Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decker, Joseph | 
Although Joseph Decker never achieved an important artistic reputation during his lifetime, his varied career encompassed more than thirty productive years. Born to a carpenter and his wife in 1853 in Wurtemberg, Germany, Decker emigrated with his family to America at the age of fourteen. He was first apprenticed to a Brooklyn house painter, then... | 1853 - 1924 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 |
| Dannat, William Turner | 1853 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Defrees, Thaddeus | Thaddeus Defrees was born in Boston, MA on September 27, 1855. His parents were Georgianna and William, a machinist.
Defrees's style of painting shows strong influence of the French Barbizon School. He was active in the White Mountains from at least 1877 until his death. He exhibited at the Boston Art Club in January, 1878. He was... | 1855 - 1888 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Denslow, William Wallace |
William Wallace Denslow (5 May 1856 – 27 May 1915) – usually credited as W. W. Denslow – was an illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.[1] Denslow was an editorial cartoonist with a strong interest in politics, which has fueled... | 1856 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| 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 |
| De Haven, Franklin |
Franklin DeHaven (1856 – 1934) was born in Bluffton, Indiana on December 26, 1856. Nothing seems to have been recorded about his early personal or artistic life prior to his arrival in New York City in 1886 where he became a student of George H. Smillie who taught landscape painting in a classical, tonalist style.
DeHaven enjoyed early success with... | 1856 - 1934 | Anonymous | 07/18/2012 |
| Dow, Arthur Wesley |
An
innovative artist and influential art theorist and teacher, Arthur Wesley Dow
was a proponent of pure design principles rather than literal naturalism as the
basis for art. Dow was a native of Ipswich, Massachusetts, whose flat coastal
landscape and subtly shifting light proved a powerful source of aesthetic
inspiration. He studied art privately... | 1857 - 1922 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| 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 |
| Daingerfield, Elliott | 1859 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Duvall, Fannie Eliza | 1861 - 1934 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
