Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Groll, Albert Lorey | 1866 - 1952 | Anonymous | 11/12/2012 | |
MacMonnies, Frederick W. |
Frederick
William MacMonnies (September 28, 1863 – March 22, 1937) was the best
known expatriate American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school, as successful and
lauded in France as he was in the United States. He was also a highly
accomplished painter and portraitist.
He was born
in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York and died in New York... | 1863 - 1937 | Anonymous | 11/11/2012 |
Adams, Cassilly |
A descendent of President John Adams, Cassilly Adams created history paintings and genre scenes that captured the spirit of life on the American frontier. Adams studied at the Boston Academy of Art and the Cincinnati Art School before joining the Union army during the Civil War. After being wounded in the Battle of Vicksburg, Adams produced his... | 1843 - 1921 | Anonymous | 11/10/2012 |
Walter, Russel | Walter Bowman Russell (May 19, 1871 – May 19, 1963) was an American polymath known for his achievements as a painter, sculptor, author and builder and less well known as a natural philosopher and for his unified theory in physics and cosmogony. He posited that the universe was founded on a unifying principle of rhythmic balanced interchange. This... | 1871 - 1963 | Anonymous | 11/10/2012 |
Davidson, Julian Oliver | A specialist in naval illustration, Julian Davidson was extremely valuable to the editors of The Century magazine during the Civil War to depict naval action. He reconstructed his illustrations from eyewitness accounts and quick on-the-site sketches, and many of his works were reproduced in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War and Harper's Weekly.
He... | 1853 - 1894 | Anonymous | 11/05/2012 |
MacCameron, Robert Lee | 1866 - 1912 | Anonymous | 11/05/2012 | |
Kurz & Allison Art Publishers | Kurz and Allison were a major publisher of chromolithographs in the late 19th century. Based at 267-269 Wabash Avenue in Chicago, they built their reputation on large prints published in the mid-1880s depicting battles of the American Civil War. This was a period of recollection among veterans, and the company was trying to capitalise of this... | Active ca. 1888 - 1890 | Anonymous | 11/05/2012 |
Mayer, Frank Blackwell |
Francis
Blackwell Mayer (December 27, 1827 – December 5, 1899) was a prominent
19th century American genre painter from Maryland. While he spent most of his
life in that state, he took a trip to the western frontier in the
mid-nineteenth century and executed a series of drawings of Native Americans;
he also studied in Paris for five years in the... | 1827 - 1899 | Anonymous | 10/30/2012 |
Carlson, John Fabian | 1875 - 1945 | Anonymous | 10/21/2012 | |
Ehninger, John Whetten |
John
Whetten Ehninger (July 22, 1827 New York City - January 22, 1889 Saratoga, New
York) was a United States painter and etcher.
Biography
He
graduated from Columbia University in 1847. He was a pupil of Couture in Paris
1848-1849, and afterward studied at Düsseldorf and other art centres
1851-1852.
Among his
paintings, which include landscape... | 1827 - 1889 | Anonymous | 10/20/2012 |