Artists

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...

William C. Craig was born in Ireland in 1829.  Primarily a watercolorist, he came to the United States in 1863.  In 1866 he was one of the founding members of the American Society of Painters in Water Colors along with William Hart and Samuel Colman.  He painted mostly in the northeast in the style of the Hudson River School painters. He exhibited...

Ann Sophia Towne Darrah was a pupil of Paul Weber.  She was a competent artist whose long career included executing pastel portraits, landscapes, and marine views.  Her later works were done in plein air. In 1858 she took part in the Bierstadt Exhibition in New Bedford, Massachusetts.  She exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum from 1855 to 1865 and at...

I. Biography Little is known about the life of French artist Victor de Grailly, famous for his Hudson River School-style landscapes of the United States. Born in France in 1804, he studied with neo-classical painter Jean Victor Bertin, who also mentored the great Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Surprisingly, it is unlikely that de Grailly ever traveled to...

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...