born in Atlanta, Illinois on February 8, 1881 and graduated with a B.A. from the University of Illinois in 1906. He also attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Academy Julien in Paris, France. Applegate taught sculpture and ceramics at the School of Industrial Arts in Trenton, New Jersey from 1907-1921. He married Alta Bertha Chenoweth in 1908 and had one daughter, Ruth Elizabeth “Betty,” born in 1911.
In 1921, Applegate moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. He spent several summers in Arizona, where he lived with the Hopi to collect stories and help revive Indian arts. In Santa Fe, he collected and restored Spanish Colonial arts and crafts, and with Mary Austin, co-founded the Spanish Colonial Arts Society.
Applegate’s works include Indian Stories from the Pueblos (1929), Native Tales of New Mexico (completed by Mary Austin in 1932), and an unpublished manuscript on Spanish colonial arts. He was a contributor to the Southwest Review, Folk-Say, and the Saturday Review of Literature.
He died in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 12, 1931, aged 50.
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