Timeline

1864

Born February 4 at Laurel Hill Manor near Newark, New Jersey: Louis Michel Eilshemius

1873

First trip to Europe with his parents

1875 - 1881

In school, Dresden, Germany

1882 - 1884

Attends Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y

1884 - 1886

Studies painting at the Arts Students League in New York and privately with Robert L. Minor

1886 - 1887

To Paris where he continues to study at the Academie Julian

1888

His parents buy a brownstone house at 118 East 57th Street, New York which is to be his home until his death

1892

His father dies and he travels for two years in Europe and North Africa

1901

Trip to Samoa and the South Seas

1902 - 1903

Returns and travels in southern United States and again in Europe

1909

His mother dies

1917

First recognition: Marcel Duchamp and other artists champion him as a result of his painting supplication in the "Independents"

1921

He gives up painting

1932 - 1941

Over twenty-five one man exhibitions held on 57th Street with unheard of sales and publicity

1932

Injured on 57th Street and permanently paralyzed

1941

December 17 taken to Bellevue Hospital, New York where he dies on December 29