Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Powers, Harriet | 
Harriet
Powers (October 29, 1837 – January 1, 1910) was
an African American slave, folk artist and quilt maker from rural Georgia. She
used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends, Bible
stories, and astronomical events on her quilts. Only two of her quilts have
survived: Bible Quilt 1886 and Pictorial Quilt 1898. Her quilts are... | 1837 - 1911 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Powell, William Henry |
William
Henry Powell (1823 - 1879), was an American artist from Ohio.
Powell is
known for a painting of the Battle of Lake Erie, of which one copy hangs in the
Ohio state capitol building and the other, in the United States Capitol. Powell
has a second piece of artwork displayed in the United States Capitol Rotunda,
the Discovery of the... | 1823 - 1879 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| Potts, William Sherman | 1876 - 1930 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
| Potthast, Edward Henry |
Edward
Henry Potthast (June 10, 1857 – March 9, 1927)
was an American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people
at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England.[1]
Life and work
He was born
in Cincinnati, Ohio. From June 10, 1879 to March 9, 1881 he studied with Thomas
Satterwhite Noble. He later... | 1857 - 1927 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |
| Potter, Edward Crowell | Died 1830 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Post, William Merritt | 1856 - 1935 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
| Porter, John S. | Active ca. 1820 | Anonymous | 03/30/2012 | |
| Pope, Alexander | 1849 - 1924 | Alexander Lusher | 03/18/2012 | |
| Polk, Charles Peale |
Charles
Peale Polk (March 17, 1767 – May 6, 1822) was a renowned American
portrait painter and the nephew of artist Charles Willson
Peale.
Biography
Polk was
born in Annapolis, Maryland, to Elizabeth Digby Peale
and Robert Polk. At age eight or ten (sources vary on the exact age), after
being orphaned, he was sent to Philadelphia to live with... | 1767 - 1822 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Pinney, Eunice |
Eunice Pinney is the earliest known American primitive
watercolorist. She was born into a large, wealthy family in Simsbury,
Connecticut. Well-educated, she and her seven siblings enjoyed performing plays
for neighbors, and Pinney's flair for drama surfaces
in the poses, gestures, and facial expressions of the people in her... | 1770 - 1849 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
