Ira J. Deen | |
Birth Name: | Ira J. Deen |
Birth Date: | December 9, 1874 |
Birth Place: | Mount Union, Pennsylvania, United States |
Nationality: | American |
Field: | Painting |
Movement: | American Impressionism, Pennsylvania plein air Impressionism |
Ira J. Deen (December 9, 1874 - June 7, 1952) was an American artist.
Born in Mount Union, Pennsylvania, Deen moved with his family to Harrisburg in 1891 when he was 16 where he took a job painting city electric trolley cars for the Harrisburg Traction Co.[1] Deen was known for his impressionist nature and landscape paintings of the Susquehanna River and other areas of Pennsylvania countryside.[2]