Artists

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Durand, Asher Brownnotes
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 - 1886Anonymous05/15/2012
Decker, Josephnotes
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 - 1924Anonymous04/07/2012
Durrie, George Henrynotes
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 - 1863Anonymous04/08/2012
Duveneck, Franknotes
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 - 1919Anonymous05/15/2012
Doughty, Thomasnotes
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 - 1856Anonymous02/12/2012
Dewing, Thomas Wilmernotes
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 - 1938Anonymous05/15/2012
De Haven, Franklinnotes
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 - 1934Anonymous07/18/2012
Davies, Arthur Bowennotes
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 - 1928Anonymous05/15/2012
Dow, Arthur Wesleynotes
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 - 1922Anonymous05/15/2012
Deas, Charlesnotes
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 - 1867Anonymous10/13/2012
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