Artists

Name
InfoYearsUpdated byDate
Wores, Theodorenotes
Theodore Wores (August 1, 1859–September 11, 1939) was an American painter born in San Francisco, son of Joseph Wores and Gertrude Liebke. His father worked as a hat manufacturer in San Francisco. Wores began his art training at age twelve in the studio of Joseph Harrington, who taught him color, composition, drawing and perspective. When the San...
1859 - 1939Anonymous04/11/2012
Wright, James Henry 1813 - 1883Alexander Lusher05/15/2012
Wyant, Alexander Helwignotes
Alexander Helwig Wyant, was born January 11, 1836, in Ohio - and he died November 29, 1892 in New York, New York. He was an American landscape painter. Also known as Alexander Wyant, A. H. Wyant, he was active as an artist in Arkville, New York, and Keene Valley, New York among other places. Biography Alexander Wyant was born at Port Washington,...
1836 - 1892Anonymous04/04/2012
Wylie, Robertnotes
Robert Wylie (1839 - February 4, 1877), American artist, was born in the Isle of Man and relocated with his parents to the United States as a child. Wylie studied in the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, later serving a curator. In 1860, he helped found the Philadelphia Sketch Club, now one of the nation's oldest...
1839 -  1877Anonymous04/21/2012
Yeager, Joseph 1792 -  1859Anonymous07/28/2012
Yelland, Raymond 1848 - 1900Anonymous12/16/2012
Yewell, George Henry 1830 - 1923igrkio03/27/2012
Young, Harvey O.notes
Harvey Otis Young was born in Lyndon, Vermont on November 23, 1840. He was educated there at St Johnsbury Academy and, as a teenager, worked as an ornamental painter decorating scales. In 1859 he sailed from New York City via Panama to San Francisco in search of gold. When not panning for gold in the Salmon River area, he made many sketches which...
1840 - 1901Anonymous05/19/2012
Young, William Sheridannotes
William Sheridan Young is another elusive artist, all but forgotten by history's imperfect memory.  His 1866 address was Philadelphia, and yet he appears never to have exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts or the National Academy of Design.  Rather, his paintings were occasionally found in exhibitions in Cincinnati (1866 and 1873)...
Active 1866 - 1876Anonymous12/22/2012
Zeliff, Amzi Emmonsnotes
Amzi Emmons Zeliff was born 11 April 1831, in Morris County, New Jersey, son of Daniel P. and Maria Van Houton Zeliff and a descendant of early Dutch settlers of Staten Island and New Jersey. He later may have moved to Essex County for a period, perhaps upon his marriage to Cornelia Harris. Family members say that at one time he owned the White Horse...
1831 - 1915Anonymous05/02/2012
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