| Timeline |
| 1873 |
Born 10 January, 1873 |
| 1890 |
Attends Art Student's League under William Merritt Chase |
| 1892 |
Studies "plein air" painting under William Merritt Chase |
| 1895 |
Attends the National Academy of Design |
| 1898 |
Scribner's Magazine sends him to Cuba to cover the Spanish American War |
| 1898 |
Marries one of his models, Miss Maybelle Thompson |
| 1899 |
Illustrates The Lion & The Unicorn by R.H. Davis |
| 1900 |
Illustrates Wanted - A Matchmaker by P.L. Ford |
| 1901 |
Illustrates George W. Cable's The Cavalier , Winston Churchill's The Crisis, Anthony Hope's The Dolly Dialogues, W.D. Howells's Heroines of Fiction, Thomas Nelson Page's The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock, and Frederick Palmer's The Ways of the Service |
| 1902 |
Illustrates Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Charles Major, The Fifth String by John Philip Sousa, Lettre D'Amour by R.H. Davis, The Maid-At-Arms by Robt. W. Chambers, and Wanted - A Chaperon by P.L. Ford |
| 1903 |
Illustrates The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphry Ward, An Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb Riley, The Under Dog by F. Hopkinson Smith, and Under the Rose by Frederic S. Isham |
| 1904 |
Illustrates Hallie Erminie Rives' The Castaway , and Brand Whitlock's Her Infinite Variety |
| 1905 |
Illustrates Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson, and Drawings a portfolio of his own drawings |
| 1905 |
Teaches at the Art Students League, Cooper Union, The New York School of Art and the Chase School |
| 1906 |
Illustrates his own The American Girl and The Christy Girl |
| 1908 |
Moves back to Ohio |
| 1910 |
Illustrates Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake |
| 1911 |
Illustrates The Princess by Tennyson |
| 1915 |
Returns to New York |
| 1915-9 |
Designs many war posters |
| 1917 |
Designs a studio for himself at the Hotel des Artistes |
| 1919 |
Divorces his wife and marries Nancy May Palmer, another model |
| 1934 |
Paints the murals of female nudes at the Café des Artistes in New York |
| 1940 |
Completes The Signing of the Constitution of the United States which now hangs in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. |
| 1952 |
Dies 3 March in his studio apartment at the Hotel des Artistes |
