Medicine's Michelangelo: The Life & Art of Frank H. Netter, by Francine Mary Netter

By Francine Mary Netter

Medicine's Michelangelo is a extraordinary and primary significant biography of Frank H. Netter, MD, written through his daughter, Francine Mary Netter. She captures the nature of the guy and tells his lifestyles tale utilizing not just her remembrances but in addition Frank Netter's personal autobiographical notes, own correspondence and personal documents, courses of his paintings and public records, and greater than a hundred interviews with kin, artists, amazing practitioners and scientists. greater than account of his momentous profession, this publication offers a private creation to the guy at the back of the paintings.

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She is wearing a hat, her eyes are downcast, and she has high cheekbones, sagging jowls and a knowing half smile. A certain wisdom or beneficence seems to exude from her face, and she radiates beauty. He also did a portrait in pencil and gave it to the subject, Leon Bankoff, who was a fellow student with Frank in Professor Hunt’s Medicine’s Michelangelo informal art group at CCNY. 59 Everyone who knew Frank knew that he would do something in art, whether fine art, illustration or cartoons. Yet Esther’s admonitions haunted him.

Duncan McFadyen 1825 - 1914 m. ) 1837 - 1895 10 children Nancy Musgrave 1870 - ? Oscar McFadyen 1891 - 1943 Aubrey Duncan McFadyen 1899 - 1954 Katie McFadyen 1897 - 1966 Ralph Aubrey Mills 1920 - 1993 m. Kathryn Mills Lola Hankins Musgrave Mary Lee Musgrave 1874 - ? Fairfield Jack McFadyen 1875 - ? Ella Mariah McFadyen 1902 - 1970 Ralph Mills 1905 - 1985 Mary MacFadyen 1898 - 1960 1923 - 2009 1830 - 1900 1870 - 1932 Bernice (Doodle) McFadyen 1895 - 1965 Cornelia Ann Robbins Catherine Rebecca Musgrave m.

Ella Mariah McFadyen 1902 - 1970 Ralph Mills 1905 - 1985 Mary MacFadyen 1898 - 1960 1923 - 2009 1830 - 1900 1870 - 1932 Bernice (Doodle) McFadyen 1895 - 1965 Cornelia Ann Robbins Catherine Rebecca Musgrave m. 1870 -1933 Oscar Lee McFadyen m. 1905 - 1977 Mary Lucille Mills 1928 - 2009 Cornelia Ann Netter 1933 - 2011 1910 - 2000 1912 - 1950 Frank Henry Netter 1906 - 1991 James Musgrave Netter Frank Netter 1934 - 1993 m. Cornelia Irene Lucille Evelyn (Renie) McFadyen McFadyen Jonathan MacFadyen Netter 1938 - 1945 - Francine Mary Netter 1944 - McFadyen family tree.

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