Ezra Augustus Winter (1886-1949) was an American muralist. Winter was born in Traverse City, Michigan, trained at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1908, and the American Academy in Rome in 1914. Winter became extremely successful and commanded high prices for his work. In 1924 he taught at the Grand Central School of Art. Ezra Winter fell while painting one of his murals stepped back a step, forgeting the extreme hight at which he was at. He suffered from a broken and compacted tailbone.

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  • Ezra Augustus Winter (1886-1949) was an American muralist. Winter was born in Traverse City, Michigan, trained at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1908, and the American Academy in Rome in 1914. Winter became extremely successful and commanded high prices for his work. In 1924 he taught at the Grand Central School of Art. Ezra Winter fell while painting one of his murals stepped back a step, forgeting the extreme hight at which he was at. He suffered from a broken and compacted tailbone. After this Ezra Winter was in excruciating pain, and was unable to paint because he of an unsteady hand because of the accident. Winter killed himself in 1949 with a shotgun near his Connecticut studio at the age of 63. His work includes: Fountain of Youth mural at the Radio City Music Hall in Rockefeller Center the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park in Vincennes, Indiana a spectacular six-story banking hall mural for the Guardian Building, and work for the Buhl Building, both in Detroit and both for architect Wirt C. Rowland Canterbury Tales Mural, Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.
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  • Ezra Winter's Canterbury Tales mural (1939), Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.
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  • Ezra Augustus Winter (1886-1949) was an American muralist. Winter was born in Traverse City, Michigan, trained at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1908, and the American Academy in Rome in 1914. Winter became extremely successful and commanded high prices for his work. In 1924 he taught at the Grand Central School of Art. Ezra Winter fell while painting one of his murals stepped back a step, forgeting the extreme hight at which he was at. He suffered from a broken and compacted tailbone.
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  • Ezra Winter
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