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<mask> (born 19 July 1963) is a Swiss banker who has been serving as a vice chairman of BlackRock since 2012. <mask> was the head of the Swiss central bank, the Swiss National Bank (SNB), from 2010 until he resigned on 9 January 2012 after controversy surrounding his wife's currency trading. He had been a member of the central bank's governing board since 2003. Early life and education
<mask> attended the University of Toronto, Oxford University's Lincoln College, and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He was part of a group of students that helped out during the Annual Meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. There, he met leading international government officials and bankers. Career in the private sector
In 1994 <mask> began his professional career at WEF.He subsequently worked at Moore Capital Management, a hedge fund in New York and London, where he met his wife. He then worked as head of hedge funds for Union Bancaire Privée in Geneva and Vontobel in Zurich. Career at the SNB
<mask> was said to be the "youngest ever policy maker" when he joined the SNB in 2003. Prior to his resignation from the SNB, <mask> was a member of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, as well as vice-chairman of the Financial Stability Board. From 2008, he was a member of the Group of Thirty. Controversy around the 2009/2010 exchange rate interventions
<mask> was attacked after losses arising from SNB's exchange rate interventions between March 2009 and June 2010. In this period, the SNB accumulated foreign currency reserves worth over 200 billion Swiss francs (Codes: CHF, SFr).As the Swiss franc has appreciated, the interventions caused losses on SNB foreign currency positions equivalent to 26.5 billion Swiss francs in 2010 and 11.7 billion Swiss francs in the first six months of 2011. The SNB has defended these interventions as they made “sense at the zero lower bound when the traditional monetary policy instrument is exhausted”. Some international press and financial market analysts considered the interventions a “costly failure”. The People's Party (Schweizerische Volkspartei (SVP) / Union Démocratique du Centre (UDC)) and the magazine Weltwoche were critics of <mask>, demanding his resignation. Prominent figures of other parties supported <mask> and emphasized the political independence of the SNB. In an article titled “With Unsteady Hand”, Switzerland's major business magazine Bilanz criticized Mr. <mask>'s leadership of SNB, citing his limited experience and saying that Mr. <mask>'s actions in large parts seem to be the result of his eagerness to appeal to the public. Pegging of the Swiss Franc to the Euro since 6 September 2011
<mask> is considered a driving force behind the pegging of the Swiss Franc to the Euro announced on 6 September 2011.The central bank commits to undertake transactions to cap the value of the franc against the euro at a maximum of 1.20. In early August, the euro fell to near parity, at 1.00749, against the franc. After initial cautious reactions by analysts, the decision of the Swiss National Bank to aim to keep the Swiss Franc: Euro rate above 1.20 is considered to have been a success. 2011 personal foreign exchange trading and resignation
In August, 2011, <mask>'s wife Kashya made a CHF 60,000 ($64,400) profit on a currency transaction. At the time, <mask> reported the transaction to the SNB and moved to prevent future such trades with Bank Sarasin. His wife asserted her independent finance and banking experience as the basis for the "almost ridiculously cheap" trade. In January, 2012, <mask> denied accusations of insider trading in relation to the transaction, resisted calls for his resignation and called the coverage "a smear campaign".He said that his political foes endangered the secrecy laws and "the interests of Switzerland" with the accusations. "I made mistakes" in not canceling the trade, which profited from the SNB's decision to intervene in the currency markets two days later "but I always acted in line with the rules", he said. The profit in the later report was said to be CHF 75,000. A whistleblower alleged to have released the information about the trade has been fired and faces criminal investigations under Swiss banking secrecy laws. Kashya, who runs an art gallery in Zurich and previously traded currencies, made two other transactions – the three totaled $2 million principal amount – but the other two "didn’t break central bank rules because they were more than six months apart". <mask> "told reporters he had donated all profits made from ... currency deals to a Swiss charitable organization [and] ... said the Swiss central bank’s rules already meet European standards. Germany’s ... Handelsblatt newspaper questioned this.'If <mask> had been the guardian of the euro, and not the franc, then the European Central Bank’s rules would have given [him] no other option but to resign', the paper wrote." The whistleblower was reported to have given the trade information to Christoph Blocher, vice president of the SVP, and Blocher was one of the lead voices calling for <mask>'s resignation after the disclosure. Die Zeit in a strongly worded commentary downplayed any wrongdoing on <mask>'s part, stressing the evidence was "stolen" and the resignation came only "to maintain credibility" of SNB. <mask> announced his resignation on January 9, 2012 stating that “Credibility is a central banker’s most valuable asset,” and that the accusations came “during a time when total focus is needed on the duties.”  He also resigned his posts at the Bank for International Settlements and the International Monetary Fund. He issued a statement that included copies of E-Mails between his wife, himself, and his banker, showing that he was aware of the controversial trade shortly after the order had been given by his wife, but failed to request that it be immediately cancelled. <mask> was succeeded by vice chairman and interim SNB head Thomas Jordan. On 7 March an independent audit by KPMG of financial transactions by all members of the governing board of the bank found no breach of regulations occurred.Later career
In 2012, <mask> served as a senior visiting fellow at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government. In 2020, the Swiss government nominated <mask> as its candidate to succeed Angel Gurría in the position of Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for a five-year term. By February 2021, he withdrew his candidacy, citing insufficient levels of support among OECD member countries. Other activities
 Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Member of the International Advisory Board
 British Museum, Member of the Board of Trustees
 University of Toronto, Member of the International Leadership Council
 International Monetary Fund (IMF), Member of the Board of Governors (2010–2012)

Recognition
 2011 – "Central Bank Governor of the Year 2012", awarded by The Banker

Personal life
<mask> was a member of the Swiss national swimming team in the 1980s, and he was Swiss national champion in 1983 and 1984. His partner is Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, the Russian-born Swiss billionaire businesswoman, chairman of Louis Dreyfus and the former owner of Olympique de Marseille football team. On 4 January 2016, it was announced that she is pregnant with twin girls, and is due to give birth in early April. Isabella and Arina were born on 20 March 2016.References

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Living people
Chairmen of the Board of Swiss National Bank
Swiss male swimmers
University of Toronto alumni
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies alumni
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<mask> (born 8 July 1954) is an English journalist, television presenter and author. He is a regular columnist for The Times and the author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (2000), Voodoo Histories: the role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History (2009) and Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists (2016). He won the Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2001, and the What the Papers Say "Columnist of the Year" award for 2003. He previously wrote for The Independent and The Guardian. Early life and education
Aaronovitch is the son of communist intellectual and economist <mask>, and brother of actor <mask> and author and screenwriter <mask>. His parents were atheists whose "faith was Marxism", according to Aaronovitch, and he is ethnically half Jewish and half Irish. He has written that he was brought up "to react to wealth with a puritanical pout".Aaronovitch attended Gospel Oak Primary School until 1965, Holloway County Comprehensive (now Holloway School) until 1968, and William Ellis School from 1968 to 1972, all in London. He studied Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford. Aaronovitch completed his education at the Victoria University of Manchester, graduating in 1978 with a 2:1 BA (Hons) in History. While at Manchester, Aaronovitch was a member of the 1975 University Challenge team that lost in the first round after answering most questions with the name of a Marxist ("Trotsky", "Lenin", "Karl Marx" or "Che Guevara"). The tactics were a protest against the fact that the University of Oxford and Cambridge University were allowed to enter each of their colleges into the contest as a separate team, even though the colleges were not universities in themselves. <mask> was initially a Eurocommunist, and was active in the National Union of Students (NUS). There he got to know the president at the time, Charles Clarke, who later became Home Secretary.<mask> himself succeeded Trevor Phillips as president of the NUS from 1980 to 1982. He was elected on a Left Alliance ticket. Career in journalism
Aaranovitch began his media career in the early 1980s as a television researcher and later producer for the ITV programme Weekend World. In 1988, he began working at the BBC as founding editor of the political current affairs programme On the Record. He moved to print journalism in 1995, working for The Independent and Independent on Sunday as chief leader writer, television critic, parliamentary sketch writer and columnist until the end of 2002. He began contributing to The Guardian and The Observer in 2003 as a columnist and feature writer. <mask>'s columns appeared in The Guardians G2 section.His desire for his pieces to appear on the main comment pages, according to Peter Wilby, was reportedly vetoed by the section editor, Seumas Milne, although <mask> himself does not know if Milne was involved in the decision. Since June 2005, he has written a regular column for The Times. He has also been a columnist for The Jewish Chronicle. In addition, <mask> has written for a variety of other major British news and opinion publications, such as the New Statesman. In addition, he has written for New Humanist, and is an "honorary associate" of its publisher, the Rationalist Association. <mask> also presents or contributes to radio and television programmes, including the BBC's Have I Got News for You and BBC News 24. In 2004 he presented The Norman Way, a three-part BBC Radio 4 documentary looking at régime change in 1066.<mask> also hosted the BBC series The Blair Years (2007), which examined the prime ministership of Tony Blair. Some journalists were unimpressed with Aaronovitch or dismissed the series. Political views
<mask> gave strong support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Since the invasion he has taken the view that it liberated Iraqis, and has played down the significance of Iraq's putative weapons of mass destruction. However, he wrote in 2003: "If nothing is eventually found, I – as a supporter of the war – will never believe another thing that I am told by our government, or that of the US ever again. And, more to the point, neither will anyone else. Those weapons had better be there somewhere."On 7 September 2018, he labelled people who ask him about the article "lamebrains". He remains a strong supporter of former Prime Minister Tony Blair.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/09/david-aaronovitch-syria-vote-shows-ed-miliband-is-a-vulture-not-a-leader/|title=<mask>itch: Syria vote shows Ed Miliband is a 'vulture' not a eader'|last=Nelson|first=Fraser|work=The Spectator|date=5 September 2013}}</ref>

In late 2005, Aaronovitch was co-author, with Oliver Kamm and journalist Francis Wheen, of a complaint to The Guardian, after it published an apology to Noam Chomsky for an interview by Emma Brockes, in which she asserted that Chomsky had denied the Srebrenica massacre.Brockes, Emma (31 October 2005). "The Greatest Intellectual? ", The Guardian (London); the background was that Chomsky complained that Brockes' article was defamatory in implying he denied the fact of the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. The article has since been withdrawn from the Guardian's website, but, as Chomsky is opposed to censorship, it remains available on the official Chomsky website  Chomsky.info  A Guardian readers' editor found that the newspaper had misrepresented Chomsky's position on the Srebrenica massacre, and that judgement was upheld in May 2006 by an external ombudsman, John Willis. In his column of 5 September 2013, Aaronovitch criticised the Labour leader Ed Miliband for providing no alternative to military intervention in Syria, after the use of chemical weapons in the Ghouta attacks of 21 August 2013. For Aaronovitch, "politically [Miliband] is not a presence at all, he is an absence" and "is neither hunter nor prey, he is scavenger.He is a political vulture." During 2013, Aaronovitch became the chairman of the human rights organisation Index on Censorship, succeeding Jonathan Dimbleby in the role. In May 2014, he criticised Glenn Greenwald's involvement in the Edward Snowden NSA revelations, and characterised Greenwald as "a stilted writer of overlong, dishonest and repetitive polemics." In August 2014, Aaronovitch was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.Peter Dominiczak "Sir Mick Jagger joins 200 public figures calling for Scotland to stay in the UK", The Sunday Telegraph, 10 August 2014;

In 2016, he endorsed the United Kingdom's continued membership of the European Union in the 23 June referendum. Aaronovitch later said that Brexit would eventually be reversed as the number of older voters, who typically voted for Britain to leave the European Union, gradually die. Personal life

Aaronovitch lives in London with his wife and three daughters. He is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.Works Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (Fourth Estate, 2000) No Excuses for Terror, a 45-minute documentary film that "criticizes how the anti-Israel views of the far-left and far-right have permeated the mainstream media and political discourse. "Blaming the Jews, a 45-minute documentary film that evaluates anti-Semitism in Arab media and culture.God and the Politicians, 28 September 2005, a documentary film that looks at the important question of the increasing religious influence on politics in the UKVoodoo Histories: The Role of Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History, Jonathan Cape, 2009,  Published in the US in 2010 by Riverhead Books, Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists''. Jonathan Cape, 2016. References

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<mask>vitch's Guardian; columns
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English male journalists
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English people of Jewish descent
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<mask> (born July 19, 1987) is a retired Canadian ice hockey left winger. He most recently played for the Jacksonville Icemen of the ECHL. Marquardt was selected by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 7th Round (194th Overall) of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. Playing career

Major junior
A native of North Bay, Ontario, Marquardt wasn't selected in his Ontario Hockey League (OHL) draft year. Instead, Moncton Wildcats head coach, Ted Nolan, enticed him to come east and play in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), for the 2005–06 season. The Wildcats couldn't be happier, as Marquardt improved and garnered more ice time as the season progressed, finishing with 25 points, 16 of which were goals. The bruiser was one of the team's many unsung heroes during the 2006 Memorial Cup tournament.With the departure of several high-end prospects to a variety of AHL destinations, and coach Nolan to the National Hockey League (NHL), Marquardt had an unexpected surge in offensive production, in his second season with Moncton. He was top on the team in both goals and total points. 19 of his 41 goals that season, came while on the powerplay. After beginning the 2007–08 season with Moncton, he was traded at the deadline to the Baie-Comeau Drakkar. Marquardt registered a career-high 43 goals, split between his time at Moncton and Baie-Comeau, during the regular season. Baie-Comeau would be eliminated in the opening round of the 2008 Memorial Cup playoffs, by Rimouski Océanic. Professional
On May 27, 2008, his rights were traded from Columbus to the Boston Bruins, in exchange for defenceman Jonathan Sigalet Two days later, Marquardt signed a 3-year NHL Entry Level contract with the Bruins, on May 29.<mask> was assigned to Boston's AHL affiliates, the Providence Bruins, for the 2008–09 season. He made his professional debut on October 8, 2008, in a game against the Lowell Devils. His first professional season with Providence saw Marquardt appear in 71 regular season games, finishing with 22 points. He would also record 9 postseason contests, appearing in the 2009 Calder Cup Playoffs. He registered his first pro playoff assist and first goal, on May 13, and May 16, 2009, respectively. Providence were eliminated in the Conference finals, by eventual champions, the Hershey Bears. During the 2009–10 season, Marquardt was briefly assigned to Providence's ECHL affiliation, the Reading Royals, on December 29, 2009.He played in 3 games for the Royals, scoring one goal and tallying one assist. He was later recalled by Providence, on January 8, 2010. Marquardt would be reassigned back to the Royals again on February 25, playing in a further 6 games, adding another assist. On March 2, his rights were traded from Boston to the Edmonton Oilers, in exchange for Cody Wild. Marquardt transferred teams accordingly, and made his debut with the Springfield Falcons, playing in 4 games. He would later be assigned to the Falcons' ECHL affiliates, the Stockton Thunder on March 23, playing in 7 regular season contests, scoring one goal and tallying one assist. He would go on to play in the Thunder's postseason, playing in the 2010 Kelly Cup playoffs, Marquardt played in 15 games, collecting 10 points.Stockton were eliminated in the Conference finals by the Idaho Steelheads. On September 20, following a four-day stint at the 2010 Edmonton Oilers training camp, Marquardt was assigned to the Oilers' new AHL affiliate team, the Oklahoma City Barons, for the 2010–11 season. The 2011–12 season found Marquardt in the ECHL full-time, spending the first half of the season with the Bakersfield Condors, with whom he signed a contract on October 2. He was traded to the Florida Everblades on January 6, 2012 for Josh Van Dyk. The move would prove fortuitous for Florida, as Marquardt would assist the team in winning the Kelly Cup in the playoffs. Marquardt scored game-winning goals in Games 3 and 4, and a series winning overtime goal in Game 5 of the Kelly Cup Finals against the Las Vegas Wranglers. On September 2, 2014, after 6 seasons in the North American minor leagues, Marquardt pursued a career abroad in signing a one-year contract with German club, ESV Kaufbeuren of the DEL2.Marquardt played in 37 contests in Germany for 20 points before returning mid-season in January 2015, to ECHL to play again with the Florida Everblades, helping push team to finish 2 points from first overall and win the Eastern Divisional title. In the 2014–15 season with the Everblades, Marquardt was also named an Alternate Captain of the club and led the league in ECHL for shootout goal percentage 5 for 5 for 100% and shootout game winning goals. In 2015 surpassed 500 games as a professional player. On August 24, 2015, Marquardt re-signed with the Everblades for his fourth season with the club. As a free agent the following season, Marquardt left for a second tenure abroad, signing a one-year deal with English-based EIHL club, the Coventry Blaze on July 13, 2016. Marquardt departed Coventry after one season, in May 2017. After his departure from the Blaze, Marquardt stayed in the UK to sign for fellow Elite Ice Hockey League side Sheffield Steelers ahead of the 2017–18 season.In late July 2018, Marquardt moved to fellow EIHL side Dundee Stars where he will be player/assistant coach. On May 10, 2019, it was confirmed that he had re-signed to Dundee Stars for the 2019–20 season, captaining the team in addition to his role as player/assistant coach. Following the suspension of the 2020–21 Elite League season due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, Marquardt ended his four-year stay in the UK and returned to the ECHL to sign for Norfolk Admirals on September 24, 2020. However, with Norfolk pulling out of the 2020–21 ECHL season, Marquardt instead signed for fellow ECHL side Jacksonville Icemen on November 20, 2020. Marquardt retired in 2021, taking up an assistant coach role with the Western Hockey League (WHL)'s Seattle Thunderbirds. Personal
Marquardt's younger brother Cory, a former hockey player in his own right, is a country singer. Career statistics

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Florida Everblades players
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Jacksonville Icemen players
ESV Kaufbeuren players
Moncton Wildcats players
Oklahoma City Barons players
Providence Bruins players
Reading Royals players
Sheffield Steelers players
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<mask>avish Street and the McTavish Reservoir in Montreal are named for him. His home and monument in the Golden Square Mile were longstanding landmarks in Montreal. Renowned for his generosity, when the Chief of the Clan MacTavish had fallen on hard times and was forced to sell their seat, Dunardry, McTavish bought it back for the clan and gave his eldest son employment in Montreal. Highlands Background
In 1751, <mask> was born at Stratherrick in the Scottish Highlands, the son of John McTavish (1701–1774), tacksman of Garthbeg, who bore the arms of the McTavishes of Garthbeg. His mother, Mary Fraser (1716–1770) of Garthmore, was descended through <mask> of Dunchea and the Frasers of Foyers, from an illegitimate son of the 1st Lord Lovat.McTavish's father had fought as an officer with the Jacobite armies at the Battles of Culloden and Falkirk Muir, and he was one of the few who were specifically named as to not receive a pardon from George II after the Jacobites were defeated. In 1757, General <mask> of Lovat appointed John McTavish a Lieutenant in his newly raised 78th Fraser Highlanders. Apparently changing his name to 'Fraser' so as to escape the authorities, <mask>'s father went with the regiment to Nova Scotia and fought for the British at the Battle of Louisburg, where he was severely wounded and left. Unable to fight at the Battle of Quebec, he was only well enough to be sent home "as an act of charity to him and his family" in 1761. <mask>'s two elder brothers were taken into the care of their father's friend, Dugald MacTavish of Dunardry, Chief of the Clan MacTavish, and in 1764, at the age of thirteen, young <mask> was sent to New York with his sister and her husband, Hugh Fraser (1730-1814) of Brightmoney, Captain in the 78th Fraser Highlanders. North American fur trade

Having found an apprenticeship with a Scots merchant at New York, McTavish recognized the opportunities offered by the fur trade. By 1769, he was working for himself and in 1772 he went into partnership with William Edgar (1736-1820) at Detroit.In the Niagara Region, it was said he started trading in deerskins and muskrats, and only later became involved with the more valuable furs. Over the next few years, McTavish prospered in the trading of furs, and in 1773, with a new partner, James Bannerman, he extended his operations to Grand Portage on Lake Superior. At that important fur trade rendezvous, while other American traders concentrated on the south and west, McTavish understood that he would have access to fur pelts that were found in much greater quantity and were of better quality in the colder climate north west of the Great Lakes. Although at the time the Hudson's Bay Company controlled the prime north-westerly areas for fur trapping, there was still a relatively lucrative route from Montreal westward via the Ottawa River and out across Georgian Bay and the Great Lakes Region and into Manitoba. Most of the trade at Grand Portage went through Montreal. In 1775–76, McTavish had the great fortune to winter at Detroit, well stocked with trade goods for the next season, he made an expedition with George McBeath. The American Continental Army occupied Montreal that winter, preventing the Montreal traders from getting their goods to Grand Portage in the summer of 1776.This enabled McTavish, with little competition, to obtain furs which he valued at £15,000 and took to England to sell in a high market. Montreal

In the meantime, the Americans had withdrawn from Quebec, and <mask> transferred his operations to Montreal. He continued to trade on his own through the Revolutionary War, supplying goods both at Grand Portage and Detroit, and speculating in rum for the British soldiers at Detroit and Niagara. By the end of the war, he was able to put together a group of business investors and trapper/explorers to create the North West Company. With the Frobisher brothers he owned 37.5% of the company's shares and upon the death of Benjamin Frobisher in 1787 McTavish became the man in charge of the business. A restructuring of the company a few months later saw the shrewd McTavish gain control of eleven of the company's twenty shares. Most important, he was managing partner of a new Montreal firm, McTavish, Frobisher and Company, which imported the North West Company's goods and forwarded its furs to the London market, taking commissions on all transactions.The vertical integration of the business was extended in 1792, when the firm of McTavish, Fraser and Company was established in London itself, to procure the trade goods at source and sell the furs. From his headquarters in Montreal, over the next sixteen years McTavish built a business empire that stretched from the Labrador coast to the Rocky Mountains and in the process made himself a wealthy man. As the fur trade expanded across Rupert's Land, the HBC's financial dominance allowed them to take the advantage. The HBC had rejected the Nor’Westers’ request for the right to bring in goods via Hudson Bay, so at a great cost of £45,000 McTavish sent two expeditions to establish footholds for the NWC. These actions did not bring the desired effect and the NWC also failed in receiving a charter from the British government, leaving just one alternative — an attempt to purchase a majority of the shares in the HBC. During his time in Britain, <mask>sh had befriended the chief of Clan MacTavish, and on the chief's death, <mask> brought one of the sons into the North West Company. In 1799, McTavish did something that gave him great personal satisfaction: the acquisition of the Dunardary estate in North Knapdale, Argyll, which had been the ancestral home for the heads of the McTavish (MacTavish) clan for several hundred years.Although <mask>'s own family had been closely associated with clan Fraser, it is believed that his ancestors were a branch of the McTavish clan of Dunardary, who had settled in Stratherrick some generations before. As an astute businessman with great vision, McTavish recognized the need for industrialization of Montreal and that need presented opportunities to make more money. In 1802 he purchased the seigneury of Terrebonne where he built two modern flour-mills and a bakery and established a sawmill, encouraging other entrepreneurs to begin the manufacturing of wooden barrels. Dunardry and the Chiefs of Clan MacTavish

In 1782, <mask>'s father's friend and the guardian of <mask>'s two elder brothers, Dugald MacTavish, former Lieutenant in the 3rd Foot Guards and the 18th Laird of Dunardry, died. In 1785, Dugald's son and heir, Lachlan, was forced to sell the Dunardry estate, which had for many centuries been the ancestral home of the Chiefs of Clan MacTavish. As mentioned, Lachlan had grown up with <mask>'s brothers and he and <mask> had become good friends over the course of <mask>'s many trips to Britain. Since the sale of Dunardry, <mask> had pledged to his friend that he would assist him in buying back the estate, as soon as he "could with conveniency spare the money".Two years after <mask> learnt of the death in 1796 of his "poor old friend Dunardry" (Lachlan), he lived up to his word and paid £6,000 to restore his clan's honour and bring Dunardry back to the rightful Chiefs. Though in name <mask> had become 'of Dunardry', there was no personal gain attached to this for <mask> and he viewed the purchase as an "hobby-horse". Unfortunately, <mask>'s magnanimous gesture by the purchase of Dunardry became something of a burden to Lachlan's son as his own sons showed no interest in the running of the estate. They continued to acknowledge how very grateful they were to <mask>, but as the property had ceased to be profitable, they were not eager to take ownership of the estate. As such, <mask>'s sons, who both died young, had been styled 'of Dunardry', even though they too had no interest in the estate and never lived there. <mask>'s friend, Lachlan MacTavish, had been succeeded as Chief by his son Dugald MacTavish (1782-1855), of Kilchrist Castle; Sheriff of Campbelltown. <mask>'s sons were well-known to him and waiving the customary cost, <mask> took Dugald's second son (John George MacTavish) into the North West Company, where he became a member of the Beaver Club.When the NWC later merged with the Hudson's Bay Company, John continued to work for them and was considered one of their top traders. John later changed the spelling of his name to 'McTavish' in order to match that of his benefactor's, <mask>'s. John's elder brother, William MacTavish, 21st Chief of the Clan, also entered the fur-trade, working for the HBC and becoming Governor of Rupert's Land and Assiniboia. The Chiefs of Clan MacTavish remained in Canada, and the present 27th Chief was born at Montreal in 1951. Family and Monument

In October, 1793, <mask> married Marie-Marguerite Chaboillez (b.1775), daughter of Charles Chaboillez, a founding member of the Beaver Club. Directly after the marriage, they moved to London, where McTavish hoped to live permanently, but his new wife became depressed there and they returned to Montreal in the spring of 1795. The McTavishes had six children, four of whom lived to adulthood, but only one married.A monument stands to their four surviving children at Chiswick Parish Church:

<mask> (1796-1819). In 1817, at Marylebone Church, she married Major Charles Pasley (1781-1821), of Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London; nephew of Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley. His first cousin, Sir John Malcolm, had previously appointed him Chargé d'affaires to Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar of Persia on the part of the Supreme Court of India. Mary was given away by her guardian and first cousin, <mask>. She died at Sidmouth, Devon. <mask> (1797-1818). On his father's death he inherited £20,000 and the disposition of 'MacTavish of Dunardry' while the estate  was still between his own family and that of the Chiefs MacTavish.He died unmarried at Stroud-on-the-Green, near Kew, the home of his mother and stepfather, Major Plenderleath. William was described as 'of Dunardry' in his death notice. <mask> (1800-1819), died unmarried at Bridport, Dorset. <mask> (1803-1828). He inherited the rights to Dunardry from his brother but like the MacTavishes was uninterested in any claim. He died unmarried at his mother and step-father's home near Ramsgate, Kent. <mask> died in Montreal in 1804, leaving an estate of £125,000.In his will he bequeathed funds to a number of friends and relatives as well as the Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal and the Grey Nuns' Hôpital général. McTavish Street, bordering the westerly side of McGill University was named in his honor, as was McTavish reservoir, just north of the university. His McGillivray nephews organised his funeral, settled his will and built a memorial for him within the grounds of his house on the slopes of Mount Royal. They built a twenty-foot column enclosed by a walled mausoleum, that once occupied a prominent place in Montreal's iconography. In 1942, rather than repair the monument that had greatly suffered the effects of time due to a lack of maintenance, it was replaced it with a 5-foot granite block. By McTavish's will, he instructed that all of his children were to be taken to England for their education, and Mrs McTavish accompanied them in 1806. At London, in 1808, she took for her second husband Major William Smith Plenderleath (1780-1845), the recognized illegitimate son and eventual heir of General Gabriel Christie, by his mistress Rachel Plenderleath.<mask> was related to many of the most important persons in the Canadian fur trade: William McGillivray, <mask> and Duncan McGillivray were his nephews; <mask>, John Fraser (his London agent) and Donald McTavish were his cousins; Angus Shaw and John MacDonald of Garth were his nephews-in-law. Through his wife, MacDonald was the brother-in-law of David Thompson. Sir Alexander Mackenzie was the cousin of Roderick Mackenzie of Terrebonne, brother-in-law of McTavish's wife. References

External links
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

 <mask> Papers at Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University. 1750s births
1804 deaths
Canadian philanthropists
Canadian fur traders
North West Company people
People from Inverness
Pre-Confederation Canadian businesspeople
Pre-Confederation Quebec people
Scottish emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec
Anglophone Quebec people
Explorers of North America
Explorers of the United States
18th-century philanthropists

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<mask> (February 1877 –  19??) was a 19th-century outlaw who participated in the August 17, 1897 robbing of the McDonald County Bank in Pineville, Missouri. <mask>, who was compared at the time to the more prolific female outlaw Belle Starr, was one of only a handful of women who actively participated in the actual bank robbery process during that era. Background
Though <mask> claimed to be 28 at the time of the robbery, which would have put her birth in 1870, the 1880 U.S. Census listed her age as three, which would have meant she was born in 1877. In addition, the 1885 Kansas state census puts her birth year at about 1876 and the 1900 federal census, where she is listed as an inmate at a prison in Cole County, Missouri, lists her birth as being in February 1877. <mask> was born in Ohio to Union Army veteran Samuel C. and <mask>. She was the sixth of their seven children and their third and final daughter.In the 1880 census, Samuel (1841–1919) is listed as a cross tie maker and the family is listed as living in the Cedar township of Callaway County, Missouri. Between 1880 and 1885, <mask> died and the family moved from Missouri to Kansas, living in the Spring Hill Township of Johnson County and later Weir City. By August 17, 1897, <mask> had married and divorced one husband, James Russell, and had married her second husband, "Bud" Parker, just a month and a half earlier. At the time of her crime she was living on Parker's farm in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) not far from the Kansas state line. Plan
The plans for the robbery started on Bud Parker's farm near Nowata, Oklahoma, where he had recently brought his new bride, <mask>. <mask>'s brothers Al and William “Bill<mask> were living in the same area around this time and John Sheets, a 23-year-old from Missouri, was working on the Parker farm as a hired hand. It is likely the arrival of 31-year-old Albert Whitfield “Whit” Tennison, who drifted into the area that August, was the genesis for the bank robbery plan.Tennison claimed he had previous experience in bank robbing and soon had the group rallied around his idea. The McDonald County Bank was chosen because <mask> had previously lived in Pineville and knew its layout. <mask> drew up the map and Bud Parker, Sheets, Tennison and <mask> were designated to execute the plan. But, when the time came for it to be put into action, both Parker and <mask> backed out. <mask> then left with Sheets and Tennison and reportedly told her husband that she would not live with a “damn coward.”

On their way to Pineville, the three would-be bank robbers stopped in Coffeyville, Kansas so Sheets could buy a Winchester rifle  and ammunition. They then headed to <mask>'s father's home in Weir City. <mask> reported that when his daughter arrived she had her hair cut short and was dressed in men's clothing.After spending a couple days in Weir City, the group headed for Pineville, more than 60 miles away. The gang arrived in Pineville on August 16, 1897 and set up camp outside the town. The following morning, Sheets and Tennison went into town and checked out the layout and to make sure there were not any notable complications for their plan. Seeing none, they returned to the camp to get <mask>. Robbery
Sheets, Tennison and <mask> come into Pineville on the morning of August 17, 1897 and stopped about a block from the bank. <mask> was left to hold the gang's horses while Sheets and Tennison headed to the bank to carry out the robbery. Sheets and Tennison snuck around the corner of the bank and drew their weapons on three men sitting in front of the building, A.V.Manning, president of the bank; John W. Shields, Cashier; and Marcus N. LaMance, county treasurer. They reportedly told the three men, "we're here for the money and we want it damn quick." Sheets went into the bank with Manning and Shields, while Tennison stayed outside with LaMance to keep watch. Once inside the bank, Shields countered Sheets' demands and Sheets knocked him to the ground with his rifle. Sheets then ordered Manning to hold a sack while Shields filled it with money. Shields filled it with all the coins and currency he could find, a total of $589.23 (the equivalent of $15,700 in 2009 on the Consumer Price Index scale). Once they had the cash, Sheets herded Shields and Manning out of the bank ahead of him.He and Tennison then moved them down the street in front of them in an effort to keep bystanders from shooting. By the time they reached where <mask> was waiting with the horses, Tennison had also taken Manning's $15 silver watch. Escape and capture
From the stable, Sheets, Tennyson and <mask> mounted up and headed to the northeast. A posse quickly formed in Pineville and followed the small gang. Meanwhile, the gang changed direction and headed around Pineville, but someone reported the change in town and it was telegraphed to Noel, Missouri, about five miles southwest of Pineville. That afternoon, a search party from Pineville got in front of fugitives and joined another posse from Noel at the crossing of Butler Creek to lie in ambush. When Tennison, Sheets and <mask> started to ride down a gulch toward the creek, the posse opened fire, wounding both Tennison and Sheets with buckshot, mortally wounding Sheet's horse and shooting <mask>'s revolver out of her hand.The gang returned fire, slightly wounding one deputy. Tennison's horse became frightened in the clash, running away and separating him from <mask> and Sheets. Sheets and <mask> turned their horses around and made their way out of the gulch before Sheets' horse collapsed and died. Tennison's horse was later found grazing not far from the scene, but the robber was not with it. The next day, a report of a man paying for his breakfast the next morning in Indian Territory, about 25 miles from Pineville, and paid for it in pennies, which coincided with the fact that many pennies had been taken in the robbery. A posse headed by Joe Yeargain of Southwest City, Missouri followed that tip and found Tennison wounded in a cabin 20 miles inside Indian Territory, he had a .45 Winchester, .45 revolver and $121.50 from the robbery. He was captured without incident and was taken to Neosho, Missouri, about 30 miles north of Pineville, where he was housed in the Newton County jail.From Tennison, the posse learned that <mask> and Sheets were from Weir City. Yeargain then headed the posse to that Kansas town. <mask> and Sheets had stolen a horse at gunpoint near where the shootout had happened, providing them both with a means to escape. They traveled 70 miles to Parsons, Kansas, from where <mask> took a train back to Weir City on the morning of August 21. Sheets promised to follow in a day or two, and from Weir City the pair planned to escape to Iowa. Shortly after <mask> returned to her father's home in Weir City the posse also arrived. City Marshal Jim Hatton went to her father's house under the ruse of borrowing his tar kettle and discovered <mask> there.As the posse was returning to the home to arrest her, they located <mask> and arrested him for his role in the robbery, which they had been informed of by Tennison. After taking <mask> to the city jail, they returned to the <mask> home, where <mask> answered the door and obediently put up her hands "like a child at play putting up its hands before a toy pistol." A later search of the <mask> home by Marshal Hatton turned up $161 buried in the vegetable garden, $25 in a hill of peppers and the additional $141 in a hill of potatoes. Also on the premises they found the men's clothes worn by <mask> during the holdup. In response to this find, McDonald County Sheriff Richard Jarrett and Shields, the back cashier, went to Weir City on August 26. While they were interrogating <mask>, John Sheets drove up unaware in a buggy and was quickly arrested. In his buggy they found an additional $91 and a .45-caliber six-shooter.Along with Sheets, <mask> was also arrested and taken back to Missouri because of his reluctance to cooperate with officers in their search for the loot. Conviction
Sam and <mask> were released at Pineville on August 28, the day of the preliminary hearing for the three bank robbers. <mask>, John Sheets and Whit Tennyson were bound over for trial and returned to the Newton County jail in Neosho. They were convicted of bank robbery in January 1898 and sentenced to the state prison at Jefferson City — <mask> and Sheets for 12 years each and Tennyson for 10. Missouri Governor Alexander Monroe Dockery commuted <mask>'s sentence the day after Christmas in 1904, and she was released on New Year's Day 1905. During her imprisonment, the one-time bank robber had let her hair grow out but had apparently done little else to enhance her feminine allure in the eyes of the reporter who described her at the time of her release as "short in stature with ... black eyes and a greasy dark complexion." Accomplices
Albert Whitfield Tennison was born in either September 1865 or on November 25, 1863 in Illinois.He is listed as married in the 1900 census, when he was in the custody of the Missouri State Penitentiary. In the 1910 census he is married to the former Emma Hogan, but had only been married to her for three years. He died on December 12, 1932 in Hudspeth County, Texas. John Sheets was born in Missouri in December 1876. He lived for a time in Weir City, Kansas before becoming a farm hand for Bud Parker, <mask>'s second husband. In the 1900 census, he is in the custody of the Missouri State Penitentiary and is listed as single. No additional information has been located on him.Bud Parker was a farmer with a farm near what is now Nowata, Oklahoma. Though he was initially part of the plan to rob the McDonald County Bank, he eventually backed out, to the scorn of his new bride. William "Bill<mask> was <mask>'s oldest brother who was born around 1865 in Ohio. He was the oldest child in the family and for a time lived in Pineville, Missouri and drew a plan of the town to aid in the robbery. He was arrested and later released. Albert "Al<mask> was another of <mask>'s older brothers. He was born around 1871 in Ohio.He was living near the Parker farm when the robbery was planned and was originally planning to take part in the crime, but later backed out. Later life
Little is known about <mask> after her release from prison. She is listed as being divorced in the 1900 census, making it unlikely that she went back to her second husband, Bud Parker, after her release. But a small note in a Jefferson City newspaper did remark on her release in 1904. It said she had been employed as a seamstress during her incarceration and had been a model prisoner. Now proficient at sewing, she planned to seek employment in that line of work. Legacy
As one of only a handful of female bank robbers, <mask>'s legacy has survived, even though her known life of crime only included a single bank robbery.As soon as it was originally reported that one of the members of the gang was a woman, area headlines called her the "Second Belle Starr" and proclaimed "Female Bandit Rivals the Daring Deeds of Belle Starr and Kate Bender." Further enhancing this legacy is the only known photo of <mask>, which shows her dressed in the men's clothing she wore during the robbery and holding her rifle alongside co-conspirators Tennison and Sheets. In addition, <mask> had previously bragged about being a member of the Dalton Gang. Although this would seem unlikely since she would have been only 15 at the time that infamous gang was obliterated, a Colt .45 revolver with the name "Bob Dalton" etched on the handle and seven notches carved near the trigger guard was found in her father's home after her arrest. This seemed to substantiate her claims that she had been with the Dalton Gang in earlier years and that she had Bob Dalton's six-shooter. The notches were presumed to represent the number of men killed with the Colt. References

1877 births
American bank robbers
American outlaws
People from Columbus, Ohio
Outlaws of the American Old West
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People from McDonald County, Missouri

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<mask> () (16 December 177628 August 1827) was the father of composer and pianist <mask>. Family background
As the second child of <mask> and Katharina (née Baumann)  he was born in Nemesvölgy (today Edelstal, Austria), a village close to the Austrian border in the Kingdom of Hungary. His family was of Danube Swabian German descent. There are Germanic, Slavic and Magyar claims of the Liszt family. They lived in Márcz, Nagymarton and also Malacka, Kingdom of Hungary (today Marz, Mattersburg in Austria and Malacky in Slovakia). Georg was in service for the Hungarian Nikolaus II, Prince Esterházy and both he and his son, <mask>, were Hungarian citizens. The family lived mostly in the German-speaking parts of Hungary, which is why they had only rudimentary knowledge of Hungarian.Franz tried to learn the common tongue of his kingdom in the 1870s, but in spite of his great language skills he couldn't reach a fluent level. In his youth, <mask> changed his surname "List" to the spelling "Liszt", according to Hungarian pronunciation. In his lifetime, Latin, not Hungarian, was the administrative language of the multi-ethnic Kingdom of Hungary, hence the recorded Latinised name "<mask>us". After the great success of his son Franz, the father Georg also started to use the surname Liszt in the 1820s. Other family members also adapted this form, e.g. <mask>'s brother, Eduard, father of Franz von Liszt. Youth with musical career
As a teenager, Liszt played cello in the House of Eszterházy summer orchestra under the direction of Joseph Haydn.He was also an amateur pianist, and played the organ and violin and sang in a choir. His brother Eduard and one sister Barbara also showed great musical talents, as did their father Georg, who worked as an organist and played the piano and violin, but they had few resources for musical education other than within the family. After graduating from the Archigymnasium Regium Posoniense (today Gamča, Slovakia), in Pressburg (Pozsony, today's Bratislava), Liszt entered the Franciscan Order, but two years later, by his petition in 1797, was released from the order. He still kept a close relationship with the order, which probably gave him the inspiration to name his son Franz. Adult work life
An attempt by Liszt to continue as a student of philosophy at the University of Pozsony ended in the first year due to financial reasons. He had to look for a job, and in 1798 became a clerk at the Esterházy estate in Fraknóváralja (today Forchtenstein, Austria). After two years, Liszt was transferred to Kapuvár where he was missing the musical atmosphere at Kismarton (today Eisenstadt, Austria).He started to compose music and dedicate it to the Prince in order to be transferred back to the Western part of Sopron County. Only in 1805 did he finally succeed in getting a job at the court in Kismarton. The years in Kismarton were his happy years. In his spare time, he played cello in the orchestra led by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, the successor of Haydn, and had the opportunity to work with many musicians who came to Kismarton to perform, including Cherubini and Beethoven. This happy time ended when <mask> was transferred to the Esterházy estate of Doborján (today Raiding, Austria) in 1809, as an overseer of the herd of about 50,000 sheep (Rentmeister der Fürstlich Esterházyschen Schäferei). Doborján, only 30 miles from Kismarton, was a rather provincial place. Marriage
While visiting his father in Nagymarton (today Mattersburg, Austria) in the summer of 1810, <mask> met Anna Lager who had recently moved from Vienna to Nagymarton.Their marriage took place in the parish of Lók (today Unterfrauenhaid, Austria) on 11 January 1811. The only child of the couple, <mask>, was born on 22 October 1811. <mask>'s father Georg wrote to prince Esterházy in 1812 that <mask> had 3 more children, but there is no other documentation about this, and it seems unlikely. Raising Franz Liszt
At his house in Doborján, Liszt staged chamber concerts. When Franz was 5 and his musical genius revealed itself, when following his father's musical work, Liszt started to teach him music. When his fame grew, sponsors could finance private education in Vienna for the young Franz. Franz's father stayed close to his son throughout his travels to Vienna and Paris, where they settled in 1823.The purpose was to let Franz study at the famous Conservatoire de Paris, but Cherubini told them that foreigners weren't admitted. (Long after this piece of unintentional satire, Liszt would always scorn the conservatoires and their products). So Liszt continued to teach his son, with a rigid schedule of practising Bach and other composers on the piano, with transposition of fugues and other daily technique improving exercises. After resigning from the Esterhazys' service Liszt spent most of his time as the manager of his son's career, with tours in many European countries. Franz found his father's supervision quite demanding. (He may also have become the main breadwinner through giving lessons and concerts). Liszt was a skilful business manager.It is possible that the father wanted the opportunities for his son that service with the Esterhazys had blocked for him. Liszt secured him lessons with Paer (composition), Salieri (singing) and, mainly, Czerny (piano). Liszt had known Czerny and Beethoven from his own musical days. Through Czerny Liszt secured his son a meeting with Beethoven and Czerny seems to have persuaded his master to go to a concert where the young man was playing. Franz was devastated by his father's death and withdrew to a monastery for a time. His mother, Anna Lager came to look after him in Paris where she remained until her death in the 1860s. He soon became an established performer and teacher who was able to introduce Chopin to the musical world on his arrival in Paris in 1830.The elder <mask> was the main influence on Franz in his early years, as both teacher and manager. Franz's full musical maturity was reached after his father died, when he heard the works of such composers as Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumacher. The big influence on his performing style after his father's death came from his meetings with the forty-year-old Paganini. Though he always honoured the memory of <mask>, who had been accused by the French gutter press of exploiting the child prodigy, he never visited his grave at Boulogne-sur-Mer. The last time
Liszt died in 1827 in Boulogne-sur-Mer at the age of 50 when Franz was 15 years old. The two were staying at a retreat centre for Franz to rest after a physician's order; however, the father became fatally ill with typhoid fever, died, and was buried there. Franz composed a funeral piece for his father's funeral service.References

External links
 Complete genealogy of the Liszt family (flawed and plagiarized from the literature): pfarre-paudorf.com
Michael Lorenz: "An Unknown Grandmother of Liszt", Vienna 2012. Notes On the genealogy of Franz Liszt (based on the flawed secondary literature used in Professor Walker's biography of Liszt cited as reference 4 below): part 1 part 2
 Franz Liszt Timeline

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<mask> (Chinese: 王霏霏; born April 27, 1987),  also known professionally as Fei, is a Chinese singer and actress. She was a member of the South Korean girl group miss A from the group's debut in 2010 until its disbandment in 2017. She debuted as a solo artist in 2016 in Korea with the mini album "Fantasy". After departing Korea in 2018, Fei has since pursued her solo career in China. In the second half of 2021, Fei released her much-anticipated Chinese album "Fearless 不霏" which includes three singles and is produced independently by Wang Feifei Studio with Fei as the Executive Producer. Early life
Fei was born <mask> on April 27, 1987 in Haikou, Hainan, China. She displayed a talent for dancing at an early age and went to study dance at a school in Guangzhou, where JYP Entertainment recruited her in 2007.She later attended Seoul Institute of the Arts, alongside miss A member Jia. Prior to debuting in South Korea, Fei appeared in a dance audition show at Zhejiang TV in 2009 and became a member of the project group, Sisters, the Chinese version of the Wonder Girls. Sisters, however, was soon canceled due to member changes within the company. Career

2010–2017: miss A

In March 2010, Fei, with fellow members Jia and Suzy, formed the group miss A. The trio began promoting in China by releasing the song "Love Again" for Samsung Electronics' Samsung Beat Festival. The group was later joined by a fourth member, Min. The four-member girl group made their debut in South Korea in July 2010, under the management of JYP Entertainment, with the hit single "Bad Girl Good Girl."Over the next several years, the group released a series of successful albums and singles, including "I Don't Need a Man," "Hush," “Touch,” “Only You,” and “Good-bye Baby” etc. In addition to music, <mask> made her acting debut with cameo appearances in the KBS drama Dream High in 2011 and its sequel in 2012. In 2013, she appeared on the South Korean variety shows, MasterChef Korea Celebrity and Dancing with the Stars 3, in which she won second place and first place, respectively. She appeared on the Chinese reality show, If You Love, in 2014. That same year, she made a cameo appearance in the SBS drama Temptation, and contributed the song, "One Summer Night," featuring 2AM member Jo Kwon, to the soundtrack. In 2015, Fei was confirmed to star in the web drama Swan, alongside Nam Gyu-ri and Cho Min Sung. She was also confirmed to star in the Chinese movie, Select Game.. For miss A's mini album 'Colors' (Chinese version), Fei made an attempt to write lyrics for the songs "I Caught Ya" and "Stuck".After the departure of Jia in May 2016 and Min in November 2017, miss A disbanded in December 2017. In 2017, Billboard ranked miss A at number ten on their "Top 10 K-pop Girl Groups of the Past Decade" list. 2016–2017: Solo Career Debut
Fei made her solo singing debut in Korea on July 21, 2016, with the digital single "Fantasy". The title track “괜찮아 괜찮아 Fantasy” was ranked #14 on the 20 best K-pop songs of 2016 by Billboard magazine critics. Other tracks in the album include “Sweet Sexy Fei” and “One More Kiss”. 2018–present: Rising Popularity in China
On September 17, 2018, Fei collaborated with Gen Neo in the single "Will You Won't You". It was the first time Fei was involved in production works as a composer, lyricist, and singer.On December 8, 2018, Fei released another single, “Hello”, which features GOT7’s Jackson Wang. In the following January, <mask> confirmed that she had parted ways with JYP Entertainment in late 2018 after her contract expired. In January 2019, <mask> joined Youku's idol group survival show, All for One, as the dance coach and one of the judges. Her expertise, candidness and strict coaching style generated much buzz on China's social platforms Weibo and Bilibili. In June 2020, Fei joined the female celebrity idol group reality show Sisters Who Make Waves, which was themed around women's empowerment and self-actualization. It featured 30 female celebrities over 30 years old who must compete to debut in a seven-member girl group. The show became the most viewed and talked entertainment show in China in 2020, and Fei was one of the top contenders.Even though in the end, she didn't debut in the project girl group, in Weibo’s 2020 Entertainment White Paper, Fei was ranked no.1 among the 30 celebrity participants in soaring popularity. Following the success, Fei went on to join another popular variety show, I Am The Actor season 3, in December 2020. With the coach of Zhang Ziyi, Fei eventually made it into the final and won the award of "Bright Star". On August 12, 2021, Fei released "Stalker 窥探者", the title track of her much-anticipated Chinese album "Fearless 不霏", which is produced independently by Wang Feifei Studio with Fei as the Executive Producer. "Stalker" is a song that empowers women to fight against manipulation and gaslighting. After its release, the song's MV surpassed 12 million views on Weibo in less than 12 hours, and received many accolades and rave reviews. "Stalker" was ranked no.1 on the weekly Rising Popularity chart (2021.08.09 - 2021.08.15) at QQ Music, China's largest music streaming platform.On October 25, 2021, "Hunting Adonis 狩猎阿多尼斯", the 2nd single of the album, was released. Inspired by Shakespeare's poem portraying the unorthodox love story between Venus and Adonis, this song encourages people, especially women, to pursue their love and passion. In this music piece, Adonis symbolizes remarkable beauty, love and the moment of revival and awakening. On December 2, 2021, the rollout of the 3rd and final single, “Freaky Cinderella 疯狂灰姑娘”, marked the full release of the album. The song’s catchy tune and novel lyrics metaphorically depict a wonderland for the unusual and the unconventional and explicitly express Fei’s idea of breaking norms and traditions in search of freedom and self-realization. On December 20, 2021, Fei delighted her fans amid the holiday season with the release of “At Christmas”, a cozy and romantic Christmas duet co-created with Chinese singer-songwriter Ryan. B.Along with the music release and stage presence, Fei continues to diversify her career opportunities and shift more focus to acting. In September 2021, she finished filming the web series My Marvelous Fable, in which she plays the lead actress role. The series is set to be released in 2022. Over the past few years, Fei has gained millions of fans on major Chinese social platforms - Weibo, Red, Douyin and Bilibili, and earned an influencer and trendsetter reputation (人间种草机) by discovering and sharing beauty and lifestyle tips in her vlog series. According to CBNData, Fei topped the Celebrity Influence in Beauty ranking in the first two quarters of 2021 consecutively. Her credibility and positive image have brought her collaborations with brands across multiple categories including beauty, clothing, footwear, and food & beverage. In 2020 and 2021, she has been the brand ambassador for Bebe, OUAI, Sephora Collection Makeup,Skechers, Rituals, L'Oréal Paris hair color, Sisley Paris Sisleÿa in China.As of January 2022, Fei is the ambassador of Michael Kors for Greater China, LAN FONG YUEN for China, and Dr.Ci:Labo for the Asia Pacific region. Through collaborations with luxury fashion houses like Louis Vuitton, Celine and Fendi and avant-garde designers like Creepyyeha, Fei has forged her own unwaveringly unique sense of style - sharp, daring and uncompromising, yet also fluid and evolving with a new discovery at every turn. Her stellar performance with Balmain was one of the brand's most liked celebrity portrayals worldwide in 2021 and was featured in its year end highlights. On September 26, 2021, Fei made her e-commerce livestreamer debut as the Chief Fashionista (首席时髦精) at Alibaba-backed Tmall Celebrity Pick (天猫星选), an influential e-commerce digital platform where a select group of respected celebrities hosts livestream sessions in collaboration with brands and products that fit with each celebrity's profile and speciality. “Fei’s Fashion”(霏常时髦) is Tmall’s tailored program that characterizes and encapsulates Fei's livestream content. Her debut livestream featured a well-curated list of products in fashion, accessories, beauty and food & beverage, and attracted close to 3 million viewers and brought about 74 million views to the hashtag Tmall Celebrity Pick on Weibo. Discography

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Miss A members
JYP Entertainment artists
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Chinese women singers
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Chinese idols
Chinese K-pop singers
Chinese television actresses
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<mask> (née Jarvis; July 26, 1896 – November 17, 1932), was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and jazz and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s. Preer was known within the black community as "The First Lady of the Screen." She was the first black actress to earn celebrity and popularity. She appeared in ground-breaking films and stage productions, such as the first play by a black playwright to be produced on Broadway, and the first New York-style production with a black cast in California in 1928, in a revival of a play adapted from Somerset Maugham's Rain. Early life
<mask> was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 26, 1896. After her father, Frank, died prematurely, she moved with her mother, Blanche, and her three other siblings to Chicago, Illinois. She completed grammar school and high school in Chicago.Her early experiences in Vaudeville and "street preaching" with her mother are what jump-started her acting career. Career in cinema
At the age of 23, Preer's first film role was in Oscar Micheaux's 1919 debut film The Homesteader, in which she played Orlean. Preer was promoted by Micheaux as his leading actress with a steady tour of personal appearances and a publicity campaign, she was one of the first African American women to become a star to the black community. She also acted in Micheaux's Within Our Gates (1920), in which she plays Sylvia Landry, a teacher who needs to raise money to save her school. She continued her career by starring in 19 films. Micheaux developed many of his subsequent films to showcase Preer's versatility. These included The Brute (1920), The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921), Deceit (1923), Birthright (1924), The Devil’s Disciple (1926), The Conjure Woman (1926) and The Spider's Web (1926).Preer had her talkie debut in the race musical Georgia Rose (1930). In 1931, she performed with Sylvia Sidney in the film Ladies of the Big House. Her final film performance was as Lola, a prostitute, in Josef von Sternberg's 1932 film Blonde Venus, with Cary Grant and Marlene Dietrich. Preer was lauded by both the black and white press for her ability to continually succeed in ever more challenging roles, "...her roles ran the gamut from villain to heroine an attribute that many black actresses who worked in Hollywood cinema history did not have the privilege or luxury to enjoy." Only her film by Micheaux and three shorts survive. She was known for refusing to play roles that she believed demeaned African Americans. Career in theatre
In 1920, Preer joined The Lafayette Players a theatrical stock company in Chicago that was founded in 1915 by Anita Bush, a pioneering stage and film actress known as “The Little Mother of Black Drama".Bush and her troupe toured the US to bring legitimate theatre to black audiences at a time when theatres were racially segregated by law in the South, and often by custom in the North and the interest of vaudeville was fading. The Lafayette Players brought drama to black audiences, which caused it to flourish until its end during the Great Depression. By the mid-1920s, Preer began garnering attention from the white press, and she began to appear in crossover films and stage parts. In 1923, she acted in the Ethiopian Art Theatre's production of The Chip Woman's Fortune by Willis Richardson. This was the first dramatic play by an African-American playwright to be produced on Broadway, and it lasted two weeks. In 1926, Preer appeared on Broadway in David Belasco’s production of Lulu Belle. Preer supported and understudied Lenore Ulric in the leading role of Edward Sheldon's drama of a Harlem prostitute.She garnered acclaim in Sadie Thompson in a West Coast revival of Somerset Maugham’s play about a fallen woman. She rejoined the Lafayette Players for that production in their first show in Los Angeles at the Lincoln Center. Under the leadership of Robert Levy, Preer and her colleagues performed in the first New York-style play featuring black players to be produced in California. That year, she also appeared in Rain, a play adapted from Maugham's short story by the same name. Preer also sang in cabaret and musical theater where she was occasionally backed by such diverse musicians as Duke Ellington and Red Nichols early in their careers. Preer was regarded by many as the greatest actress of her time. Marriage and family
Preer married <mask> on January 16, 1915, in Chicago.She met her second husband, Edward Thompson, when they were both acting with the Lafayette Players in Chicago. They married February 4, 1924, in Williamson County, Tennessee, Tennessee. Some sources indicate Preer was married to Lawrence Chenault. In April 1932, Preer gave birth to her only child, daughter Edeve Thompson. Developing  post-childbirth complications, Preer died of double pneumonia on November 27, 1932, in Los Angeles at the age of 36. Her husband continued as a popular leading man and "heavy" in numerous race films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and died in 1960. Their daughter Edeve Thompson converted to the Catholicism as a teenager.She later entered the Sisters of St. Francis of Oldenburg, Indiana, where she became known as Sister Francesca Thompson, O.S.F., and became an academic, teaching at both Marian University in Indiana and Fordham University in New York City. Filmography

 The Homesteader (1919)
 Within Our Gates (1920)
 The Brute (1920)
 The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921)
 Deceit (1923)
 Birthright (1924)
 The Devil's Disciple (1926)
 The Conjure Woman (1926)
 The Spider's Web (1926)
 The Framing of the Shrew (1928)
 Melancholy Dame (1928)
 Oft in the Silly Night (1928)
 The Lady Fare (1929)
 Brown Gravy (1929)
 The Widow's Bite (1929)
 Georgia Rose (1930)
 The Good Sport (1931) uncredited
 Ladies of the Big House (1931)
 Blonde Venus (1932)

Theater
 Rang Tang (1927)

Further reading
 Bowser, Pearl. Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era, Bloomington, Indiana. : Indiana University Press, 2001, pp. 19–33
 Cripps, Thomas. Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942, New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 324–25.References

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 <mask>- Our First Lady of the Silver Screen

1896 births
1932 deaths
20th-century American actresses
Actresses from Mississippi
African-American actresses
American blues singers
American film actresses
American silent film actresses
American stage actresses
Blackface minstrel performers
Musicians from Vicksburg, Mississippi
Vaudeville performers
Deaths from pneumonia in California
20th-century American singers
20th-century American women singers
20th-century African-American women singers

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<mask> (;  ; April 23, 1997) is a Chinese pair skater. With current partner Jin Yang, she is a two-time Four Continents medalist (silver in 2020, bronze in 2019), two-time Grand Prix Final silver medalist (2018–19, 2019–20), and the 2017 Asian Winter Games silver medalist. <mask> represented China at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympics. With former partner Zhang Hao, she is the 2015 Four Continents silver medalist and competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Career
Early in her career, <mask> competed with Zhang Tianci. Partnership with Zhang Hao

2012–13 season
Her partnership with Zhang Hao was announced in May 2012. The pair made their international debut at the 2012 Cup of China.They placed eleventh at their first World Championships. 2013–14 season
In the 2013–14 season, <mask>/Zhang won their first Grand Prix medals, bronze at the 2013 Cup of China and silver at the 2013 NHK Trophy, and qualified for the Grand Prix Final, where they came in fourth. They were selected for the 2014 Winter Olympics and finished eighth in Sochi. Ending their season, they placed fifth at the 2014 World Championships in Saitama. 2014–15 season
For the 2014–15 Grand Prix season, <mask>/Zhang were assigned to Skate America and Cup of China, where they placed third and first, respectively, qualifying for the 2015 Grand Prix Final. They finished fourth at that competition after placing fifth in the short program and third in the free skate. They won the silver medal at the 2015 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.At the 2015 World Figure Skating Championships, they earned personal best scores in the free skate and combined total to finish in fourth place overall. 2015–16 season
<mask>/Zhang's final season together began at the 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard, where they placed fourth in the short program, before the remainder of the event was cancelled as a result of the terrorist attacks in Paris. They won the bronze medal at the 2015 Rostelecom Cup, qualifying for the Grand Prix Final, which had been expanded as a result of the Paris incident. They finished sixth there. In their final event together, the 2016 World Championships, they performed poorly, placing twelfth in the short program and ninth in the free skate, for twelfth place overall. Partnership with Jin Yang

2016–17 season
On April 14, 2016, International Figure Skating magazine broke the news of <mask>'s new partnership with Jin Yang. The Chinese Skating Association decided to switch partners between the two pairs of <mask>/Zhang and Yu/Jin.<mask>/Jin debuted on the Grand Prix with two silver medals at the 2016 Cup of China and the 2016 NHK Trophy, earning a place in the Grand Prix Final, where they finished sixth. At the 2017 Chinese Championships, they won their first national title. Competing at the 2017 Four Continents Championships, their first ISU Championship event, they placed fifth. At the 2017 Asian Winter Games, <mask>/Jin won the silver medal behind Yu/Zhang. This concluded their season. 2017–18 season
The two won the 2017 CS Finlandia Trophy, their first international gold medal together. The Grand Prix was a disappointment, with <mask>/Jin finishing fifth at both the 2017 Skate America and 2017 Internationaux de France.At the 2018 Chinese Championships, they finished second behind Yu/Zhang, and were named to China's team for the 2018 Winter Olympics. <mask>/Jin competed in the pairs event in Pyeongchang, finishing seventeenth in the short program and thus missing the free skate by a single ordinal. Their season concluded at the 2018 World Championships, where they finished ninth. 2018–19 season
With both Sui Wenjing / Han Cong and Yu/Zhang sidelined by injury at the beginning of the season, <mask>/Jin were the sole Chinese pair team competing internationally on the senior level. They began with a gold medal at the 2018 CS Asian Open. On the Grand Prix, <mask>/Jin began at the 2018 Skate Canada International, where they won the silver medal, finishing ahead of bronze medalists Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro by 0.15 points. The two struggled on their side-by-side jumps in the free skate, where they finished fourth, an area where Jin said they hoped to improve.At the 2018 NHK Trophy, they won a second silver medal, by a far more decisive margin. They qualified to the Grand Prix Final, with <mask> noting that "we feel like we miss our teammates, but advancing to the Grand Prix Final is something we are proud of." At the Final they placed first in the short program and second in the free skate, winning silver overall. This was the team's first major international medal. At the 2019 Chinese Championships, they won their second national title. At the 2019 Four Continents Championships in Anaheim, they placed third in the short program behind Moore-Towers/Marinaro and a returning Sui/Han, in consequence of Peng falling on their throw jump. They came third in the free skate as well, making an error on the side-by-side triple Salchow jumps, finishing third overall, their first ISU Championship medal.Peng commented that "despite the success rate of the triple jump in the training, we want to try that and challenge ourselves, and show what we have done in our training." Concluding the season at the 2019 World Championships, <mask>/Jin placed third in the short program, earning a small bronze medal. They came fifth in the free skate due to Peng underrotating her triple Salchow attempt, and finished fourth overall, off the podium by 1.97 points. Reflecting on the season, Jin observed: " We are satisfied with overall performances. We could pull out what we can. Of course, for some details, there are some areas to improve. The biggest accomplishment this season is to get our names out so that judges recognize us.For next season, we continue to improve our performance." 2019–20 season
<mask>/Jin debuted at the 2019 CS U.S. Classic, taking the bronze medal. They then won the 2019 Shanghai Trophy. On the Grand Prix series, <mask>/Jin first competed at 2019 Skate America, placing first in the short program despite <mask> stepping out on and underrotating her side-by-side jump. They placed first in the free skate as well, despite a fall on a throw triple loop, taking their first Grand Prix gold medal together. They did not skate in the gala due to the throw jump fall impacting <mask>'s ankle. At their second event, the 2019 Cup of China, <mask>/Jin placed narrowly third in the short program after Peng fell on a jump and they had unison issues with their spins.They rose to second place and the silver medal in the free skate. Qualifying to the Grand Prix Final, <mask>/Jin lost their skates on the way there, and were consequently unable to practice for five days, though they were ultimately returned the day before the competition began. They were fifth in the short program following <mask> putting her foot down on their throw triple loop. Jin said that <mask>'s ankle injury from Skate America was "quite stubborn and not becoming better", impacting their training. They skated cleanly in the free skate, narrowly placing first in that segment, and rose to second place overall, winning their second consecutive Final silver medal. <mask>/Jin skated cleanly to place second in the short program at the 2020 Four Continents Championships in Seoul. Jin said they were quite satisfied with their performance, while <mask> revealed that sickness and a leg injury had impacted their training after the Grand Prix Final.Second in the free skate as well with only a stepout on a throw triple loop, they won the silver medal behind Sui/Han. They were assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, but these were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. 2020–21 season
With the pandemic continuing to affect international travel, the ISU assigned the Grand Prix based largely on geography, with <mask>/Jin being assigned to the 2020 Cup of China. Following withdrawals from some other Chinese teams, including Sui/Han, <mask>/Jin won the gold medal by almost 50 points out of three teams attending. In March at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, <mask> fell at the beginning of the short program, breaking one of the zippers on her dress, but continued the performance and put her hand down on her underrotated jump attempt. They placed fifth in that segment. <mask> made errors on both jumps in the free skate as well, and they placed sixth in that segment, but remained in fifth place overall.2021–22 season
<mask>/Jin's first Grand Prix assignment was initially the 2021 Cup of China, but following its cancellation they were reassigned to the 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia. Making their season debut, they placed second in both segments to take the silver medal behind Sui/Han. The Chinese federation opted to withdraw them from their second event, the 2021 Internationaux de France, as a result of which they could not qualify for the Grand Prix Final. Assigned to the Chinese Olympic team, <mask>/Jin began the 2022 Winter Olympics as their country's entry in the pairs free skate segment of the Olympic team event. They were third in the segment despite <mask> making multiple jump errors and their final lift exiting early, while the Chinese team finished in fifth place. In the pairs event, <mask>/Jin were fifth in the short program. In the free skate, <mask> underrotated and stepped out of her triple Salchow attempt, but they placed sixth in the segment and remained in fifth overall.Jin said that they had been under "great pressure because we had the disappointing score" at the previous Olympics and failed to qualify for the free skate, but that they were pleased to have performed well in Beijing. Programs

With Jin

With Zhang

Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series

With Jin

With Zhang

Detailed results

With Jin

With Zhang

References

External links

1997 births
Living people
Figure skaters from Harbin
Chinese female pair skaters
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships medalists
Figure skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters of China
Figure skaters at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
Medalists at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
Asian Games silver medalists for China
Asian Games medalists in figure skating

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Peng Cheng
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<mask> (November 20, 1906 – April 30, 1998) was an American artist known primarily for his oil painting who lived most of his life in the Puget Sound region of the United States. His work is in the collections of numerous museums including the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has been called "Perhaps the most powerful artist to emerge from the Northwest School". <mask>'s mature work often draws from a set of symbols (circle, spiral, egg, seed, wave) he developed from the study of religious, mythical, and philosophical sources. The symbols are frequently combined with the human figure. Beginning in the 1960’s he painted on brown roofing paper that came in long rolls and permitted him to paint on a grand scale. <mask> said: "I read the Vedanta and the Vedas and I think about the order of the universe.The more we send men out into space, the more I realize we already are in space, floating out there. The whole order is preordained, in some miraculous way. I think all creation is magical." Early life
<mask> grew up in a semi-rural setting north of Seattle, in the town of Edmonds, Washington, where he'd been born on November 20, 1906. Some of his early paintings portrayed his family home. A piano was an important presence in his house. His father, <mask>, was a carpenter-builder and also a musician.From an early age <mask> was intrigued by other cultures; he was particularly fascinated by the woodcarvings of Northern Coastal native tribes, and by the collection of Japanese prints owned by his piano teacher. As soon as he was old enough to do so on his own, he began commuting to the Seattle Public Library by bus to study art books. After graduating from Edmonds High School, <mask> briefly studied with Alaskan scenic painter Eustace Ziegler, who encouraged <mask>'s career-long preference for oil paints, and taught him how to draw nude figures, which would become important features of his work. In 1929, <mask> applied for and won a Tiffany Foundation scholarship and spent the summer studying at the Tiffany estate on Long Island, New York. As there were no art museums in Seattle at that time, he delighted in weekend visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, examining the works of Rembrandt, Goya, Whistler, and many others. Career

On his return to Washington in the fall of 1929, <mask> set up a studio in an outbuilding on his parents' property, and had paintings included in a group show at the Fifth Avenue Gallery in downtown Seattle. The show piqued the interest of 19-year-old painter Morris Graves, who lived near <mask>, and the two became lifelong friends.In 1934 they traveled together to California in a beat-up panel truck, attempting to sell their paintings along the way. They also spent time painting near Monte Cristo in the North Cascade mountains. With the opening of the Seattle Art Museum in 1933, <mask> befriended its founder, Dr. Richard Eugene Fuller, and worked there for several years, off-and-on, as an installer and children's art teacher. His lifelong interest in Asian art and culture was deepened by both close exposure to the museum's major collection of Asian art and artefacts, and by socializing and sometimes painting with members of Seattle's vibrant Asian arts community. In the Northwest Annual Exhibition of 1935 he won the Katherine Baker Purchase Award, and the museum mounted a solo exhibition of his work the following year. In 1937, <mask> helped refurbish a burned-out house Morris Graves had discovered near the small town of La Conner, Washington, in the Skagit Valley, about sixty miles north of Seattle. The two decorated the earthen-floored studio with furniture made of driftwood and raw cedar logs.Like many artists during the Great Depression, <mask> worked for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Hired by the program's Washington director, R. Bruce Inverarity, he taught at the Spokane Art Center in 1939-40, alongside painters Carl Morris and Clyfford Still,  sculptor Hilda Deutsch, and muralist Ruth Egri. The center was widely praised as being among the most popular and productive of the more than 100 community art centers opened nationwide by the FAP. Throughout the 1940s and 50s <mask> was very much involved in Seattle's bustling art community. Morris Graves and Mark Tobey had become artists of international reputation; Tobey's studio and the home of painters Margaret and Kenneth Callahan become centers of lively socializing and philosophical debate. Otto Seligman and Zoe Dusanne were championing abstract art at their respective galleries, while SAM, the Henry Art Gallery, and the Frye Art Museum cautiously supported it. <mask> taught at the Helen Bush School in Seattle and Ruth Pennington's Fidalgo Art School in La Conner, while working at SAM, building stone mosaic patios for well-to-do patrons, and producing driftwood art for the commercial market.He lived in Seattle's University District, but spent much of his time painting at Graves' studio in La Conner or at the Callahans' summer place in Granite Falls, Washington. After a very successful show at SAM in 1945, he purchased his own cabin in Granite Falls. In September 1953 he became nationally known when Life magazine ran a major feature presenting <mask>, Tobey, Graves, and Kenneth Callahan as the "big four" of Northwest mystic art. In 1959 <mask> left Seattle for good. He rented a house on the edge of La Conner, where he found inspiration from the vast skies and natural settings of the surrounding area. He gathered rocks and driftwood, which he composed around his rustic home in various assemblages. For a time, he rented a studio on the main street of La Conner.Later, he bought property at 415 Caledonia Street, building a house and studio there. He began painting large works on roofing paper purchased from a local lumber company. Working with large sheets of paper on the floor in the studio above his living room, <mask> used thinned oil paint and large brushes. The scale of the format enabled his brushstrokes to become expansive and expressive, while its texture gave unexpected complexities which he valued. Over the years his art ranged from densely worked and tightly composed figurative images of Northwest landscapes to large, sweeping brushstrokes with flowing, symbolic and iconographic forms. <mask> always preferred a limited palette of mostly muted earthy tones, sometimes accented with brilliant red. The male nude—often placed horizontally—figures prominently in many of his paintings.His works are often inspired by, and titled after, Greek mythology and Native American iconography. In 1966 <mask> traveled to Europe for the first time with friends and fellow artists Clayton and Barbara James. In 1975 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, which, among other things, allowed him to visit major museums in Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C., and travel extensively in Mexico. In 1982 he visited Osaka, Japan for an exhibition featuring his work. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Seattle Center in 1995, and many who knew him personally considered him a "living treasure." <mask> was a complex, affable, and generous man with a wide-ranging mind and a devious sense of humor. His paintings can be read in many ways, but he cherished the premise of the human figure—a prominent feature in many of his works—as being symbolic of the journey of life.Final years
<mask> never quite achieved the international stature of his friends Tobey and Graves. This was partly due to bad luck - such as a newspaper strike leaving his first solo exhibition in New York (at the Smolin Gallery in 1962) unreviewed - but he turned down other important exhibition opportunities, including one at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, simply because he felt he didn't have enough material of sufficient quality ready. He remained a pre-eminent artist with strong sales and major commissioned projects in the Pacific Northwest. His expressions of northwest atmospheres with their mythological allusions are distinctive, even as they evoke the coastal Skagit River country where he lived. In the 1980s, with his health declining, <mask> arranged to be cared for as an elder, and he became increasingly dependent on a younger companion, Deryl Walls. Walls eventually became executor of his estate, and made the controversial decision to end <mask>'s long association with Francine Seders, who had been his agent since 1966. <mask> continued living in the house he had built on Caledonia Street, where he received visitors and continued painting into his late eighties.Walls eventually moved <mask> into his own home on Maple Street in La Conner, where <mask> was cared for while surrounded by his paintings. Walls hosted birthday parties for <mask> which were well attended by collectors, fellow artists, and admirers. He remained lucid and enjoyed visitors at La Conner until shortly before he died on April 30, 1998, aged 91 years. Legacy
<mask>'s work has been included in exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, the Bellevue Arts Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, Washington, and the National Museum of Art in Osaka Japan. In 2014, several of his works were included in Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: the Mythic and the Mystical, a major exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum. References

Bibliography
 Conkelton, Sheryl, What It Meant to be Modern:  Seattle Art at Mid-Century, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle 1999
 Conkelton, Sheryl, and Landau, Laura, Northwest Mythologies:  The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and <mask>, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA;    University of Washington Press, Seattle and London 2003
 Kingsbury, Martha, Art of the Thirties:  The Pacific Northwest, University of Washington Press for Henry Art Gallery, Seattle and London 1972
 Wehr, Wesley,    " The Accidental Collector " University of Washington Press
 Wehr, Wesley,    "The Eighth Lively Art " University of Washington Press

External links
 <mask> collection of the Tacoma Art Museum. Over 25 of <mask>'s works ranging from the 1950s to the 1980s.<mask> collection of Henry Art Gallery. Over 25 works ranging from 1940 to the late 1970s. <mask> collection of the Portland Art Museum. Contains about a dozen works. University of Washington Digital Collections. Includes photographs of <mask> in his studio. 1983 interview of <mask>.Conducted for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project. Pacific Northwest artists
Artists from Seattle
Painters from Washington (state)
Modern artists
20th-century American painters
American male painters
1906 births
1998 deaths
Federal Art Project artists
Cornish College of the Arts faculty
People from Edmonds, Washington
Northwest School (art)
People from La Conner, Washington

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