Oliver Dennett Grover

Showing great promise he was enrolled at Munich’s Royal Academy in 1879, where he studied under Frank Duveneck.

Grover followed Duveneck to Venice and Florence, and then went on to study in Paris from 1883 to 1885 under Gustave Boulanger, Jean-Paul Laurens and Lefebvre.

[2] The First Yerkes Prize was awarded to Grover in 1892 for his painting "Thy Will Be Done"[1] showing a woman devastated by news she had just received, and which was exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition.

[3] Grover's reputation as a traditional painter and art authority was by this time firmly established in Chicago.

During the last years of his life, he also became a board member of the Association of Arts and Industries which was a major influence in Chicago design in the 1920s and 1930s.