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 |
| Perry, Enoch Wood |
Enoch Wood
Perry, Jr. (1831–1915) was a painter from the United States.
Life
Perry was
born in Boston on July 31, 1831. His father was Enoch Wood Perry, and mother
was Hannah Knapp Dole. His maternal grandparents were Samuel Dole and Katherine
Wigglesworth.[1] The family moved to New Orleans with
his family as a teenager in 1848 and attended... | 1831 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Potter, Edward Crowell | Died 1830 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| 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 |
| Pine, Theodore E. | 1827 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Peale, Mary |
Mary Jane
Peale (born New York City, February 16, 1827 - died Pottsville, Pennsylvania,
November, 1902) was an American painter. She was the child of Rubens and Eliza
Burd Patterson Peale, the only daughter among seven children, and was the
granddaughter of Charles Willson Peale. She was among the last members of the
Peale family to paint... | 1827 - 1902 | Anonymous | 03/21/2012 |
| Park, Linton |
Linton
Park, the ninth and last child of John and Mary (Lang) Park, was born on 16
November 1826 in Marion (now Marion Center), a small town in western
Pennsylvania which was originally settled in 1799 by Park's grandfather. Little
is known about Linton Park's early life, but it is generally assumed that he
worked in his father's gristmill as a... | 1826 - 1906 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Parsons, Charles | 1821 - 1910 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
