Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duncanson, Robert Scott | 
Robert Scott Duncanson (1821 – December 21, 1872) was born in Seneca County, New York in 1821.[1] Duncanson’s father was a Canadian of Scottish descent and his mother was an African American, thus making him “a freeborn person of color.”[2] Duncanson, an artist who is relatively unknown today, painted America, both physically and figuratively,... | 1821 - 1872 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Gifford, Robert Swain |
Robert
Swain Gifford was born on a small island called Nonamesset,
which adjoins Naushon in the chain of Elizabeth
Islands off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. When Gifford was two years
old his family moved to Fairhaven where his father was employed as a boatman
and fisherman.
Two famous
New Bedford artists worked on the Fairhaven... | 1840 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Colman, Samuel |
Samuel
Colman (March 4, 1832 – March 26, 1920) was an American painter, interior
designer, and writer, probably best remembered for his paintings of the Hudson
River.
Born in Portland,
Maine, Colman moved to New York City with his family as a child. His father
opened a bookstore, attracting a literate clientele that may have influenced
Colman's... | 1832 - 1920 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
| Eastman, Seth |
Seth
Eastman (1808–1875) and his second wife Mary Henderson Eastman (1818
– 24 February 1887[1]) were instrumental in recording Native American
life. Eastman was an artist and West Point graduate who served in the US Army,
first as a mapmaker and illustrator. He had two tours at Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory; during the second,... | 1808 - 1875 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Eakins, Susan Macdowell |
Susan
Hannah Macdowell Eakins (September 21, 1851 – December 27, 1938[1]) was
an American artist and wife of Thomas Eakins. She was the fifth of eight
children of a Philadelphia engraver, well known in the artistic community. She
was a student of Eakins while he was an instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts, and married him in... | 1851 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Gifford, Sanford Robinson |
Sanford
Robinson Gifford (July 10, 1823 – August 29, 1880) was an American
landscape painter and one of the leading members of the Hudson River School.
Gifford's landscapes are known for their emphasis on light and soft atmospheric
effects, and he is regarded as a practitioner of Luminism,
an offshoot style of the Hudson River School.
Not to... | 1823 - 1880 | Anonymous | 12/21/2012 |
| Harrison, T. Alexander |
Thomas
Alexander Harrison (January 17, 1853, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania –
October 13, 1930) was an American marine painter who spent much of his career
in France.
Career
He studied at
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, then
joined a United States government survey expedition on the Pacific coast.
Beginning in 1878, he... | 1853 - 1930 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Glackens, William |
William
James Glackens (March 13, 1870 – May 22, 1938) was an American realist
painter.
Glackens
studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later moved to New
York City, where he co-founded what came to be called the Ashcan School art
movement. This group of artists, dubbed by the press "the Eight
Independent Painters" or The... | 1870 - 1938 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
| Hart, William |
William
Hart (March 31, 1823 – June 17, 1894), was a
Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter, and Hudson River School
artist. His younger brother, James McDougal Hart, was also a Hudson River School
artist, and the two painted similar subjects. He studied under Jules-Joseph
Lefebvre.
Biography
Hart was
born in Paisley, Scotland, and... | 1823 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Dunton, William Herbert |
William Herbert Dunton, known later in life as “Buck,” was born in Augusta, Maine, in 1878. His lifelong passion for the outdoors was nurtured from an early age by his grandfather, who took him on expeditions, teaching him about hunting and fishing. Drawing the outdoors followed naturally. As a child, Dunton was self-taught, developing a precise... | 1878 - 1936 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
