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Parsons (FRANK ALVAH an American)

FRANK ALVAH, an American lecturer on art subjects, born PARSONS, FRANK ALVAH, an at Chesterfield, Mass., in 1868. He was educated at Wesleyan Seminary and afterward studied art in Italy, France, England and Austria. He graduated from the department of Fine Arts at Columbia, in 1905. He was lecturer on art in Columbia and other colleges and was president and director of the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, from 1905 to 1914. He also lectured on interior decoration for women's clubs and other bodies. He carried on yearly a course of lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and conducted summer study classes in Europe yearly. He tion and other subjects relating to art.