1. Louis Benton Akin was an American painter and illustrator of the early twentieth century.
11 Facts About Louis Akin
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Louis Akin is best known for his landscapes of the Grand Canyon and his depictions of Hopi cultural life.
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Louis Akin began his early career there as a sign painter.
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Around 1903, Louis Akin relocated to the Hopi Reservation in Northern Arizona.
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Louis Akin lived with the Hopi for a few years and painted many aspects of their daily life.
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Louis Akin's work generated general interest, but some critics had reservations about its overall quality.
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Louis Akin toured the area to paint his famed paintings Hopi and other life-depicting portraits.
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Louis Akin's artwork depicting the life of Indians were admiringly adopted by the Railways advertisement printouts.
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Louis Akin became known for numerous landscapes of the Grand Canyon, but painted the Canadian Rockies and Glacier National Park.
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Louis Akin died before completing the murals, but his studies were exhibited posthumously in New York and Flagstaff.
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Louis Akin died of pneumonia on January 2,1913, in Flagstaff, Arizona.