Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
AUGUSTUS HEATON,
PAINTER, EXPIRES
SuccumbS to Heart Attack at
SibIey Hospital Dur
ing Trip.

Augustus Goodyear Heaton, IS years
old, celebrated artist, who for many
years prior to 1908 made his home at
1913 Seventeenth street, this city, died
early yesterday at Sibley Hospital from
heart disease.
The body, which is at Chambers fu-
neral home, will be taken by his son,
DR.. D. r. Perry Heaton of Chappaqua;
N. Y, to Philadelphia this morning.
Funeral services will be held Monday at
2 O'Clock at the La Fayette-Taylor fu-
neral home, Broad and Diamond streets,
Philadelphia, with interment in the
family vault at Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Painting Hangs In Capitol.
Mr.. Heaton, who won international
recognition as a painter, achieved the
distinction of having one of his paint
ings purchased by the Government in
1888. This large canvas, known as
The Recall Of Columbus" is now hang
ing in the Senate wing of the Capitol
Building, gallery floor, facing the paint
ing of THE Battle of Lake Erie
Another Of Mr.. Heaton's paintings,
containing 10 figures, Promoters OF the
Library Of Congress" is in the local
Young Mems Christian Association on
the wall of the marble stairway.
Mr.. Heaton was en- route from his
Summer home at Black Mountain, near
Asheville, N. c., on Northern trip
when he was taken Ill. He was visiting
at the home Of his secretary. Mrs. John
S. Moran, 1921 Thirty-sixth street.
Mount Rainier, Md, when he became
SO Ill that he was taken to Sibley Hos
pital. The end came suddenly from
heart failure about o'clock yesterday
morning. His son, Dr. Heaton, at Chap
paqua, was notified, and arrived yester-
day afternoon to take charge OF ar
rangements The artist had planned TO
90 on TO Philadelphia to visit friends,
and then was going to see his son in
New York State before returning to his
home at West Palm Beach, Fla, for the
Winter.
Born in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Heaton was born in Philadelphia
April %, 1874. From 1860 he studied
at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts and under P. F. Rothermel. He ex-
hibited his first picture at the Academy
of Fine Arts in 1868, and in the Fall Of
that year went to Paris where he was
the first American To enter the Ecole
des Beaux Arts, then first opened to
Americans, studying In this school for
two years in the class OF Cabanel.
Returning TO the United States, Mr..
Heaton became art professor and lee
turer at the School of Design for Wom-
en- in Philadelphia in 1866 and an as
sociate of the Philadelphia Academy of
Fine Arts in 1868, and moved TO New
York. where he resided for several years.
In 1873 he went TO Paris for the sec
ond time and studied under Bonnat.
He exhibited in the Paris Salon four
times. his most notable exhibit being
THE Bathing Hour, TrouviIle" Mr..
IN ba mi tat
late in 1884 and resided in this city at
his studio-home at the corner OF Seven
tenth and Corcoran streets, until 1908,
when he removed to New York
Among his works are Washington's
First Mission. owned by the Union
League Club, Philadelphia; portrait OF
| Bishop Bowman, for Cornell College
Iowa; portrait group Of Mr.. Tulane and
| Senator Gibson for Tulane University
New Orleans; promoters Of the Library
| Of Congress, in the local Y. M c. A.:
| Graduation Day; The Day Spring from
on High; Grave Of Lafayette, and many
portraits and other small pictures.
Published Epic Poem.
As an author he has published the
| epic poem, the Heart Of David, and
| Fancies and Thought in Verse, as well
4 as Mint Marks, which Is considered an
| authority on that subject. For years he
! published for the entertainment of his
| friends quartely publication known as
the Nut Shell.
His picture, "Hardships OF Emigra-
ton" Is on the I0-cent Omaha stamp.
Surviving are three sons: DR.. Heaton,
| q physician of New York State. who is
now here; Augustus Heaton. living In
France, and Harry Heaton, residing
near Everett, Washington. Mr.. Heaton
was q member Of the Cosmos Club OF
this city.