The following, submitted October 2004, is from Steele Ballew, a great great niece of Alexander Beers.
"Please, note that some times he signed his works 'de Beers', because he thought it to be more artistic and, therefore, more marketable.
Alexander Beers lived with his sister, Emma, in Elmhurst, Illinois for many years and worked for the Chicago Civic Opera House painting scenery backdrops. Later he worked for the Ringling Brothers Circus, painting the sideshow banners. Besides t (showing 500 of 901 characters). |
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