Artists

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Haberle, Johnnotes
John Haberle was born in 1856 in New Haven, Connecticut, to Swiss immigrant parents. At age fourteen he left school to apprentice for a bookplate designer and engraver, where he learned the precision of hand-and-eye coordination necessary for detailed representation. He also worked at Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History, painting...
1856 - 1933Anonymous05/16/2012
Enneking, John J.notes
When Enneking was orphaned at the age of 16, he left his father's farm to live with an aunt.  His first art lessons, taken at Mount St. Mary's College in Cincinnati, were interrupted when he enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War.  Severely wounded in action and discharged from service, Enneking eventually made his way to Boston to...
1841 - 1916Anonymous05/15/2012
Hart, James McDougalnotes
James McDougal Hart (May 10, 1828 – October 24, 1901), was a Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter of the Hudson River School. His older brother, William Hart, was also a Hudson River School artist, and the two painted similar subjects. Hart was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, and was taken to America with his family in early youth....
1828 - 1901Anonymous05/19/2012
Ehninger, John Whettennotes
John Whetten Ehninger (July 22, 1827 New York City - January 22, 1889 Saratoga, New York) was a United States painter and etcher. Biography He graduated from Columbia University in 1847. He was a pupil of Couture in Paris 1848-1849, and afterward studied at Düsseldorf and other art centres 1851-1852. Among his paintings, which include landscape...
1827 - 1889Anonymous10/20/2012
Cox, Kenyonnotes
Kenyon Cox (October 27, 1856 – March 17, 1919) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, writer, and teacher. Cox was an influential and important early instructor at the Art Students League of New York. He was the designer of the League's logo, whose motto is Nulla Dies Sine Linea or No Day Without a Line. Biography He was born in...
1856 - 1919Anonymous05/15/2012
Fuertes, Louis Agassiznotes
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (7 February 1874 Ithaca, New York – 22 August 1927 Unadilla) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist. Biography Fuertes was the son of Estevan and Mary Stone Perry Fuertes. He decided to concentrate on painting birds as a career after meeting Elliott Coues in 1894 while on a trip to Washington, D.C. with the...
1874 - 1927Anonymous05/15/2012
Cornoyer, Paulnotes
Paul Cornoyer is world famous for his paintings of New York City and its suburbs. This painter-teacher was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1864 and died in East Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1923 (where he moved in1917). Cornoyer first studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Art (1881) and first exhibited in 1887. He went to Paris in 1889 and lived...
1864 - 1923Anonymous05/26/2012
Goodwin, Philip R.notes
Philip R. Goodwin (September 16, 1881  – December 14, 1935) was an American painter and illustrator who specialized in depictions of wildlife, the outdoors, fishing, hunting and the Old American West. He provided illustrations for numerous books and magazines, as well as for commercial items, such as posters, advertisements and calendars. He is...
1882 - 1935Anonymous05/16/2012
Cuneo, Rinaldonotes
Rinaldo Cuneo (July 2, 1877 – December 27, 1939), dubbed the Painter of San Francisco, was an American artist known for his landscape paintings and murals. Early life and education Rinaldo Cuneo was born in San Francisco on July 2, 1877,[1][note 1] part of an Italian American family of artists and musicians. Rinaldo was the second of...
1877 - 1939Anonymous05/18/2012
Gignoux, Regis-Francoisnotes
Régis François Gignoux (1816–1882) was a French painter who was active in the United States from 1840 to 1870. He was born in Lyon, France and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under the French historical painter Hippolyte Delaroche, who inspired Gignoux to turn his talents toward landscape painting.[1] Gignoux arrived in the United States from...
1816 - 1882Anonymous12/21/2012
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