Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper, Colin Campbell | 
Colin
Campbell Cooper, Jr. (March 8, 1856 – November 6, 1937) was an American
Impressionist painter, perhaps most renowned for his architectural paintings,
especially of skyscrapers in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. An avid
traveler, he was also known for his paintings of European and Asian landmarks,
as well as natural landscapes,... | 1856 - 1937 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Codman, Charles |
Charles
Codman (circa 1800–1842) was a landscape painter of Portland, Maine. His
art is featured at the Portland Museum of Art as mature, fine early American
landscape painting.
Codman was
probably from Boston and was apprenticed to the ornamental painter, John Ritto
Penniman. Codman began as a decorative painter and had no formal training... | 1800 - 1842 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Deas, Charles |
Charles Deas (December 22, 1818 – March 23, 1867), was an American painter noted for his oil paintings of
Native Americans and fur trappers of the mid-19th century.
Biography
Charles Deas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attempted,
and failed, to obtain an appointment to the United States Military Academy at
West Point, New York.[1]... | 1818 - 1867 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Demuth, Charles |
Charles
Demuth (November 8, 1883 – October 23, 1935) was an American
watercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of
painting known as Precisionism.
"Search
the history of American art," wrote Ken Johnson in the New York Times,
"and you will discover few watercolors more beautiful than those of
Charles Demuth.... | 1883 - 1935 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Drew, Clement |
Clement Drew (1806-1889) was an artist and "dealer in picture-frames" in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1] He specialized in marine paintings. He kept a studio on Court Street (ca.1840s-1860s),[2][3] Tremont Street (in the Boston Museum building, ca.1873), Copeland Street (ca.1888),[4] and Tremont Temple (1889).[5] He married Elizabeth... | 1806 - 1889 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Davis, Charles Harold |
One of the most critically successful landscape painters of the turn of
the twentieth century, Charles Harold Davis created works in which nature
reflects subjective mood and emotion. Davis was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, the
son of a schoolteacher. An avid draftsman by his early teens, he studied
drawing for two years at Boston’s Museum of... | 1856 - 1933 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Granger, Charles Henry |
An
itinerant painter who at various times was also a poet, linguist, composer,
musician, music teacher, sculptor, and draftsman, Charles Granger was born on
13 June 1812 in Saco, Maine, a town just south of Portland where the Saco River
meets the Atlantic. He was the son of Daniel Granger and Mary Jordan.
Granger's
artistic career began about... | 1812 - 1893 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Eaton, Charles Warren |
Charles
Warren Eaton (1857–1937) was an American artist best known for his
tonalist landscapes. He earned the nickname "the pine tree painter"
for his numerous depictions of Eastern White Pine trees.
Eaton was
born in Albany, New York to a family of limited means. He starting working at
age nine, and worked at a dry goods store in Albany into... | 1857 - 1937 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Evans, De Scott |
De Scott
Evans (March 28, 1847 – July 4, 1898) was an American painter known for
working in a number of genres. Raised in Indiana, he spent much of his career
in Ohio and then moved to New York City. His posthumous reputation is largely
based on a number of trompe l'oeil still lifes that have been attributed to
him.
Life
David Scott
Evans was... | 1847 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Gay, Edward |
Edward Gay
was a landscape painter who really didn't fit into any particular category or school. He
learned technique from several artists with whom he studied, but was not
markedly influenced by them. His paintings depicted what he saw - no more, no
less. He did not romanticize or idealize.
Born in Ireland in 1837, Gay came to
America with... | 1837 - 1928 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
