Arthur Watson Sparks

After some time at Corcoran the Director, E. F. Andrews, appointed him to the sensitive position of monitor in the "painting from life" (nude) art classes.

In 1898 he won a design competition, along with his collaborator J. Elfreth Watkins, chief of buildings for the United States National Museum, for a proposed "Hall of American Inventions" to be built at the Exposition Universelle (1900).

He remained in Paris for ten years altogether; taking numerous trips to the Mediterranean coast and North Africa.

Very early on, he encountered resistance to his plans for the "painting from life" class, being told that using "a cow, a dog, or a calf" would be more decent, despite the fact that Carnegie himself had no objection to nudes.

He resigned his post in 1919, intending to live at the art colony in New Hope, Pennsylvania; where he would join his old friend, Edward Redfield.