Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homer, Winslow | 
Winslow
Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape
painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered
one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in
American art.
Largely
self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator.[1]... | 1836 - 1910 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Bellows, George Wesley |
George
Wesley Bellows (August 12[1][2] or August 19,[3][4][5] 1882 - January 8, 1925)
was an American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in
New York City, becoming, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, "the
most acclaimed American artist of his generation".[6]
Youth
Bellows was
born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. He... | 1882 - 1925 | Anonymous | 01/13/2013 |
| Burr, George Elbert |
George
Elbert Burr (1859–1939) was an American printmaker and painter best known
for his etchings and drypoints of the desert and mountain regions of the
American West.
Burr was
born in 1859 in Monroe Falls, Ohio. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago
for one winter, his only formal artistic training. Nevertheless, he enjoyed
early success... | 1859 - 1939 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Bluemner, Oscar |
Oscar
Bluemner (June 21, 1867 – January 12, 1938), born as Friedrich Julius
Oskar Blümner[1] and since 1933, known as Oscar Florianus Bluemner,[2] was
a German-born American Modernist painter.
Early life
Bluemner
was born as Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner in Prenzlau, Germany on June
21, 1867.[1]
Architecture
Bluemner
moved to Chicago in... | 1867 - 1938 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Butler, Theodore |
Theodore
Earl Butler, (1861–1936) an American impressionist painter, he was born
in Columbus, Ohio and died in Giverny, France, May 2,
1936.
Biography
Theodore
studied at Marietta College in Ohio and graduated in 1882. He studied at the
Art Students League with James Carroll Beckwith, Kenyon Cox and J. Alden Weir, and under William Merritt... | 1861 - 1936 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Hassam, Frederick Childe |
Frederick
Childe Hassam (October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935) was a prolific
American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along
with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam
was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers,
and museums. He produced over 3,000 paintings, watercolors,... | 1859 - 1935 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Eakins, Thomas |
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916)
was an American realist painter, photographer[2],
sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the
most important artists in American art history.[3][4]
For the
length of his professional career, from the early 1870s until his health began
to fail some 40... | 1844 - 1916 | Anonymous | 11/03/2013 |
| Twachtman, John Henry |
John Henry Twachtman (August 4, 1853 – August 8, 1902) was an
American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his
painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American Impressionism to be among the
more personal and experimental of his generation. He was a member of "The
Ten",... | 1853 - 1902 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Catlin, George |
George
Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American painter,
author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old
West.
Biography
Early years
Catlin was
born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His early work included engravings drawn
from nature of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York... | 1796 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Weir, Julian Alden |
Julian
Alden Weir (August 30, 1852 – December 8, 1919) was an American
impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich,
Connecticut. Weir was also one of "The Ten", a loosely-allied group
of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who
banded together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a... | 1852 - 1919 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
