Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audubon, John James | 
John James
Audubon (Jean-Jacques Audubon) (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a
French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his
expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed
illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major
work, a color-plate book... | 1785 - 1851 | Anonymous | 07/23/2012 |
| Waldo, Samuel Lovett |
The
portraitist Samuel Lovett Waldo was born April 6, 1783, in Windham,
Connecticut, one of eight children born to farmer Zacheus
Waldo and his wife Esther Stevens Waldo. At the age of sixteen he went to
Hartford and took drawing lessons from an obscure painter named Joseph Steward.
He set up a studio there in 1803, but found few clients and... | 1783 - 1861 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| 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 |
| Church, Frederic Edwin |
Frederic
Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape
painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson
River School of American landscape painters. While committed to the natural
sciences, he was "always concerned with including a spiritual dimension in
his works."[1]
Biography
Beginnings
The... | 1826 - 1900 | Anonymous | 04/01/2012 |
| Cole, Thomas |
Thomas Cole
(February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-born American
artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American
art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's Hudson River
School, as well as his own work, was known for its realistic and detailed
portrayal of American landscape and... | 1801 - 1848 | Anonymous | 04/01/2012 |
| Whistler, James McNeill |
James
Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 — July 17, 1903) was an
American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral
allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for
art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a
stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail.[1]... | 1834 - 1903 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 |
| Herzog, Herman |
Hermann Ottomar Herzog (November 15, 1832[1] – February 6,
1932) was a prominent nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and
American artist, primarily known for his landscapes. He was born in Bremen,
Germany and entered the Düsseldorf Academy at age seventeen. Herzog
achieved early commercial success, allowing him to travel widely and... | 1831 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Hartley, Marsden |
Marsden
Hartley (January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943) was an American Modernist
painter, poet, and essayist.
Early life and education
Hartley was
born in Lewiston, Maine,[1] where his English parents had settled. He was the
youngest of nine children.[2] His mother died when he was eight, and his father
remarried four years later to Martha... | 1877 - 1943 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 |
| Henry, Edward Lamson |
Edward Lamson Henry (January 12, 1841 – May 9, 1919), commonly known as E.L. Henry, was an American genre painter, born in Charleston, South Carolina.
Early life
Though born in Charleston, by age seven his parents had died and Henry moved to live with cousins in New York City. He began studying painting, there and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine... | 1841 - 1919 | Anonymous | 01/02/2013 |
| Haskell, Ernest |
Ernest Haskell was born in Woodstock, Connecticut. In 1897 he left to study in Paris, returning to New York in 1899 and supporting himself with portrait work and poster design.
The mountain lake in Ernest Haskell's etching The Sylvan Sea was one of many different locales--from California to Florida to Maine--he depicted in his work. In addition to... | 1876 - 1925 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
