Artists
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Johnston, David Claypoole | ![]()
David Claypoole Johnston (25 March 1798 – 8 November 1865) was an 19th-century American cartoonist, printmaker, painter and actor from Boston, Massachusetts. He was the first natively trained American to master all the various graphic arts processes of lithography, etching, metal plate engraving, and wood engraving.[1][2]
In 1815 Johnston has... | 1799 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Johnson, Joshua | ![]()
Joshua
Johnson (c.1763-c.1824) was an American biracial painter from the Baltimore
area. Johnson, often viewed as the first person of color to make a living as a
painter in the United States, is known for his naïve paintings of
prominent Maryland residents.
Mysterious life
It was not
until 1939 that the identity of the painter of elite 19th... | 1763 - 1824 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Jongers, Alphonse | 1872 - 1945 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
Jamieson, Bernice Evelyn | ![]() An artist and teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1940, Bernice Jamieson was also a curator of New Jersey painters for the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton from the mid 1940s to the 1960s.
Source:
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art" | 1898 - 1977 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Johnson, Frank Tenney | ![]()
Frank Tenney Johnson (26 June 1874–1 January 1939) was a
painter of the american
west, and he popularized a style of painting cowboys which became known as
"The Johnson Moonlight Technique". Somewhere on the Range is an
example of Johnson's moonlight technique. To paint his paintings he used
knives, fingers and brushes.
Biography
Early... | 1874 - 1939 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Jones, Francis Coates | ![]()
Throughout
a varied career that embraced mural painting and interior design as well as
easel painting, Francis Coates Jones pursued the perennial theme of women and
children in intimate settings. Jones was born in Baltimore, son of a successful
businessman. Although his older brother, Hugh Bolton Jones (1848–1927),
was a landscape painter,... | 1857 - 1932 | Anonymous | 06/18/2012 |
Johansen, John Christen | 1876 - 1964 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 | |
Jefferys, Charles William | ![]() Charles William Jefferys (August 25, 1869 – October 8, 1951) was a Canadian painter, illustrator, author, and teacher best known as a historical illustrator.
Biography
Born in Rochester, England, Jefferys arrived in Toronto, Ontario (after living in Philadelphia and Hamilton, Ontario) with his family around 1880. After attending school, he... | 1869 - 1951 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 |
Juergens, Alfred | 1866 - 1934 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 |