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Dennis Miller Bunker (1861-1890) was an American Impressionist painter. Born in New York, Bunker enrolled in the National Academy of Design at the age of 15. He painted both portraits…
Read MoreEverett Shinn (1876-1953) was an American painter, illustrator, and muralist. Born in Woodstown, New Jersey, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1893 to 1897…
Read MoreTim Rollins was an artist, activist, and teacher from Pittsfield, Maine, born June 10th, 1955. Rollins studied fine art at the University of Maine and went on to earn a…
Read MoreJacob Marling was born in 1774. His artistic career as a painter spanned 38 years, from 1795 to 1833. Marling trained under James Cox (1751-1834), an eccentric English-born artist, for…
Read MoreJasper Francis Cropsey was born on February 18th, 1823, on his father’s farm in Rossville, Staten Island, New York. The eldest of eight children, Cropsey suffered sever childhood illness, and…
Read MoreHelen Maria Turner was a Kentucky-born, Louisiana raised American painter who specialized in portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and miniatures. Her media and technique varied throughout her life. Her work began…
Read MoreWilliam James Glackens was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 30th, 1870. He was the youngest of three children to Elizabether and Samuel Glackens, a clerk and cashier for the…
Read Morepka, Alabama, Fitzpatrick showed an interest in art from an early age. He attended the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1908 before taking classes at the Art Institute of…
Read MoreThe Asahel Curtis collection, consisting of 50,000 glass plate and nitrate negatives and prints, is a broad visual record of the early twentieth century in the Pacific Northwest. The images…
Read MoreEastman Johnson was born in Lovell, Maine, in 1824. His family moved to Augusta, and Eastman Johnson worked in lithography and draftsmanship by eighteen. He moved to Washington D.C. on…
Read MoreRoss Embrose Moffett was born on February 2nd, 1888 in Clearfield, Iowa. He began studying art at the Cummins School of Art in Des Moines, the Chicago Academy of Fine…
Read MoreCharles Henry Gifford (1839-1904) was an American painter and watercolorist who was a part of the Luminist movement during the mid-19th century. He was known for his nautical-themed paintings. Gifford…
Read MoreOne of America’s most acclaimed artists, Louis Comfort Tiffany, was born on February 18th, 1848 to Harriet Young and Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812–1902), the founder of the jewelry company Tiffany…
Read MoreCharles Willson Peale (1741-1827) was an American painter during the 18th century. He was a portrait painter during the American revolution who is remembered for painting a portrait of George…
Read MoreBetty Cleeland’s painting weaves together art and mathematics, exploring patterns and colors found both in textiles and in the natural world. She primarily works with oil paints and linen. Betty…
Read MoreCatharine Carter Critcher died at the age of 95, in a nursing home near Farmville, Virginia on Thursday, 11 June 1964. She was never married and had no children. Her…
Read MoreHugh MacRae Morton (February 19, 1921 – June 1, 2006) was a photographer and nature conservationist who developed Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina. Morton was a prolific photographer who took…
Read MoreAnsel Adams is perhaps America’s best-known photographer and environmentalist. His black & white images are seared into our minds, but his photos were a powerful force in his advocacy. Whether…
Read MoreHerman Maril was a nationally known artist who painted seascapes, interiors, and landscapes in a pure, lyrical, and profound style. Beginning in his teens and throughout his life, he pursued…
Read MoreStanton MacDonald-Wright was born on July 8th, 1890 in Charlottesville, Virginia to Archibald Davenport Wright and Annie van Vranken. Stanton grew up in Santa Monica, California where his father, also…
Read MoreAmerican painter and draughtsman Wayne Thiebaud was born in Mesa, Arizona. Thiebaud and his family moved a year later to Southern California, where he was in love with art from…
Read MoreRobert Rauschenberg was an American artist whose innovative and experimental work, particularly his Combines, would change the way art was perceived. His early work, along with that of Jasper Johns,…
Read MoreRobert Henri (born Robert Henry Cozad) was an American painter who was affiliated with the impressionist movement. He established a landmark show in 1908 that was entitled “The Eight” (after…
Read MoreJacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter; he was married to a fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Lawrence referred to his style as \”dynamic cubism,\”…
Read MoreJames Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 11, 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…
Read MoreMary Stevenson Cassatt (1844-1926) was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker. Born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania to a wealthy family, Cassatt traveled in Europe as part of her education before…
Read MoreGeorgia O’Keeffe is considered the mother of American Modernism. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she was not inspired by European artists and didn’t travel to the continent until later in…
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