Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lungren, Fernand Harvey | 
Painter and
illustrator Fernand Lungren
is best known for vibrantly colored images of the scenic wonders of the
American Southwest. Lungren was born in Hagerstown,
Maryland, but grew up in Toledo, Ohio. In 1876, he abandoned his studies in
mining engineering at the University of Michigan and went to Cincinnati. There,
painters Alfred Laurens... | 1857 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Lamb, A.A. |
No
documents about A. A. Lamb or other paintings by him have been discovered. His
sympathetic treatment of the subject of the National Gallery's painting
Emancipation Proclamation (1955.11.10) suggests he was a Northerner, perhaps
from New York, where he could have known the Henry K. Brown statue of George
Washington used as a model for the figure... | Born 1864 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Latrobe, John Hazelhurst Boneval | 1803 - 1891 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Lawson, Ernest |
Ernest
Lawson (March 22, 1873 – December 18, 1939) was a Canadian-American
painter and a member of The Eight, a group of artists which included the
group's leaders Robert Henri, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, Arthur B. Davies,
Maurice Prendergast, George Luks, and William J. Glackens. Though Lawson mostly
painted landscapes, he also did some... | 1873 - 1939 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Lenders, Emil W. | 1864 - 1934 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Lorenz, Richard |
While still
in his middle teens, Richard Lorenz studied sculpture in Germany. Later he
received an art scholarship (endowed by Franz Liszt) to attend the Academy of
Fine Arts in Weimar, Germany to study drawing. While there, he twice received
the school's highest award.
Lorenz was
recruited in Germany to come to America, and in the spring of... | 1858 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Low, William Hillock |
William
Hillock Low was a prominent force in the New York art world during the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known
primarily as a muralist, Low studied with the French neo-classicist painter,
Jean-Léon-Gérôme
during the 1870s. Although the artist created a number of works in the style of
his teacher, he eventually expanded his... | 1853 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Leyendecker, Joseph Christian | 1874 - 1951 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Leighton, Nicholas Winfield Scott |
Nicholas
Winfield Scott Leighton was a painter whose last known address was Boston,
MA. He was mainly a painter of
animals, and it was only by raising and trading horses that he was able to
pursue his studies. He studied
under Harrison Bird Brown and opened a studio in Boston in 1874.
He
exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1883,... | 1847 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Laux, August |
German born
August Laux achieved a considerable reputation in the
1870s for his frescoes and decorative paintings, but switched to genre scenes
and still lifes a decade later. His work, always
traditional in style, was highly regarded in his day but forgotten soon after
his death.
He was born
in the Pfalz area of the Rhineland in 1847 to... | 1847 - 1921 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
