Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Wachtel, Elmer |
Painter. Born in Baltimore, MD on Jan. 21, 1864.
When Elmer
was quite young, the Wachtel family moved to Lanark, IL where he worked as a
hired hand and taught himself to play the violin.
At age 18,
he moved to San Gabriel, CA where his brother had married the sister of artist
Guy Rose and was managing the large Rose ranch. He continued playing... | 1864 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Vos, Hubert | 1855 - 1935 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Vonnoh, Robert |
Robert
William Vonnoh (September 17, 1858 – 1933) was an American Impressionist
painter known for his portraits and landscapes. He traveled extensively between
the East Coast and France, more specifically the artists colony Grez-sur-Loing.
He studied in
Paris at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph
Lefebvre. He taught at... | 1858 - 1933 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
Voll, F. Usher |
De Voll’s paintings include scenes of Providence and New
York City, often showing the marine activities of the Hudson River and the New
York harbor
Biography
Frederick
Usher De Voll was an American landscapist who
depicted scenes of New York City and his home town of Providence, Rhode Island.
He exhibited frequently throughout his lifetime at... | 1873 - 1941 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Volkmar, Charles | 1809 - 1892 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
Volk, Douglas |
Douglas
Volk, named Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk (23 February 1856 - 1935)[1] was an American portrait and landscape painter. He
helped establish the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. After 1904 he and his
wife Marion created an artists' retreat at their family home, Hewnoaks, in Maine. She became active in the production of
woolen textiles and rugs... | 1856 - 1935 | Anonymous | 03/25/2012 |
Vinton, Frederick Porter |
Frederic
Porter Vinton (January 29, 1846 – May 19, 1911), sometimes spelled
"Frederick", was an American portrait painter from Bangor, Maine. He
grew up in Chicago, and moved to Boston in 1861[1] For twenty years he worked
as a bookkeeper, during which he studied art under William Rimmer at the Lowell
Institute. Soon after studying at the... | 1846 - 1911 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Verstille, William | 1757 - 1803 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 | |
Vedder, Elihu |
Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836 – January 29, 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City.
He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (deluxe edition, published by Houghton Mifflin).
Biography
Elihu Vedder was born February 26,... | 1836 - 1923 | Anonymous | 11/12/2012 |
Vanderlyn, Pieter |
Pieter
Vanderlyn (* 1687 , † 1778 in Shawangunk ) was an American painter of
Dutch origin. He is the Patroon Painters counted.
Vanderlyn
in 1718 emigrated from the Netherlands, probably via Curacao to New York one.
It is unclear where he then resided, presumably in Kingston on the Hudson River
, 130 km north of New York , or Albany .
He... | 1687 - 1778 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |