Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robbins, Ellen | 
Ellen
Robbins is best known for her watercolor paintings of flowers and autumn
leaves. Primarily a self-taught watercolorist, Robbins was born in Watertown,
Massachusetts in 1828. During her youth, she spent hours copying lithographs
from drawing books. During the 1940s, she studied briefly at the New England
School of Design and Manchester... | 1828 - 1905 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Thompson, Jerome B. |
Jerome
Thompson's genre paintings on rustic themes, which were immensely popular in
the late nineteenth century, have received new attention recently. This revived interest focuses on the
unusual distinction of Thompson's landscape settings, which often dominate the
pictures' simple foreground scenes of rural work, play or dalliance. Thompson's... | 1814 - 1886 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Dickinson, Preston | 1889 - 1930 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 | |
| Butler, Edward Burgess | 1853 - 1928 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 | |
| Lacroix, Paul |
Paul LaCroix, an immigrant from France, appeared in New York
some time before 1855. Urban centers such as New York and Philadelphia
witnessed an influx of foreign artists at mid-century who left “to escape
the turmoil of the revolutions of 1848” (1). European immigrants such as LaCroix brought with them the Dutch, German, and French
traditions... | 1827 - 1869 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| Vonnoh, Robert |
Robert
William Vonnoh (September 17, 1858 – 1933) was an American Impressionist
painter known for his portraits and landscapes. He traveled extensively between
the East Coast and France, more specifically the artists colony Grez-sur-Loing.
He studied in
Paris at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph
Lefebvre. He taught at... | 1858 - 1933 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| Garrett, Edmund Henry | 1853 - 1929 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 | |
| Holm, Julius | 1855 - 1930 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 | |
| Grant, Gordon | 1875 - 1962 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 | |
| Otis, Bass |
Bass Otis
(July 17, 1784 - November 3, 1861), was an early
American artist, inventor, and portrait painter. He painted hundreds of
portraits including many of the best known Americans of his day, and produced
the first American lithograph in 1819.
Life and work
Otis was
born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, the son of Josiah Otis, a... | 1784 - 1861 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
