Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyle, Howard | 
Howard Pyle
(March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and
author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware,
he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.
During 1894
he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and
Industry (now Drexel University), and after... | 1853 - 1911 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Puthuff, Hanson D. |
Hanson
Duvall Puthuff (August 21, 1875 – May 12, 1972)
was a landscape painter and muralist, born in Waverly, Missouri. Puthuff studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before
moving to Colorado in 1889 to study at University of Denver Art School. He
traveled to Los Angeles in 1903 and for 23 years worked as a commercial artist
painting billboards... | 1875 - 1972 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Prior, William Matthew |
William
Matthew Prior, the second son of Matthew Prior and Sarah Bryant Prior of
Duxbury, Massachusetts, was born in Bath, Maine, in 1806. His earliest portrait
is inscribed in the artist's hand, W. M. Prior's first portrait 1823. An
inscription on an 1824 portrait (privately owned in 1992), W. M. Prior, Painter
/ Formerly of Bath / 1824 / 3 piece... | 1806 - 1873 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Price, Samuel Woodson |
Samuel
Woodson Price (August 5, 1828 – January 22, 1918) was a portrait artist,
Union general in the American Civil War, and author.
Early life
Price was
born near Nicholasville, Kentucky to Daniel Branch and Elizabeth (Crockett)
Price. He began to show great aptitude for art at an early age, having set up a
studio in a Nicholasville hotel by... | 1828 - 1918 | Anonymous | 04/29/2012 |
| Preston, Jessie Goodwin | Born 1880 | Anonymous | 04/20/2012 | |
| Preston, James | 1873 - 1962 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
| Prentice, Levi Wells |
Levi Wells
Prentice (18 December 1851 – 28 November 1935) was an American still life
and landscape painter.
Prentice
was associated with the Hudson River School, a group of artists known
throughout art circles. According to the book Nature Staged by Barbara L.
Jones, Prentice followed a self-prescribed educational path, begun by the
Hudson River... | 1850 - 1935 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Prendergast, Maurice |
Maurice
Brazil Prendergast (October 10, 1858 – February 1, 1924) was an American
Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolor, and monotype. He
exhibited as a member of The Eight, though the delicacy of his compositions and
mosaic-like beauty of his style differed from the philosophy of the group.
Biography
Maurice
Prendergast and... | 1858 - 1924 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
| Pratt, Matthew |
Matthew
Pratt was born in Philadelphia in 1734. He served an apprenticeship with his
uncle James Claypoole, a limner and painter, from
1749 to 1755. Pratt opened a similar business which he interrupted with a brief
speculative trading voyage to Jamaica. When he returned to Philadelphia he
began to paint portraits, at which he proved very... | 1734 - 1805 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
| Prang, Louis | Louis Prang (March 12, 1824 – September 14, 1909) was an American printer, lithographer and publisher. He is sometimes known as the "father of the American Christmas card".
Youth
Prang was born in Breslau in Prussian Silesia. His father Jonas Louis Prang was a textile manufacturer and of French Huguenot origin. Because of health problems as a boy,... | 1824 - 1909 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
