 Le repas des cochons signed AW Sparks, 85"x73" Courtesy of Dominique Mayens  A.W.Sparks, Steel Mills, signed lower right AW Sparks, 1915, 36"x48.5" courtesy of Elizabethtown College |
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 Arthur W. Sparks, Woman Sewing in Garden, oil on canvas, 13.75" X 10.5" Courtesy of The Butler Institute Of American Art. |
 Arthur W. Sparks, Quai St. Catherine Martinique, oil on beaver board, 23 1/2 x 28 3/4" Courtesy of READING PUBLIC MUSEUM. |
Sam Rosenberg
This biography from the archives of AskART.com
A landscape and genre painter, he became head of the new Department of Painting and Illustration at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh and earned a reputation according to William Gerdts as "probably Pittsburgh's leading Impressionist artist." He also traveled in the West, and one of his surviving paintings from that period, a Grand Canyon landscape, is titled "Grand View, Ariz Canyon."
He was born in Washington DC, and studied with Howard Helmick and in France for ten years at the Julian Academy and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He was much impressed with the painting of Claude Monet and painted colorful scenes of relaxed figures in dappled, suffused light. He died in Philadelphia in 1919.
