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N.Y. Sun.
November 8, 1916.
HENRY W. RANGER, PAINTER, DIES AT 58

Ranked as One of America's Foremost Marine and Landscape Artists.

CANVASES MUCH PRIZED

Hung in Leading Art Museums and Many Others Are Privately Owned.

Henry Ward Ranger, National Academician and considered one of America's foremost marine and landscape artists, died yesterday at his home in the the Sixty-seventh Street Studio Building, 27 West Sixty-seventh street. Cardiac trouble, from which he has been a sufferer for years, was the cause of his death.

Mr. Ranger ranked high among American painters. Sir Alfred East, one of the foremost British artists, who died recently, called him the greatest landscape painter of his day. His best known canvases include "High Bridge" and "Spring Wood" in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with "The Top of the Hill" in the Corcoran Gallery at Washington and "East River Idyl" in the Carnegie Institute Gallery at Pittsburg.

The works of Mr. Ranger, form part of many well known collections in this country and Europe. He himself estimated recently that 200 of his larger canvases are owned in the United States now. The Luxembourg Gallery in Paris honored him with a request for his portrait to be added to the collection of notable artists there, but the war prevented the work from being done.

Painted Boyhood Scenes.
Born in Syracuse, N.Y., in January, 1858, much of his work commemorated scenes made familiar to him in his youth. He was educated in the public schools and went to Syracuse University until his sophomore year. Then, after studying in this country for several years, he took up art in England, France and Holland, remaining abroad until the late '80s.

Mr. Ranger began as a water colorist and not until later did he begin to be known for his larger oil canvases. His work showed clearly the influence of the modern Dutch school. He won medals in exhibits in Paris and in this country at Buffalo, Charleston and other cities. John W. Beatty, director of fine arts for the Carnegie Institute, was arranging an exhibition of his works to be held next year.

Mr. Ranger had a summer home at Noank, Conn., a little fishing and ship building town six miles east of New London. It was located almost overhanging the shore, and from it he painted many notable marine scapes. Lyme, Conn., was another favorite location for his brush.

Expert on Work of Carot.

He was known as as an expert on Corot and was often called upon to judge the authenticity of some canvas credited to the French artist. He was a close friend of George Bernard Shaw. In his earlier days, when he was struggling for fame, he eked out his living by writing criticisms of opera and musical recitals for the newspapers of this city, for he had ability as a muscician as well as a painter.

Mr. Ranger was elected to the National Academy in 1906. He was a member of the National Arts Club, the American Water Color Society and the Lotos Club. He was a director of the studio building where he lived and president of the Sixty-seventh Street Atelier Association. His wife, who was Mrs. Helen Jennings, died in Milan, Italy, in June last year. 

Notice on funeral [[?]]

RANGER.-Suddenly on the afternoon of November 7, at his residence, 27 West Sixty-seventh street, Henry W. Ranger. Notice of funeral hereafter.

SCHIEFFELIN.-Suddenly, on November