Artists

An itinerant painter who at various times was also a poet, linguist, composer, musician, music teacher, sculptor, and draftsman, Charles Granger was born on 13 June 1812 in Saco, Maine, a town just south of Portland where the Saco River meets the Atlantic. He was the son of Daniel Granger and Mary Jordan. Granger's artistic career began about...

Elizabeth (Eliza) Goodridge (1798–1882) was an American painter who specialized in miniatures. She was the younger sister of Sarah Goodridge, also an American miniaturist. Goodridge was born in Templeton, Massachusetts, the seventh child and fourth daughter of Ebenezer Goodridge and his wife Beulah Childs. Eliza's earliest miniatures date from the...

Philip R. Goodwin (September 16, 1881  – December 14, 1935) was an American painter and illustrator who specialized in depictions of wildlife, the outdoors, fishing, hunting and the Old American West. He provided illustrations for numerous books and magazines, as well as for commercial items, such as posters, advertisements and calendars. He is...

Robert Swain Gifford was born on a small island called Nonamesset, which adjoins Naushon in the chain of Elizabeth Islands off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. When Gifford was two years old his family moved to Fairhaven where his father was employed as a boatman and fisherman. Two famous New Bedford artists worked on the Fairhaven...

William James Glackens (March 13, 1870 – May 22, 1938) was an American realist painter. Glackens studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later moved to New York City, where he co-founded what came to be called the Ashcan School art movement. This group of artists, dubbed by the press "the Eight Independent Painters" or The...