Artists

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Vanderlyn, Johnnotes
John Vanderlyn (October 18, 1775 – September 23, 1852) was an American neoclassicist painter. Biography Vanderlyn was born at Kingston, New York. He was employed by a print-seller in New York, and was first instructed in art by Archibald Robinson (1765–1835), a Scotsman who was afterwards one of the directors of the American Academy of...
1775 - 1852Anonymous04/04/2012
Tarbell, Edmund Charlesnotes
Edmund Charles Tarbell (April 26, 1862 – August 1, 1938) was an American Impressionist painter. He was a member of the Ten American Painters. His work is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery and the National Academy of Design, among others. Early life and education Edmund Charles Tarbell, called "Ned" as a boy, was...
1862 - 1938Anonymous04/04/2012
Pennington, Harpernotes
Harper Pennington was born in Baltimore to a prominent Maryland family. After studying drawing at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris with the renowned teacher and artist Jean Leon Gérome, in 1880 he traveled to Munich, where the American artist Frank Duveneck's school was well known. Pennington was advised to join Duveneck's winter art class in...
1853 - 1920Anonymous04/04/2012
Lanman, Charlesnotes
Charles Lanman was an author, government official, artist, librarian, and explorer. Early life and education Charles Lanman was born at Monroe, Michigan, on June 14, 1819, the son of Charles James Lanman, and the grandson of United States Senator James Lanman.[1] Lanman's early life included newspaper work as editor of the Monroe Gazette in...
1819 - 1895Anonymous04/04/2012
Robinson, Theodorenotes
Theodore Robinson (July 3, 1852 – April 2, 1896) was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close friendship with Claude Monet. Several of his works are considered masterpieces of...
1852 - 1896Anonymous04/04/2012
Ryder, Albert Pinkhamnotes
Albert Pinkham Ryder (March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917) was an American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle variations of color with tonalist works of the time, it was unique for accentuating form in a way that some art...
1847 - 1917Anonymous04/04/2012
Wiles, Irving R.notes
Born in Utica, New York, in 1861 the portraitist Irving Ramsey Wiles first studied art with his father, landscape painter Lemuel Maynard Wiles (1826-1905). In 1879 he followed his father's advice and moved to New York. He entered the Art Students League, where he spent two years studying with Thomas W. Dewing, J. Carroll Beckwith, and William Merritt...
1861 - 1948Anonymous04/04/2012
Waldo, Samuel Lovettnotes
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 - 1861Anonymous04/04/2012
Twachtman, John Henrynotes
John Henry Twachtman (August 4, 1853 – August 8, 1902) was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American Impressionism to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation. He was a member of "The Ten",...
1853 - 1902Anonymous04/04/2012
Weir, Julian Aldennotes
Julian Alden Weir (August 30, 1852 – December 8, 1919) was an American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich, Connecticut. Weir was also one of "The Ten", a loosely-allied group of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who banded together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a...
1852 - 1919Anonymous04/04/2012
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