Newton Alonzo Wells

Newton Alonzo Wells (April 9, 1852 – January 16, 1923) was an American artist and professor of art. Wells is known for his portrait paintings, murals, etchings, and sculptures; as well as decorative art. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He attended high school at Franklin Academy in Malone, New York.

In 1878, he married Flora A. Ellis. They had a son and a daughter.

Career Wells taught at Union College in Schenectady, New York from 1877 to 1879;

Death and legacy He died on January 16, 1923, in Algeria, while traveling. the Cornell University libraries, and the Syracuse University Art Museum. The Housewife (1888), oil painting, at Syracuse University Art Museum Portrait of the Honorable David Decker (1889), oil painting, at Syracuse University Art Museum Portrait of Thomas W. Durston (1890), oil painting Portrait of Dr. Charles N. Sims (1893), oil painting, at Syracuse University Art Museum Portrait of Chancellor Alexander Winchell (1893), oil painting, at Syracuse University Art Museum The Laboratory of Minerva, four murals in the dome (1898–1899) in Altgeld Hall at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign murals (1903) for the Gayoso Hotel in Memphis, now at the DeSoto County Courthouse in Hernando, Mississippi Spring (1913) color etching with aquatint and chine-collé, at Smithsonian American Art Museum Portrait of N. Clifford Ricker (1917) etching, at Smithsonian American Art Museum A Man (1917) etching, at Smithsonian American Art Museum Portrait of Dr. Burrill (1917) etching, at Smithsonian American Art Museum