Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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| Selinger, Emily Harris |  Emily Harris Selinger graduated from the Providence (Rhode Island) High School, then attended the Cooper Institute of Design in New York City. She also studied with Amalia Rocchi in Florence and Margaret Roosenboom in Holland. She married the painter, Jean Paul Selinger, in 1882. Emily Selinger was a painter, an author and poet, who was active in... | 1848 - 1927 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Sprague, Isaac | Isaac Sprague (September 5, 1811–1895) was a self-taught landscape, botanical, and ornithological painter. He was America's best known botanical illustrator of his day.
Sprague was born in Hingham, Massachusetts and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter.
In 1843, Sprague served as an assistant to John James Audubon on an ornithological... | 1811 - 1895 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
| Symons, George Gardner |
A landscape
and marine artist, George Symons was one of America's more noted plein-air painters who combined styles of impressionism and
realism. His works are cited for their energy and simplicity, and he often did
panoramic views.
He was born
in Chicago, Illinois in 1861, with the name of George Gardner Simon, but he
changed his last name to... | 1863 - 1930 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Shannon, Sir James Jebusa |
Sir James
Jebusa Shannon (1862 - 1923), Anglo-American artist, was born in Auburn, New
York, and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to Canada.
When he was
sixteen, he went to England, where he studied at South Kensington, and after
three years won the gold medal for figure painting. His portrait of the Hon.
Horatia Stopford , one of the... | 1862 - 1923 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Selinger, Jean Paul | Jean Paul Selinger (1850-1909) and Emily Selinger (1848-1927), husband and wife, had summer art studios at the Glen House and the Crawford House. Born in Boston, Jean Paul studied at the Lowell Institute and in 1875 he went to Germany to study at the Munich Academy with Wilhelm Leibl. Upon returning, he opened an art studio in Providence, Rhode... | 1850 - 1909 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Sharp, Joseph H. | 1859 - 1953 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
| Sullivan, M.A. | Active ca. 1868 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
| Sargent, Mary Newbold | 1826 - 1906 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
| Sommer, Otto | Born 1850 | Anonymous | 12/21/2012 | |
| Stark, Otto |
Otto Stark
(1859–1926) was an American Impressionist painter who was considered to
be a member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana artists. Stark's work most clearly
showed the influence of Impressionism, and he often featured children in his
work.
He began
his career as a commercial woodcarver's apprentice in Indianapolis until an
ankle injury... | 1859 - 1926 | Anonymous | 11/17/2012 |
