Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dow, Arthur Wesley | 
An
innovative artist and influential art theorist and teacher, Arthur Wesley Dow
was a proponent of pure design principles rather than literal naturalism as the
basis for art. Dow was a native of Ipswich, Massachusetts, whose flat coastal
landscape and subtly shifting light proved a powerful source of aesthetic
inspiration. He studied art privately... | 1857 - 1922 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Crane, Bruce |
Bruce Crane
(1857– October 30, 1937, Bronxville, New York) was an American painter.
He joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 1900s. His most active period,
though, came after 1920, when for more than a decade he did oil sketches of
woods, meadows, and hills. He developed into a Tonalist painter under the
influence of Jean Charles Cazin at... | 1857 - 1937 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
| Coleman, Charles Caryl |
Charles Caryl Coleman resided on the breathtaking Italian island of
Capri from 1886 until his death in 1928, becoming an individual leader in the
local art community. Coleman’s paintings from this period depict
Capri’s flawless beauty and reveal his devotion to the island’s
historical legacy.
Born in Buffalo, New York, Coleman to many... | 1840 - 1928 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Cooper, Colin Campbell |
Colin
Campbell Cooper, Jr. (March 8, 1856 – November 6, 1937) was an American
Impressionist painter, perhaps most renowned for his architectural paintings,
especially of skyscrapers in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. An avid
traveler, he was also known for his paintings of European and Asian landmarks,
as well as natural landscapes,... | 1856 - 1937 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Codman, Charles |
Charles
Codman (circa 1800–1842) was a landscape painter of Portland, Maine. His
art is featured at the Portland Museum of Art as mature, fine early American
landscape painting.
Codman was
probably from Boston and was apprenticed to the ornamental painter, John Ritto
Penniman. Codman began as a decorative painter and had no formal training... | 1800 - 1842 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Deas, Charles |
Charles Deas (December 22, 1818 – March 23, 1867), was an American painter noted for his oil paintings of
Native Americans and fur trappers of the mid-19th century.
Biography
Charles Deas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attempted,
and failed, to obtain an appointment to the United States Military Academy at
West Point, New York.[1]... | 1818 - 1867 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Demuth, Charles |
Charles
Demuth (November 8, 1883 – October 23, 1935) was an American
watercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of
painting known as Precisionism.
"Search
the history of American art," wrote Ken Johnson in the New York Times,
"and you will discover few watercolors more beautiful than those of
Charles Demuth.... | 1883 - 1935 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Drew, Clement |
Clement Drew (1806-1889) was an artist and "dealer in picture-frames" in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1] He specialized in marine paintings. He kept a studio on Court Street (ca.1840s-1860s),[2][3] Tremont Street (in the Boston Museum building, ca.1873), Copeland Street (ca.1888),[4] and Tremont Temple (1889).[5] He married Elizabeth... | 1806 - 1889 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Davis, Charles Harold |
One of the most critically successful landscape painters of the turn of
the twentieth century, Charles Harold Davis created works in which nature
reflects subjective mood and emotion. Davis was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, the
son of a schoolteacher. An avid draftsman by his early teens, he studied
drawing for two years at Boston’s Museum of... | 1856 - 1933 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Granger, Charles Henry |
An
itinerant painter who at various times was also a poet, linguist, composer,
musician, music teacher, sculptor, and draftsman, Charles Granger was born on
13 June 1812 in Saco, Maine, a town just south of Portland where the Saco River
meets the Atlantic. He was the son of Daniel Granger and Mary Jordan.
Granger's
artistic career began about... | 1812 - 1893 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
