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Russell Alexander Alger McKinley Administration By Percy Ives Oil on canvas, 29½" x 24½", 1900

Source: SECRETARIES OF WAR AND SECRETARIES OF THE ARMY: Portraits & Biographical Sketches by William Gardner Bell from the CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY, UNITED STATES ARMY

The artist, Percy Ives (1864–1928) was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied art for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and for six years in Paris, France. Among his more important works is his portrait of President Grover Cleveland. He was a member of the Society of Western Artists, and an official of the Detroit Museum of Art and the Archaeological Institute of America. Ives painted Secretary Alger from life soon after Alger’s departure from the War Department.

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