Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durand, Asher Brown | 
Asher Brown
Durand (August 21, 1796 – September 17, 1886) was an American painter of
the Hudson River School.
Early life
Durand was born
in and eventually died in Maplewood, New Jersey (then called Jefferson
Village), the eighth of eleven children; his father was a watchmaker and a
silversmith.
Durand was
apprenticed to an engraver from 1812... | 1796 - 1886 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| 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 |
| Durrie, George Henry |
Born in New Haven in 1820, the son of a Connecticut stationer, George Henry Durrie remained in that city virtually his entire life. Married to a choirmaster's daughter, Sarah Perkins, in 1841, he immersed himself in the quiet pursuits of family and church. While he never achieved the fame of the most renowned nineteenth century American landscape... | 1820 - 1863 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
| Duveneck, Frank |
Frank
Duveneck (October 9, 1848 – January 3, 1919) was an American figure and
portrait painter.
Youth
Duveneck
was born in Covington, Kentucky, the son of German immigrant Bernard Decker. Decker
died when Frank was only a year old and his widow remarried Joseph Duveneck. By
the age of fifteen Frank had begun the study of art under the tutelage... | 1848 - 1919 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Doughty, Thomas |
Thomas Doughty was born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1793, and lived there until 1828. Although little is known about his formal education, he apparently showed a strong talent for drawing from an early age. When he was fifteen or sixteen Doughty was apprenticed to a leather worker, and by 1814 he was listed in the Philadelphia directory as a... | 1793 - 1856 | Anonymous | 02/12/2012 |
| Dewing, Thomas Wilmer |
Thomas Dewing was born on May 4, 1851, in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. As a child he was interested in both drawing and in playing the violin; this early interest in music would later reappear in the themes of many of his paintings. By 1872, after a period of apprenticeship in a lithography shop, Dewing was listing his profession as "artist." He... | 1851 - 1938 | 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 |
| Davies, Arthur Bowen |
Arthur Bowen Davies (September 26, 1863 – October 24, 1928) was an avant-garde American artist and patron.
Biography
He was born in Utica, New York and studied at the Chicago Academy of Design from 1879 to 1882. He briefly attended the Art Institute of Chicago and then moved to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League.
Davies was a... | 1862 - 1928 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| 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 |
| Deas, Charles |
Charles Deas (December 22, 1818 – March 23, 1867), was an American painter noted for his oil paintings of
Native Americans and fur trappers of the mid-19th century.
Biography
Charles Deas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attempted,
and failed, to obtain an appointment to the United States Military Academy at
West Point, New York.[1]... | 1818 - 1867 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
