Artists

William Keith (November 18, 1838 – April 13, 1911) was a Scottish-American painter famous for his California landscapes. Early life Keith was born in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States in 1850. He lived in New York City, and became an apprentice wood engraver in 1856. He first traveled to the American West...

In Stones of Venice John Ruskin wrote, "what we want art to do for us is to stay what is fleeting . . immortalize the things that have no duration." [1] In large part, that is what has led Americans to rediscover the art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when artists believed that legitimate art could be created from the...

Charles Bird King (1785–1862) is a United States artist who is best known for his portraiture. In particular, the artist is notable for the portraits he painted of Native American delegates coming to Washington D.C., which were commissioned by government's Bureau of Indian Affairs. Biography Charles Bird King was born in Newport, Rhode Island...

Charles Wilson Knapp was a noted landscape artist of great ability.  He was born in Philadelphia in 1823 and spent most of his life in that city.   He worked primarily in Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, the Susquehanna River Valley, the area around the Delaware Water Gap, and the Berkshire Mountains.  He especially enjoyed painting...

Robert Koehler (November 28, 1850 - April 23, 1917) was a German-born painter and art teacher who spent most of his career in the United States of America. Biography Koehler was born in Hamburg; his family spelled their name Köhler until they moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1854. There he attended the historic German-English Academy. He...

Kidd was born in 1808, perhaps in Edinburgh. Nothing is known of his parentage or education, but he became a pupil of the Reverend John Thomson of Duddingston. He was a founder Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1826 and was elected a full Academician in 1829. In 1830 he was commissioned by John James Audubon to paint copies of one hundred...

Kirchner was born in Vienna in 1876 and later moved to Paris. He drew for La Vie Parisienne together with artists like Mucha, all of whom were greatly influenced by the work of British artist Aubrey Beardsley, who had created an 'art nouveau' style of his own. Mucha went on to concentrate on posters and Kirchner was drawing for postcards by 1901....