John Carlin
John Carlin (born May 15 or June 15, 1813 in Philadelphia , † April 23, 1891 in New York City ) was an American draftsman, painter and poet.
Life
John Carlin was born deaf and dumb or lost his hearing in early childhood. His parents could not pay for an education for their children - the younger brother Andrew was also deaf. John Carlin was picked up on the street in 1820 by David G. Seixas, who took care of the schooling of deaf street children. He then attended the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, which emerged from Seixas' privately started auxiliary institution, until 1825, and then had to get by as a sign and house painter. In addition, he studied drawing and portraiture and had at times John Rubens Smith and John Neagle as teachers before he went to London in 1838 to study the antiquities in the British Museum . He then became a student of Paul Delaroche in Paris . During this time he also created illustrations for Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress . In 1841 he returned to America and settled as a miniature painter in New York City. He also published verse in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier under the title The Deaf-Mutes' Lament . He also wrote other poems and various articles, for example on architecture. He was the first deaf poet in his country whose works were published. His children's book The Scratchiest Family came out in 1868.
After miniature painting was supplanted by the advent of portrait photography, Carlin gave up this previously lucrative line of business and concentrated on larger-format work. Some of his paintings from this phase were later exhibited at the International Exhibition of Fine and Applied Arts by Deaf Artists at the Roerich Museum in New York City.
Carlin's paintings were exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts. A portrait of Laurent Clerc by Carlin's hand is in the Gallaudet University collection and an oil painting depicting Clerc hangs in the Kentucky School for the Deaf. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the New York Historical Society also have pictures of Carlin.
In addition to his artistic interests, Carlin also had social interests. He raised money for the construction of St. Ann's Church for the Deaf in New York and for the Gallaudet Home for Aged and Infirm Deaf. He also founded the Manhattan Literary Association of Deaf Mutes. At the opening of Gallaudet University in 1864, whose establishment he had helped to advance, he was one of the opening speakers; later he received his first MA hc from college. In 1881 he was a speaker at the first meeting of the Pennsylvania Society for the Advancement of the Deaf. Although Carlin could not read his lips or speak spoken language, he was very committed to teaching these skills.
John Carlin was on the committee to build a monument for Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet in Hartford, Connecticut . His design for one of the bas-reliefs showed Gallaudet teaching students the finger alphabet.
John Carlin was married from 1843 to a niece of Abraham Lincoln's secretary William Henry Seward , Mary Wayman. According to Christopher Krentz, this was also deaf. The marriage produced five hearing children.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f http://aslisd742.weebly.com/john-carlin.html ( Memento from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.deafpeople.com/history/history_info/carlin.html
- ↑ http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/Search_Grid.aspx?searchtype=MUSEUMS&artist=25199
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Christopher Krentz, A Mighty Change. An Anthology of Deaf American Writing, 1816-1864 , Gallaudet University Press 2000, ISBN 978-1-56368-098-4 , p. 89
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carlin, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American draftsman and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1813 or June 15, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1891 |
| Place of death | New York City |