Artists
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Munger, Gilbert | ![]()
Gilbert
Davis Munger achieved great success in the nineteenth
century, painting landscapes of the newly discovered American West.
Biography
Gilbert
Davis Munger’s painting career can be divided
into three phases: artist-explorer painting the spectacular landscapes of
California, Oregon, Washington, and Utah; critically acclaimed... | 1837 - 1903 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Mosler, Henry | ![]()
Henry Mosler’s highly detailed scenes of peasant life in
the rural villages of the French province of Brittany appealed to his
contemporary American viewers for their material specificity and universal
themes. Mosler was a native of Silesia, Germany (now
Poland), son of a German-Jewish lithographic artist
who brought his family to the United... | 1841 - 1920 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Mowbray, H. Siddons | ![]()
Henry
Siddons Mowbray (August 5, 1858 – 1928) was an American artist.
Biography
He was born
of English parents at Alexandria, Egypt. Left an orphan, he was taken to
America by an uncle, who settled at North Adams, Massachusetts. After a year at
the United States Military Academy at West Point, he went to Paris and entered
the atelier of Leon... | 1858 - 1928 | Anonymous | 01/02/2013 |
Murphy, John Francis | ![]()
John Francis Murphy (December 11, 1853 - January 30, 1921), American landscape painter.
Biography
He was born at Oswego, New York and first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1876, and was made an associate in 1885 and a full academician two years later. He became a member of the Society of American Artists (1901) and of the American... | 1853 - 1921 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Myers, Jerome | ![]()
Jerome Myers (March 20, 1867 - June 19, 1940) was a U.S. artist and writer. Born in Petersburg, Virginia and raised in Philadelphia, Trenton and Baltimore, he spent his adult life in New York City. Jerome worked briefly as an actor and scene painter, then studied art at Cooper Union and the Art Students League where his main teacher was George de... | 1867 - 1940 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Murphy, Nelly Littlehale | ![]()
Born 1867,
died ca. 1942. Painter, illustrator, and etcher, noted for her watercolor
paintings of landscapes and flowers. Lived and exhibited in the Massachusetts
area. Nellie Littlehale married Herman Daniel Umbstaetter in 1893. In 1916, she married
again, to painter Hermann Dudley Murphy.
| 1867 - 1941 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Mount, Shepard Alonzo | ![]()
Shepard
Alonzo Mount was born in 1804 in the Long Island village of Setauket, one of
five children. His younger brother William Sidney Mount would become one of the
most acclaimed artists of his age. With Mount’s father’s death in
1814, his mother moved the family to the parental farm in Stony Brook. Shepard began his professional career... | 1804 - 1868 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
Mount, William Sidney | ![]()
William
Sidney Mount (November 26, 1807 – November 19, 1868) was an American
genre painter and contemporary of the Hudson River School.
Mount was
born in Setauket, New York and trained at the National Academy of Design in New
York. Although he started as a history painter, Mount moved to depicting scenes
from everyday life. Two of his more... | 1807 - 1868 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 |
Moore, Charles Herbert | ![]()
Artist,
professor, architectural historian and first Director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, Charles Herbert Moore was born on April
10, 1840 to Charles and Jane Maria Moore. He grew up in New York City, where he
attended public schools. Moore never attended college. He began a career as a
landscape painter in the 1850s, having studied at the... | 1840 - 1930 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
McConnell, George | ![]()
George McConnell was born in Steubenville, OH in 1852 and died in Portland, ME in 1929. He studied portraiture in Philadelphia and New York. He also studied landscape painting with George Inness and continue his art training at the Academy Julien in Paris.
In 1883, at the age of thirty-one, McConnell settled in Portland, Maine. He did... | 1852 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |