Draft:List of Americans in Paris (1774–1968)

The relationship between America and France began early on and has continued to this day. This list contains the names and visit dates of American Poets, Musicians, Artists, Writers, Scientists, and Politicians who spent significant time in Paris.

The primary sources for this list are:

Earlier Americans in Paris 1774-1900

 * John Singleton Copley.  1774
 * Benjamin Franklin 1776 – 1785   9 yrs
 * John Adams 1778
 * Samuel Adams  1778
 * John Quincy Adams. Age 10 1778 -1785
 * John Jay 1782. Treaty of Paris
 * Thomas Jefferson. 1784- 1789. 5 yrs
 * John Trumbull 1786.   Guest of Jefferson
 * Charles Bulfich 1789  Architect of Wash DC  1818-1826
 * John Vanderlyn. 1796 – 1803   7 yr
 * Robert Fulton 1797 -1804
 * Robert Livington 1801
 * Benjamin West. 1802
 * Rembrandt Peale 1808 - 1810
 * Washington Irving. 1804- 1806
 * Aaron Burr. 1810- 1811
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1826 -1829
 * James Fenimore Cooper. 1826 -1833   7 yrs
 * Samuel Morse. 1829
 * Oliver Wendell Home. 1833- 1835
 * Emma Willard 1830.  Troy Female Seminary. 1821
 * Charles Sumner. 1830
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson 1833
 * Thomas Gold Appleton 1833 – 1840, 1842
 * William Cullen Bryant. 1834
 * Henry Bowditch 1833- 1834
 * Herman Melville. 1839
 * George Catlin & Iowa Indians  1839, 1845
 * Phineas T Barnum. 1845
 * Margaret Fuller 1846
 * Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
 * James McNeil Whistler 1855
 * Charles Summer. 1857
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne 1857 -1860.
 * Robert Louis Stevenson 1863
 * Winslow Homer 1866
 * Thomas Eakins 1866 -1870
 * Augustus Saint Gaudens. 1867
 * Albert Bierstadt. 1867
 * Mark Twain 1869
 * William Merritt Chase 1872
 * Louisa May Alcott. 1873, 1876
 * John Singer Sargent. 1874
 * Mary Cassatt 1874 -1877  1866 – 1926   60 yrs
 * Cecilia Beaux. 1880
 * Childe Hassam 1883  1886 -1889
 * Frank Benson 1883
 * Dennis Bunker 1883 -1884
 * Willard Metcalf. 1883 -1889
 * Edmund Tarbell 1884
 * John Twachtman  1885
 * Robert Henri 1888

1900 ‘s – 1940

 * Han Schuler 1901
 * James Joyce 1902
 * Gertrude Stein 1903 – 1938   35 yrs
 * Edith Wharton 1910 – 1937
 * Teddy Roosevelt 1910
 * Mabel Dodge Luhan 1913
 * Cole Porter 1917 -1937
 * Aaron Copland  1921
 * Ernest Hemingway 1921 -1927
 * Ezra Pound. 1921 -1924
 * F.Scott Fitzgerald. 1921
 * Willa Cather. 1923
 * Langston Hughes 1923
 * William Faulkner  1925
 * Josephine Baker  1925 -1975   50 yrs
 * George Gershwin  1926
 * Dwight Eisenhower 1928
 * Henry Miller 1930
 * Louis Armstrong 1932, 1934 -1935
 * Duke. Ellington. 1933
 * John. Steinbeck. 1946
 * James Baldwin 1948 -1970.    22 yrs

Jazz Men in Paris

 * Louis Amstrong. 1932
 * Duke Ellington 1933.
 * Coleman Hawkins 1934
 * Glen Miller
 * Miles Davis 1949
 * Charlie Parker. 1949
 * Dizzy Gillespie. 1953
 * Kenny Clark  1948, 1949 -1951.

Poets

 * Allen Ginsberg. 1957.
 * Williams Burroughs 1957.
 * Gregory Corso 1957.   “Bomb “
 * Peter Orlousky  1957
 * Jack. Kerouac.  1965

Abstract. Impressionist Artist

 * Andy Warhol.  1965
 * Mark Rothko. 1965
 * William de Koenig.  1968