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  Norman Vincent Peale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was a Christian preacher and author (most notably of The Power of Positive Thinking) and a progenitor of the theory of "positive thinking".
Peale was born in Bowersville, Ohio and died in Pawling, New York.
Peale was also confessed to be a Freemason (33°) [1].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Vincent_Peale   (690 words)

  
 Titian Peale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peale was first exposed to the study of natural history while assisting his father on his many excursions in search of specimens for the Peale Museum.
Peale took part in the 1817 expedition of the Academy of Natural Sciences to Florida and Georgia, together with Thomas Say, George Ord and William Maclure.
Peale's post-expedition report, Mammalia and Ornithology (1848), was suppressed due to objections by Wilkes and John Cassin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Titian_Peale   (525 words)

  
 Charles Willson Peale
Peale was born in Queen Anne's County, Maryland and became an apprentice to a saddle maker when he was thirteen years old.
Peale was quite prolific as an artist, and while he did portraits of scores of historic figures (such as John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton), he is probably best known for his portraits of George Washington.
Peale could accurately be described as a "renaissance man", having developed a certain level of expertise in such diverse fields as carpentry, dentistry, optometry, shoemaking and taxidermy.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/ch/charles_willson_peale.html   (496 words)

  
 Rembrandt Peale - LoveToKnow 1911
REMBRANDT PEALE (1778-1860), American artist, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on the 22nd of February 1778, the son of Charles Willson Peale.
In 1825 Peale succeeded John Trumbull as president of the American Academy of Fine Arts (founded in 1802 as the New York Academy of Fine Arts), and he was one of the original members of the National Academy of Design.
A brother, Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), was one of the earliest of American still-life painters; and another brother, Titian Ramsey Peale (1800-1885), made numerous drawings, some of them in water-colour, in illustration of animal life.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Rembrandt_Peale   (311 words)

  
 The Charles Willson Peale Family Papers"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Charles Willson Peale, the patriarch of the family, was not only an artist, but a multifaceted man of the American Enlightenment who engaged in society and culture in a wide variety of ways.
Peale displayed initial aptitude as a painter, and in 1767 several wealthy and generous Maryland planters sent him to London to study with Benjamin West.
The Peale family collections are also rich in their quantity and quality of material on the inner workings of the American family.
www.npg.si.edu /exh/peale/papers2.htm   (1353 words)

  
 Charles Willson Peale
In 1772, at Mount Vernon, Peale painted a three-quarters-length study of Washington (the earliest known portrait of him), in the uniform of a colonel of Virginia militia.
Peale painted two miniatures of Martha Washington (1772 and 1777), and portraits of many of the famous men of the time, a number of which are in Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
Peale removed to Philadelphia in 1777, and served as a member of the committee of public safety; he aided in raising a militia company, became a lieutenant and afterwards a captain, and took part in the battles of Trenton, Princeton and Germantown.
www.nndb.com /people/443/000086185   (494 words)

  
 Titian Peale - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
He was the son of Charles Willson Peale.
Peale also took part in the Pacific expedition led by Charles Wilkes between 1838 and 1842.
Peale's report of the trip, Mammalia and Ornithology (1848), was suppressed due to objections by Wilkes.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Titian_Peale   (261 words)

  
 Rembrandt Peale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Peale's contrast of the dark background and lighter foreground is further paralleled in the juxtaposition of the Old World temple and New World portrait.
Rembrandt Peale was born in Philadelphia, in 1778, fourth child in a group of seven siblings who were all named after notable artists of the past.
Peale sought to manifest this new energy in the form of history painting, a risky venture in America where patronage, both public and private, were hard to come by for such time- and money-consuming ventures.
www.wm.edu /muscarelle/factsheets/peale.html   (1375 words)

  
 Norman Vincient Peale
Peale was the pastor the Marble Collegiate Church, a Reformed Church in America congregation in New York City, from the year 1932 to 1984.
Peale's spirituality was a blend of Christian Science and mind science teachings with a dash of Christian terminology: The world you live in is mental and not physical.
Peale, was very much involved in the occult as he claimed to have been in touch with discarnates on several occasions.
www.letusreason.org /Poptea2.htm   (1944 words)

  
 The Watchman Expositor: Norman Vincent Peale
Peale also endorses the writer Eric Butterworth who is one of the chief leaders and writers for Unity School of Christianity.
Peale consistently operates with New Age doctrine and practices, emphasizing the creative power of thought and that consciousness is true reality and aligning your consciousness by meditation or affirmation, will automatically bring what you desire.
She also stated that "Perhaps he (Peale) is too generous with his praise" and that he "does not endorse the New Age Movement" (letter from the Foundation For Christian Living, October 31, 1988).
www.watchman.org /reltop/peale.htm   (2046 words)

  
 cwpeale
Peale thanks the friends of the Museum, who have beneficially added to his collection a number of precious curiosities, from many parts of the world; --from Africa, from Indies, from China, from the Islands of the great Pacific Ocean, and from different parts of America.
Peale's museum also displayed previously known animals which were the first of their kind to be displayed in America, for example, an ant-eater and a camel-leopard, or giraffe.
Peale's remarkable museum was celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic, as his work fascinated and inspired others to investigate the world of nature.
users.dickinson.edu /~nicholsa/Romnat/cwpeale.htm   (1105 words)

  
 NPS Museum Collections 'American Revolutionary War: Independence National Historic Park'
There, Peale was the first to display birds and mammals in museum cases with painted backgrounds that depicted the creatures' natural habitats.
Most of Peale's nine adult children received early and rigorous instruction in the art of drawing; Raphaelle, Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian Ramsay II, and their cousins Sarah Miriam and Anna Claypoole Peale all became professional artists under the senior Peale's tutelage.
Peale returned to his easel, inspired by the experience his son Rembrandt gained during a sojourn in Paris, where the younger man studied at art academies.
www.cr.nps.gov /museum/exhibits/revwar/inde/indepeale.html   (563 words)

  
 MDO - Peale family reunion boasts paintings with a rich history - 06/03/1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Peale descendants, including some artists, will meet June 19 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is exhibiting 221 paintings and other items in a show that represents a small sample of the family's vast production.
Peale's younger brother, James, who was trained as a cabinetmaker, also became a painter under Peale's tutelage.
Rembrandt Peale spent much of his life trying unsuccessfully to make his own image of Washington the standard, instead of Gilbert Stuart's, whose painting of Washington is on the $1 bill.
www.mndaily.com /daily/1997/06/03/news/ap03na.ap   (524 words)

  
 Titian Ramsay Peale Sketches, American Philosophical Society
The youngest son of Charles Willson Peale was born in Philosophical Hall in November 1799 and given the name Titian Ramsay Peale, after a brother who had died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1798.
Peale executed several drawings of new American birds for Charles Lucien Bonaparte's supplement to Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (Philadelphia, 1825-1833), and was hired by Say to prepare 54 colored plates for a three-volume American Entomology (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum, 1824-1828).
There is relatively little to show for Peale's work after the end of the Wilkes Expedition, apart from a few sketches of bison from the 1870s and a series eight small oil paintings of Seven Mile Beach, New Jersey, 1873, and two oils of forest scenes.
www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/p/pealetr.htm   (1708 words)

  
 Peale accentuated the positive
Peale’s sermons and his books that emphasized people’s ability to succeed and their faith in God, rather than focusing on their sins and guilt, changed the way other clergy ministered their congregations.
Ordained a Methodist minister in 1924, Peale was known as the ‘‘Minister to Millions.’’ He changed denominations to become pastor of Marble Collegiate, a Dutch Reformed church, in New York City in 1932, retiring in 1984.
Peale received the presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 1984, and in 1991 he received the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal, awarded to individuals who have made a significant contribution to society.
www.enjoyhv.com /fe/Heritage/stories/he_peale.asp   (413 words)

  
 Jeff Feldmeier: The Beech Creek Railroad in the Peale, Pennsylvania Area
Four of the drifts were located at a field of 300 acres east of the Peale Tunnel and the fifth drift at a field of 50 acres south of the tunnel.
The Peale station, located on appropriately named Station Hill, was quite distant from the village itself, about a mile as the crow flies, to the geographical southeast of the village.
Peale was a regular passenger train stop until 1923 or 1924 when it was downgraded to a flag stop.
go.owu.edu /~jbkrygie/krygier_html/peale/peale_bc.html   (5396 words)

  
 NMWA | Private Collection | Profile - Sarah Miriam Peale
The youngest daughter of the American painter James Peale, Sarah Miriam Peale was "the leading portrait painter in Baltimore and St. Louis" during the mid-19th century.
In 1818 she spent three months studying with her cousin, the noted painter Rembrandt Peale; his influence and inspiration, plus that of her uncle, Charles Willson Peale, were important for her early work.
Six years later she and her sister Anna Claypoole Peale, a miniaturist, became the first two female members of the Academy, an enormously influential Philadelphia institution.
www.nmwa.org /collection/profile.asp?LinkID=665   (267 words)

  
 Moab Utah Area Lodging Bed & Breakfast Accomodations at Mt. Peale Inn Spa & Cabins, Moab Utah
Peale Resort Inn/Lodge and Cabins is nestled in the La Sal Mountains but surrounded in both directions, by the desert paradise of Canyon Country; Moab, Arches and Canyonlands National Parks.
After returning back to Mt. Peale from an active and pleasurable day, a guest can relax by the outdoor fire pit, a soak in the hot tub or you may choose to indulge yourself with a soothing massage or body wrap.
Peale's, "Quality Home Cooking", the "favorite" of previous guests, is a sought after break from the vacation routine of eating at restaurants.
www.mtpeale.com   (569 words)

  
 Guideposts Magazine - Peale Notes
To his death, Peale remained affiliated with the IRH as president of the board and chief fund raiser.
Peale did not believe that Christ was eternal God, and thereby, he rejected the Christian doctrine of sin, did not believe that Jesus Christ's sacrifice atoned for sin, and did not believe in the physical resurrection of Christ.
(Peale served as Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of New York, Imperial Grand Chaplain of the Shrine, and was inducted into the Scottish Rite Hall of Honor in 1991.
www.rapidnet.com /~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/guidepo/peale.htm   (1209 words)

  
 Norman Vincent Peale Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Peale confessed that as a youth he had "the worst inferiority complex of all," and developed his positive thinking/positive confession philosophy just to help himself.
In 1937, Peale established a clinic with Freudian psychiatrist Dr. Smiley Blanton in the basement of the Marble Collegiate Church.
Peale applied Christianity to everyday problems and is the person who is most responsible for bringing psychology into the professing Church, blending its principles into a message of "positive thinking." Peale said, "through prayer you...
normanvincentpeale.wwwhubs.com   (719 words)

  
 CMS: Lagenorhynchus australis, Peale's dolphin
Peale's dolphin ranges in coastal waters of southern South America from Valdivia, Chile (38°S), and Golfo San José, Argentina (44°S), south to Beagle Canal and Falkland Islands / Islas Malvinas (Goodall et al.
Behaviour: Peale's dolphin is known to ride bow-waves of large vessels and may swim alongside smaller ones.
In the meantime campaigns to Inform the citizenry, environmental organizations and the importing nations of the illegal aspects and the environmental effects of the crab fishery are needed (Reyes, 1991).
www.cms.int /reports/small_cetaceans/data/L_australis/L_australis.htm   (1835 words)

  
 REMBRANDT PEALE 1778-
The challenge to distinguish himself as an artist was compounded by a lack of public interest in the arts, his poor business skills, and his desire to depart from the well-trodden path of portrait painting.
However, it was as a portraitist that Peale was able to support his large family and combine his high-minded, nationalist ideals with an art that appealed to a large audience.
The importance of Rembrandt Peale's icon-making to the evolution of American culture has been confirmed most recently in the potency of 1960s Pop Art images, and by that movement's revelation of our society's ongoing interest in icon creation.
www.butlerart.com /pc_book/pages/rembrand.htm   (368 words)

  
 Common-place: Peale’s Mastodon
Peale’s American incognitum was famous throughout the land thanks to newspaper reports, museum exhibits, and President Thomas Jefferson´s well-publicized efforts to acquire its bones.
Excavated by Peale from a farm in the Hudson River Valley in 1801, the skeleton belonged then to an unknown species, later identified as the mastodon.
As their preliminary drawings indicate, when the Peales first mounted the skeleton, they inserted the tusks pointing upward like those of plant eating elephants, although the broadside advertising the exhibit emphasized the unknown animal’s carnivorous nature.
www.common-place.org /vol-04/no-02/semonin   (3029 words)

  
 Daily Guideposts - Your Source for Inspiration - About Us - Our Founders
During his long life, Dr. Peale was acclaimed as one of the foremost ministers and motivational speakers and writers of the 20th century.
Although Ruth Stafford Peale worked closely with her husband in all aspects of his ministry, she also has established a separate identity as a religious leader, public speaker and author.
Peale was the first woman president of the National Board of North American Missions of the Reformed Church in America, and the first woman chairman of the Planning and Program Committee of the National Council of Churches 1966 Assembly.
www.dailyguideposts.com /aboutus/founders.asp   (479 words)

  
 The religion of Norman Vincent Peale, inspirational writer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Norman Vincent Peale was one of the most popular preachers in America.
Norman Vincent Peale was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church, but he later converted to the Reformed Church.
Peale was the president of the Reformed Church in America in 1969 and 1970.
www.adherents.com /people/pp/Norman_Vincent_Peale.html   (128 words)

  
 Charles Wilson Peale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Charles Willson Peale was truly the preeminent painter of his generation.
Indeed, Peale traded one of his best saddles with (the moderately well known) John Hesselius in exchange for a few painting lessons.
With Benjamin West as his teacher and muse, Peale returned to Maryland with an impressive talent for capturing the spirit of his sitters.
www.hammondharwoodhouse.org /Charles%20Willson%20Peale.htm   (164 words)

  
 MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 1999 | Museum as Muse | Peale
Charles Willson Peale, best known as a late-eighteenth-century portrait painter, was also the creator of the first American museum, an encyclopedic institution devoted to cultural and natural history.
Founded in Philadelphia, Peale's museum included an extensive portrait gallery and specimens from the animal, vegetable, and mineral worlds, all arranged according to a taxonomic structure.
In this work, Peale depicts himself as the epitome of the gentleman connoisseur, holding back a velvet curtain to reveal his prized collection.
www.moma.org /exhibitions/1999/muse/artist_pages/peale_artist.html   (137 words)

  
 Peale, Norman V.
Norman Vincent Peale was born on May 31, 1898, in Bowersville, Ohio.
Peale encouraged his readers and listeners to identify their goals and to maintain a positive outlook so that they could and would achieve these dreams.
At the height of Peale's popularity, more than 750,000 people also received Peale's sermons through the mail every month, and his radio program, "The Art of Living," ranked among the most popular broadcasts for almost fifty years.
www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=1815   (324 words)

  
 Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
At the age of 34, Peale accepted a call to Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan where he remained for 52 years as one of New York City’s most famous preachers.
Peale completed what has been called his all-time inspirational best seller at age 54.
Peale also co-founded “The Horatio Alger Association,” with educator Kenneth Beebe in 1947 dedicated to recognizing and honoring contemporary Americans who have achieved success and excellence in the face of adversity.
www.quotemonk.com /authors/norman-vincent-peale/biography-profile.htm   (499 words)

  
 Maryland ArtSource - Artists - Charles Willson Peale
Peale studied painting with John Hesselius in 1763 and met John Singleton Copley in Boston and studied in his studio from Oct-Jan 1765.
In 1882, he opened Peale's Museum in Philadelphia consisting of natural history objects and portraits, the majority of the latter by himself and his son Rembrandt Peale.
It mentions that: Peale's portraits reflect the naturalistic portrait style of London in Sir Joshua Reynolds' day as well as Hogarth's theory of the line of beauty'; Du Fresnoy acquainted Peale with the concept of a relationship between painting and poetry; and Benjamin West's dedication to art influenced Charles Willson Peale greatly.
www.marylandartsource.org /artists/detail_000000030.html   (729 words)

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