Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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| Brooks, Alden Finney |  Alden Finney Brooks was born April 3, 1840, in Williamsfield, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, of Charles and Isabel [Thompson] Brooks. He received an academic education in J L. Pickard's institution at Platteville, Wis., from 1857 to 1859.
Being in poor health he made the journey to Eureka, Cal., on foot in 1859. In 1861 he returned home and enlisted early in... | 1840 - 1932 | Anonymous | 04/18/2013 |
| Benton, Thomas Hart | Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. His fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States. Though his work is strongly associated with the... | 1889 - 1975 | Anonymous | 04/18/2013 |
| Brooks, Maria | Known for her oil portraits, landscapes, genre, and flower paintings, Maria Brooks studied at the South Kensington and Royal Academy Schools in London. She opened a studio in the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, in 1881, and was known to be working in Quebec City in 1886. Sometime after this, she left Canada for the United States, painting in New York in 1889... | 1837 - 1913 | Anonymous | 04/18/2013 |
| Randall, A.M. |
No
information on the artist has been located. The artist's name and active date
of 1777 come from the inscription on the National Gallery's painting Basket of
Fruit with Parrot (1980.62.20). While it is possible that this is an English
painting, it probably was produced in America by an artist copying a European
still life, or more likely, a... | Active ca. 1777 | Anonymous | 11/02/2013 |
| Dunning, Robert Spear | Dunning was a co-founder and leader of the Fall River School of still life painting. As a boy he was employed in a Fall River mill. Later he worked in coastal shipping while studying art. In 1859 he joined with John E. Grouard to form the firm of Grouard & Dunning, artists. About 1865 he began to focus on still life paintings, although he... | 1829 - 1905 | Anonymous | 11/02/2013 |
| Tanner, Henry Ossawa |
Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937) was an
African American artist best known for his style of painting. He was the first
African American painter to gain international acclaim.[1][2]
Education
In 1879
Tanner enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
His decision to attend the school came at an... | 1859 - 1937 | Anonymous | 11/03/2013 |
| Koerner, William Henry Dethlef |
Wilhelm
Heinrich Detlev "Big Bill" Körner (November 1878– August 11, 1938), also
known as Wilhelm Heinrich Dethlef Koerner,
William HD Koerner, WHDK, or W.H.D. Koerner,[1] was a noted
illustrator of the American West whose works became known to new audiences when
his painting, nicknamed A Charge to Keep, was used as the cover image for... | 1878 - 1938 | Anonymous | 11/03/2013 |
| 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 |
| Abbey, Edwin Austin |
Edwin
Austin Abbey (April 1, 1852 – August 1, 1911) was an American artist,
illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now
referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known
for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well
as for his painting of Edward VII's... | 1852 - 1911 | Anonymous | 12/16/2013 |
| Grant, Clement Rollins |
Clement
Rollins Grant was a painter-etcher who was born in 1849 in Freeport, Maine. He
studied in England in 1867, before setting up studios at 112 West Street in
Boston (1882-) and Broadway & 33 rd Street and 80
Washington Square, New York City (1883-) and he rapidly became recognized as a
competent realist who specialized in human genre... | 1849 - 1893 | Anonymous | 03/15/2014 |
