Artists
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Church, Frederic Edwin | ![]()
Frederic
Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape
painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson
River School of American landscape painters. While committed to the natural
sciences, he was "always concerned with including a spiritual dimension in
his works."[1]
Biography
Beginnings
The... | 1826 - 1900 | Anonymous | 04/01/2012 |
Cole, Thomas | ![]()
Thomas Cole
(February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-born American
artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American
art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's Hudson River
School, as well as his own work, was known for its realistic and detailed
portrayal of American landscape and... | 1801 - 1848 | Anonymous | 04/01/2012 |
Crane, Bruce | ![]()
Bruce Crane
(1857– October 30, 1937, Bronxville, New York) was an American painter.
He joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 1900s. His most active period,
though, came after 1920, when for more than a decade he did oil sketches of
woods, meadows, and hills. He developed into a Tonalist painter under the
influence of Jean Charles Cazin at... | 1857 - 1937 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
Coleman, Charles Caryl | ![]()
Charles Caryl Coleman resided on the breathtaking Italian island of
Capri from 1886 until his death in 1928, becoming an individual leader in the
local art community. Coleman’s paintings from this period depict
Capri’s flawless beauty and reveal his devotion to the island’s
historical legacy.
Born in Buffalo, New York, Coleman to many... | 1840 - 1928 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
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 |
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 |
Cooper, Emma Lampert | ![]()
Emma
Lampert Cooper (1855 – July 30, 1920) was one of Rochester, New York's
most renowned painters. She was married to painter Colin Campbell Cooper
(1856–1937).
Born in
Nunda (village), New York, to Henry and Jenette (Smith) Lampert, she moved with
her family to Rochester by 1864. She graduated from Wells College in Aurora,
New York, in 1875.... | 1855 - 1920 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
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 |
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 |