Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Haberle, John |
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 - 1933 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Enneking, John J. |
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 - 1916 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Hart, James McDougal |
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 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Ehninger, John Whetten |
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 - 1889 | Anonymous | 10/20/2012 |
Cox, Kenyon |
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 - 1919 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Fuertes, Louis Agassiz |
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 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Cornoyer, Paul |
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 - 1923 | Anonymous | 05/26/2012 |
Goodwin, Philip R. |
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 - 1935 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
Cuneo, Rinaldo |
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 - 1939 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Gignoux, Regis-Francois |
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 - 1882 | Anonymous | 12/21/2012 |