Artists

Most scholars list Pinckney Marcius-Simons' birth date as 1867, but some art historians assert that he was born in 1865. A New York City native, visionary symbolist painter Pinckney Marcius-Simons spent most of his adult life in Europe, having been taken there as a baby by his parents. He did not return until he was age 25. He was especially known...

Robert Henri (25 June 1865 – 12 July 1929) was an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art. Early life Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio to Theresa Gatewood Cozad of Malden, Virginia and John Jackson Cozad, a gambler and real estate developer. Henri had a brother, Johnny, and...

A critic for the Saturday Review (1928) wrote, "Mr. Horton has created a new world on the beaches and one sees nothing in these animated scenes of customary bathing pictures. T'were unmannerly to compare his figures with paintings of Cézanne, for no robust, nature-loving Englishman ever contemplated those limbs of Cézanne figures with any real...