Fred Wagner

[4] He was awarded the Pennsylvania Academy's fellowship prize in 1914, and in 1922 he won an honorable mention at the international exhibition of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

[6] This school lasted more than twenty-five years, with classes eventually being conducted in the Fuller Building in Philadelphia.

Wagner married Eva Wilmot in 1913, his model for an unknown number of paintings including one titled "Smoking Lady.

[8] In the summers between 1903 and 1913, Wagner lived in Island Heights, New Jersey where James Moore Bryant supported him.

[10] Fred Wagner painted all his life, and although only making a modest living as an artist, his work was entered and accepted into some of the most prestigious art exhibitions of the time.