Artists
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Demuth, Charles | ![]()
Charles
Demuth (November 8, 1883 – October 23, 1935) was an American
watercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of
painting known as Precisionism.
"Search
the history of American art," wrote Ken Johnson in the New York Times,
"and you will discover few watercolors more beautiful than those of
Charles Demuth.... | 1883 - 1935 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Drew, Clement | ![]()
Clement Drew (1806-1889) was an artist and "dealer in picture-frames" in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1] He specialized in marine paintings. He kept a studio on Court Street (ca.1840s-1860s),[2][3] Tremont Street (in the Boston Museum building, ca.1873), Copeland Street (ca.1888),[4] and Tremont Temple (1889).[5] He married Elizabeth... | 1806 - 1889 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
Davis, Charles Harold | ![]()
One of the most critically successful landscape painters of the turn of
the twentieth century, Charles Harold Davis created works in which nature
reflects subjective mood and emotion. Davis was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, the
son of a schoolteacher. An avid draftsman by his early teens, he studied
drawing for two years at Boston’s Museum of... | 1856 - 1933 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Darley, Felix Octavius | ![]()
Felix
Octavius Carr Darley (June 23, 1822 – March 27, 1888) often credited as
F. O. C. Darley, was an American painter in watercolor and illustrator, known
for his illustrations in works by well-known 19th century authors, including:
James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Mary Maples Dodge, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Washington Irving, George Lippard,... | 1822 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Dearth, Henry Golden | ![]()
Henry
Golden Dearth (22 April 1864 – 27 March 1918) was a distinguished
American painter[1] who studied in Paris and continued
to spend his summers in France painting in the Normandy region. He would return
to New York in winter, and became known for his moody paintings of the Long
Island area. Around 1912, Dearth changed his artistic style, and... | 1864 - 1918 | Anonymous | 07/27/2012 |
DeCamp, Joseph | ![]()
Joseph Rodefer DeCamp was a successful
portrait painter; he also created exquisite interior views with a soft-edged
luminosity, as well as landscapes characterized by the broken brushwork, bright
light and color, and contemporary subjects of impressionism. DeCamp began his art studies as a teenager at the McMicken School of Design in his native... | 1858 - 1923 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
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 |
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 |
Dickinson, Anson | ![]()
Anson Dickinson, a painter of miniature portraits, was born in Milton, Connecticut, in 1779. He was the eldest of ten children born to Oliver Dickinson Junior (1757-1847) and Anna Landon Dickinson (1760-1849). As a boy, Anson Dickinson was apprenticed to Litchfield silversmith Isaac Thompson. Little else is known about his early art training. He first... | 1779 - 1852 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 |
Dickinson, Daniel | 1795 - 1877 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |