No products in the cart.
American
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. Like many children growing up during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, Raphael wanted to…
Read More Andrew Winter was born in Sindi, Estonia, on April 7, 1892, as Andres Jüri Winter. It is unclear when he anglicized his name. At the outbreak of World War I,…
Read More Benjamin Russell (1804-1885) was an American painter known for his nautical paintings and watercolors. Russell spent his youth in New Bedford, Massachusetts. His father was a whaler, so Russell would…
Read More John Marin was born on December 23, 1870, in Rutherford, New Jersey. After his mother died just over a week after his birth, he went to live with his grandparents…
Read More Maurice Brazil Prendergast was a modernist and post-impressionist American painter who adapted the styles of many prolific European artists to create his own colorful, tapestry-like works. Maurice Brazil Prendergast was…
Read More Peter Dean (b. 1934 – d. 1993) was a German – American artist who rejected the minimalist movement that was becoming popular during his time in favor of embracing the…
Read More Born in Lincolnshire, England, Thomas Sully was the youngest of 9 children born to his parents, who were both stage actors. The family emigrated to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1792,…
Read More Edward Hicks was born in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, in 1780, in the midst of the American Revolution. The war caused his family significant financial losses and social isolation, as his grandfather…
Read More Richard Buckner Gruelle was born on February 22nd, 1851, in Cynthiana, Kentucky. His family moved to Arcola, Illinois when he was young, so that is where he spent his early…
Read More
A second generation Hudson River School landscape artist, Robert S. Duncanson was one of the earliest African American artists to gain prominence. Duncanson was known for his abolitionist political views,…
Read More George Caleb Bingham’s history is so entwined with Missouri that he is called “the Missouri artist.” Known for his Luminist works – paintings filled with a glowing light—he captured what…
Read More George Hitchcock (1850-1913) was an American painter. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to a well-off family, Hitchcock originally intended to become a lawyer. He studied at Brown University before attending…
Read More George Benjamin Luks was an American painter and cartoonist. He also became one of the founding members of the artist group, The Eight. George Benjamin Luks was born in a…
Read More Maurice Sterne’s art was informed by his global travel, drawing in different cultural motifs and styles of artists worldwide into his work. Maurice Sterne was born in Latvia on August…
Read More Willard LeRoy Metcalf, regarded as the “poet laureate of the New England hills” was born in Massachusetts on July 1, 1858 to working class parents. He first worked as an…
Read More
William Rice (1777-1847) was an American ornamental painter best known for his signs. Born in Petersham, Massachusetts, he and his family moved to Worcester in the 1790s. In 1806, he…
Read More Timothy Hursley (1955-present) is an American architectural photographer. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Hursley started to apprentice in Architectural Photography in 1972 with his neighbor, Hungarian photographer Balthazar Korab. Hursley moved…
Read More William Trost Richards (1833-1905) was an American painter. Born in Philadelphia, he showed an interest in art from an early age. In order to help support his family financially, he…
Read More William Holdbrook Beard (1824-1900) was an American painter best known for his paintings of animals in the role of human figures. Born in Painesville, Ohio, he painted with his older…
Read More Timothy O’Sullivan (1840-1882) was an American photographer. Raised in New York, by 1860 he was an apprentice in Mathew Brady’s Fulton Street gallery. In 1861, he joined Brady’s team of…
Read More Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) was an American painter born in Lumberville, Pennsylvania. He was trained by painter Edward Hicks, whose influence can be seen in his early portraits and genre…
Read More Dan Weiner was born in New York City on October 12th, 1919, in an immigrant, blue-collar family in East Harlem. Weiner became interested in photography at fifteen when his uncle…
Read More Roger Brown (1941-1997) was an American artist and art collector. Born in Hamilton and raised in Opelika, Alabama, he came from a deeply religious family of the Church of Christ.…
Read More George Inness, Sr. (1825-1894) was an American landscape painter. Born in Newburgh, New York but raised in Newark, New Jersey, Inness’s youth was marked by illness, as he suffered from…
Read More Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) was an American painter and inventor. Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts to the distinguished Reverend Jedidiah Morse, Morse attended Yale College (now Yale University) in Connecticut…
Read More Arthur Bowen Davies was an avant-garde artist whose work, reminiscent of 19th-century romanticism, formed a critical bridge between 19th-century European art and 20th-century American modernism. Arthur Bowen Davies was born…
Read More Best known for her rendering of flowers, Maria Oakey Dewing began her career at 17, painting still lifes and portraits early on. She studied at Cooper Union School of Design…
Read More