Timeline

1864 Born in Valley Forge Pennsylvania

1884 Was made chief Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

1885 Wagner left the Academy to make a painting tour of San Antonio, Texas. He then went on to Los Angeles California where he painted a number of landscapes and Portraits

1902 Left his job as an illustrator for the Philadelphia Press and moved to

1912 Wagner opened a Philadelphia studio and taught classes in outdoor painting at Addingham, and later, at the Pennsylvania Academy Summer School

1940 Died in Philadelphia at the age of 76

Awards:
Pennsylvania Academy of fine Art Fellowship Prize, 1914
Pittsburgh International, Philadelphia Art Club, and the Carnegie Institute, Honorable Mention 1922