Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willson, Mary Ann | 
This artist
was unknown until 1943, when a New York art gallery discovered a portfolio of
her drawings. Mary Ann Willson is now regarded as one
of the earliest American watercolorists, along with Eunice Pinney
of Connecticut.
An
anonymous letter written in 1850 and signed by "an admirer of art"
accompanied the drawings. It relates that Willson... | Born 1810 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| Williams, William |
William
Williams (1727 – 27 April 1791)[1] was an
English/American painter. He was born in Bristol, England. His family is
believed to have originated in Caerphilly, Wales just
across the Severn River from Bristol. He began living in Philadelphia around 1747
after time at sea. In Philadelphia he was instrumental in building America's
first... | 1727 - 1791 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| Willard, William | 1819 - 1904 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Williams, Henry | 1787 - 1830 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Willard, Archibald M. |
Archibald MacNeal Willard (August 22, 1836–October 11, 1918)
was an American painter who was born and raised in Bedford, Ohio.[1]
Willard
joined the 86th Ohio Infantry in 1863 and fought in the American Civil War.
During this time he painted several scenes from the war, and forged a
friendship with photographer James F. Ryder. Willard painted... | 1836 - 1918 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Wicks, Mary | Born 1843 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Whittredge, Worthington |
Thomas
Worthington Whittredge[1] (May 22, 1820 - February 25, 1910) was an American
artist of the Hudson River School. Whittredge was a highly regarded artist of
his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson River School artists
including Albert Bierstadt and Sanford Robinson Gifford. He traveled widely and
excelled at landscape painting,... | 1820 - 1910 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| White, Stanford |
Stanford
White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and
partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead
& White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms.
He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various
public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found to
this day... | 1853 - 1906 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Whitehorne, James | 1803 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| White, Edwin |
Edwin White
(born, South Hadley, Massachusetts 1817; died Saratoga Springs, New York 1877)
was an American painter who studied in Paris, Rome, and Florence and later
taught at the National Academy of Design, in New York.
Works by
White, mostly in storage, are in the collections of Yale; The Metropolitan
Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;... | 1817 - 1877 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
