Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Craig, Thomas Bigelow |
Thomas
Bigelow Craig (1849–1924) was an American landscape painter[1] from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] He is known for his paintings depicting cows
(and occasionally sheep[3]) in summer environments.[3][4] Craig's landscapes
often featured meadows and streams.[4] The animals in his earlier paintings did
not take up a large part of the canvas... | 1849 - 1924 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Cranch, Caroline Amelia | 1853 - 1931 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Cranch, John | 1807 - 1891 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Crane, Frank | 1857 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Cranstone, Lefevre James | Died 1860 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Cushman, George Hewitt |
George
Hewitt Cushman (June 5, 1814 in Windham, Connecticut-August 3, 1876 in Jersey
City Heights, New Jersey), a top American engraver and painter of miniature
paintings and portraits of his time (second only to Edward Greene Malbone), turned early to these professions after family
financial misfortunes prevented him from entering West Point and... | 1814 - 1876 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Cummings, Thomas Seir |
Thomas Seir Cummings (1804-94) was an American miniature painter
and author, born at Bath, England. He came to New York early in life and
studied there with Henry Inman. He painted miniatures in water color, and many
of his sitters were well-known contemporaries of the artist. In 1826 he helped
to found the National Academy of Design, was its... | 1804 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Cropsey, Jasper Francis |
Jasper Francis Cropsey (February 18, 1823 – June 22, 1900) was an important American landscape artist of the Hudson River School.
Biography
Cropsey was born on his father Jacob Rezeau Cropsey's farm in Rossville on Staten Island, New York, the oldest of eight children. As a young boy, Cropsey had recurring periods of poor health. While absent from... | 1823 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
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 |
Caliga, Isaac Henry | 1857 - 1934 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
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 |
Chappel, William P. | Active ca. 1869 - 1870 | Anonymous | 06/02/2012 | |
Church, Frederick Stuart |
Frederick
Stuart Church (1842–1924) was an American artist, working mainly as an
illustrator and especially known for his (often allegorical) depiction of
animals.
Biography
He was born
in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His father was an important figure in politics as
well as a well-known lawyer. At the age of 13 he left school and took a job at
the... | 1842 - 1924 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 |
Couse, Eanger Irving |
Eanger Irving Couse (1866–1936) was an American artist and a founding member and first president of the Taos Society of Artists. He is noted for paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico, and the American Southwest. His house and studio in Taos have been preserved as the Couse/Sharp Historic Site, which is listed on the National Register of Historic... | 1866 - 1936 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 |
Currier, Nathaniel |
Nathaniel
Currier (March 27, 1813 – November 20, 1888) was an American
lithographer, who headed the company Currier & Ives with James Ives.
Early years
Currier was
born in Roxbury, Massachusetts to Nathaniel and Hannah Currier. He attended
public school until age fifteen, when he was apprenticed to the Boston printing
firm of William and... | 1813 - 1888 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
Carlisle, Mary Helen | 1869 - 1925 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 | |
Carlson, John Fabian | 1875 - 1945 | Anonymous | 10/21/2012 | |
Clarke, C. F. | Born 19th century | Anonymous | 12/05/2012 | |
Clark, Alvan |
Remembered
widely for his pioneering work in optics and astronomy, Alvan
Clark is less well known as an artist, although he is thought to have executed
some 500 oil portraits and miniatures during his lifetime. Clark was born in in 1804 in Ashfield, Massachusetts,
where he spent his early years on his father's farm, working at the family
mill.... | 1804 - 1887 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |
Chandler, William Henry | 1854 - 1928 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
Craig, William C. | William C. Craig was born in Ireland in 1829. Primarily a watercolorist, he came to the United States in 1863. In 1866 he was one of the founding members of the American Society of Painters in Water Colors along with William Hart and Samuel Colman. He painted mostly in the northeast in the style of the Hudson River School painters.
He exhibited... | 1829 - 1875 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
Custer, Edward L. | Edward L. Custer was a portrait, animal, and landscape painter. He was born in Basel, Switzerland, on January 24, 1837. Custer came to the United States in 1846 or 1847 with his family at about the age of ten, living first in Syracuse, NY and later in Manchester, NH. His father became a doctor while in Manchester.
He went to Germany to study... | 1837 - 1881 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
Copley, John Singleton |
John Singleton Copley (1738[1] – 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts, and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects. His paintings were innovative in their tendency to... | 1738 - 1815 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
Champney, Benjamin |
Benjamin Champney (November 20, 1817[1] – December 11, 1907) was
a painter whose name has become synonymous with White Mountain art of the 19th
century. He began his training as a lithographer under celebrated marine artist
Fitz Henry Lane at Pendleton's Lithography shop in Boston. Most art historians
consider him the founder of the "North Conway... | 1817 - 1907 | Anonymous | 01/05/2013 |
Clark, Kate Freeman | Kate Freeman Clark was the daughter of Edward Clark, an attorney in Vicksburg, Mississippi and Cary Freeman Clark, a descendant of the politically prominent Walthall family of Holly Springs.
Shortly after her father's death in 1885, she enrolled in the Gardiner Institute, a finishing school for girls. Exploring the art section of the World Columbian... | 1875 - 1957 | Anonymous | 04/18/2013 |