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[[First Column]] , was president of the [[Monmouth?]] County Federation of Churches and was active in anti-saloon work. N.Y Herald Nov 8. 1916 - MR. HENRY W. RANGER, ARTIST, DEAD - Mr. Henry Ward Ranger, one of the best known of American landscape artists, died at his home here yesterday at the age of fifty-eight. His best known pictures included "The Top of the Hill," in the Corcoran Gallery at Washington ; "High Bridge" and "Spring Woods," in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. - [[/First Column]] [[Second Column]] N.Y. Times WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1916. - HENRY W. RANGER DIES IN HIS STUDIO - Dean of American landscape Painters Stricken Suddenly in His 59th Year. - WINNER OF GOLD MEDALS - His Pictures in the Metropolitan Art Museum and Many Galleries o' Europe. - Henry War Ranger, dean of American landscape painters, died suddenly in his studio at 27 West Sixty-seventh Street at 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He was 58 years old. Cardiac trouble was the cause of Mr. Ranger's death. He returned to New York from a sanitarium at Watkin's Glen, N.Y., last Thursday, and was in cheerful spirits up to early afternoon yesterday, when he felt a slight nausea as he was about to go for a walk. He lay down on his bed and in a few moments was dead. Mr. Ranger's pictures hang in many of the public art galleries of the country, including the Metropolitan Art Museum and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, as well as in many private galleries. His work was greatly admired by the late J.P. Morgan, who had a deep respect for Mr. Ranger's powers as a judge of art. Born in Syracuse, N.Y., Mr. Ranger received his education in the public schools of that city and in Syracuse University. He was self-taught in art. He assimilated various forms of landscape painting by travel and study in France, England, and Holland. Mr. Ranger had a Summer home in Noank, Conn., and the shores and hills of Connecticut were the subjects of many of his paintings. While the critics said that the first of the Ranger paintings were untrue to nature, this criticism was not often heard after his maturity. His work was generally known for potraying the force rather than the delicacy of nature. Among his finest pictures are "High Bridge" and "Spring Woods," in the Metropolitan Museum; "Sheep Pasture," in the Pennsylvania Academy; "Top of the Hill," Corcoran Gallery, Washington; "Bradbury's Mill Pond, No. 2, "National Gallery, Washington. Mr. Ranger took gold medals at Charleston in 1902 and in Philadelphia in 1907. His paintings also hang in several museums of Europe. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1906. He was also a member of the Lotos Club. For many years he had been a friend of Sir Alfred East of London. It had been Mr. Ranger's custom to spend the Winters in Porto Rico, and he had a large circle of friends at San Juan. In 1884 Mr. Ranger married Miss Helen E. Jennings of Syracuse. She died in Geneva, Switzerland, in June of 1915. They had no children. - [[9.30 A.M.?]] RANGER. - Suddenly, on the afternoon of Nov. 7, at his residence, 27 West 67th St. Henry W. Ranger. Notice of funeral hereafter. [[Both or Roth?]] - Suddenly Nov. 5 1916 Katharina
