Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whistler, James McNeill | 
James
Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 — July 17, 1903) was an
American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral
allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for
art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a
stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail.[1]... | 1834 - 1903 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 |
| 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 |
| Whitehorne, James | 1803 - 1888 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Wicks, Mary | Born 1843 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Wiggins, John Carleton | John Carleton Wiggins (more commonly known as just Carleton Wiggins) was born to Guy and Adelaide Ludlum Wiggins on March 4, 1848, in Turners (now Harriman), N. Y., west of the Hudson River. Wiggins received his early education in Middletown N.Y., and later attended public schools in Brooklyn. As a youth, he took a job at an insurance company on Wall... | 1848 - 1932 | Anonymous | 12/24/2012 |
| Wiles, Irving R. |
Born in Utica, New York, in 1861 the portraitist Irving Ramsey Wiles first studied art with his father, landscape painter Lemuel Maynard Wiles (1826-1905). In 1879 he followed his father's advice and moved to New York. He entered the Art Students League, where he spent two years studying with Thomas W. Dewing, J. Carroll Beckwith, and William Merritt... | 1861 - 1948 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| 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 |
| Willard, William | 1819 - 1904 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
