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Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893 - 1967) - United States (Ashtabula)
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (April 9, 1893 - January 10, 1967) was an American painter and visionary artist, known for his passionate watercolors of nature scenes and townscapes. His paintings are in the collections of many major museums in the USA and have been the subject of exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Amer...... |
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Elmer Bischoff (1916 - 1991) - United States (Berkeley)
Elmer Nelson Bischoff (July 9, 1916 – March 2, 1991) was a visual artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post-World War II generation of artists who started as abstract painters and found their way back to figurative art. Elmer Bischoff, second child of John and Elna (née Nelson...... |
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Charles Peale Polk (1767 - 1822) - United States (Annapolis)
Charles Peale Polk (March 17, 1767 – May 6, 1822) was a renowned American portrait painter and the nephew of artist Charles Willson Peale. Polk was born in Annapolis, Maryland, to Elizabeth Digby Peale and Robert Polk. At age eight or ten (sources vary on the exact age), after being orphaned, he was sent to Philadelphia to live with his uncle and s...... |
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Peter Hurd (1904 - 1984) - United States (Roswell)
Peter Hurd (February 22, 1904 - July 9, 1984) was an American painter who lived and worked in San Patricio, New Mexico. He is equally acclaimed for his western landscapes and his portraits. He studied under the famous illustrator NC Wyeth and was married to Wyeth’s eldest daughter, Henriette Wyeth, also an accomplished painter. Peter originally att...... |
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Gene Davis (1920 - 1985) - United States (Washington)
Gene Davis (August 22, 1920 - April 6, 1985) was an American Color Field painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color. Davis was born in Washington D.C. in 1920 and spent nearly all his life there. Before he began to paint in 1949, he worked as a sportswriter, covering the Washington Redskins and other local teams. Workin...... |
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David Park (1911 - 1960) - United States (Boston)
David Park (March 17, 1911 – September 20, 1960) was an American painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in painting during the 1950s. David Park was born in Boston, the son of Mary Turner and Charles Edward Park. He attended school in Connecticut and in 1928 moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Otis Art Institute. A year lat...... |
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Maynard Dixon (1875 - 1946) - United States (Fresno)
Maynard Dixon (January 24, 1875 – November 11, 1946) was a 20th-century American artist whose body of work focused on the American West. He was married for a time to American photographer Dorothea Lange. Dixon was born in Fresno, California, into a family of aristocratic Virginia Confederates who had found a new home there after the American Civil ...... |
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Jacob Kainen (1909 - 2002) - United States (Waterbury)
Jacob Kainen (December 7, 1909 – March 19, 2001) was an American painter and printmaker. He is also known as an art historian, writing books on John Baptist Jackson (US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1962) and the etchings of Canaletto (Smithsonian Press, Washington, DC, 1967). In addition, Kainen was a collector of German Expressionis...... |
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Walter Emerson Baum (1884 - 1956) - United States (Sellersville)
Walter Emerson Baum (December 14, 1884 – July 12, 1956) was an American artist and educator active in the Bucks and Lehigh County areas of Pennsylvania in the United States. In addition to being a prolific painter, Baum was also responsible for the founding of the Baum School of Art and the Allentown Art Museum. Born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, ...... |
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Clinton Adams (1918 - 2002) - United States (Glendale)
Clinton Adams (December 11, 1918 – May 13, 2002) was an American artist and art historian. Adams was born in Glendale, California. He worked in the art department of the University of California, Los Angeles, but eventually left to serve in the military. He returned to UCLA in 1946. From 1961 to 1976, he was the Dean of the University of New Mexico...... |
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Will Barnet (1911 - 2012) - United States (Beverly)
Social Realism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Surrealism, Expressionism, Realism
Will Barnet (May 25, 1911 – November 13, 2012) was an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds. Born in 1911 in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet knew by the age of ten that he wanted to be an artist. As a ...... |
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Walter Launt Palmer (1854 - 1932) - United States (Albany)
Walter Launt Palmer (1854, Albany, New York – 1932, Albany, New York) was an American Impressionist painter. Palmer's father Erastus Dow Palmer was a prominent sculptor, and their Palmer residence was frequented by his father's friends, notably landscape painter Frederick E. Church. Palmer began his formal artistic training under Charles Loring Ell...... |
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Ceri Giraldus Richards (1903 - 1971) - United States (Dunvant)
Ceri Giraldus Richards, CBE (6 June 1903 – 9 November 1971) was a British painter, print-maker and maker of reliefs. Richards was born in 1903 in the village of Dunvant, near Swansea, the son of Thomas Coslett Richards and Sarah Richards (born Jones). He and his younger brother and sister, Owen and Esther, were brought up in a highly cultured, work...... |
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Henry Bacon (1866 - 1924) - United States (Watseka)
Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866 – February 16, 1924) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who is best remembered for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (built 1915–22), which was his final project. Henry Bacon was born in Watseka, Illinois. He studied briefly at the University of Illinois, Urbana (1884), but left to begin his architectural car...... |
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George Cochran Lambdin (1830 - 1896) - United States (Pittsburgh)
George Cochran Lambdin (1830–1896) was an American Victorian artist, best known for his paintings of flowers. The son of portrait painter James Reid Lambdin, he was born on January 6, 1830 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and exhibited there beginning in 1848. During the American ...... |
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John Wheatley (1892 - 1955) - United States (Abergavenny)
John Laviers Wheatley ARA (23 January 1892 – 17 November 1955) was a British painter, art teacher and museum director who also served as a war artist in both World War One and in World War Two. Wheatley was born in Abergavenny in Wales and attended the Slade School of Art during 1912 and 1913, having previously taken art lessions from both Stanhope...... |
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Anna Huntington Stanley (1864 - 1907) - United States (Yellow Springs)
Anna Huntington Stanley (April 20, 1864 – February 25, 1907) was an American Impressionist artist. She was born on April 20, 1864 in Yellow Springs, Ohio to Anna Maria Wright and General David Sloan Stanley, US Army. She died in 1907. Her works are found in numerous institutional collections including The Smithsonian American Art Museum. An exhibit...... |
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Edgar Samuel Paxson (1852 - 1919) - United States (East Hamburg)
Edgar Samuel Paxson (April 25, 1852 – November 9, 1919) was an American frontier painter, scout, soldier and writer, based mainly in Montana. He is best known for his portraits of Native Americans in the Old West and for his depiction of the Battle of Little Bighorn in his painting "Custer's Last Stand". Paxson was born in 1852 to a Quaker family i...... |
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John Francis Murphy (1853 - 1921) - United States (Oswego)
John Francis Murphy (December 11, 1853 – January 30, 1921) was an American landscape painter. He was born at Oswego, New York. He first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1876, and was made an associate in 1885 and a full academician two years later. He became a member of the Society of American Artists (1901) and of the American Waterc...... |
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Frank Tenney Johnson (1874 - 1939) - United States (Pottawattamie County)
Frank Tenney Johnson (June 26, 1874 – January 1, 1939) was a painter of the Old American West, and he popularized a style of painting cowboys which became known as "The Johnson Moonlight Technique". Somewhere on the Range is an example of Johnson's moonlight technique. To paint his paintings he used knives, fingers and brushes. Johnson was born in ...... |
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Edmund Darch Lewis (1835 - 1910) - United States (Philadelphia)
Edmund Darch Lewis (October 17, 1835 - August 12, 1910) was an American landscape painter known for his prolific style and marine oils and watercolors. Lewis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a well-to-do family. He started training at age 15 with German-born Paul Weber (1823–1916) of the Hudson River School. At age 19 he exhibited at the ...... |
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Charles James Theriat (1851 - 1906) - United States (New York)
James Henry Charles (5 January 1851 – 27 August 1906) was a British impressionist artist. Charles was born in Warrington and after he moved to London he studied art at Heatherley School of Fine Art, before studying further in both London and Paris. In 1875, he started a long association with the Royal Academy, where he exhibited quite regularly unt...... |
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George James Coates (1869 - 1930) - United States (South Melbourne)
George James Coates (8 August 1869 – 27 July 1930) was an Australian painter. Coates was born in Emerald Hill (now South Melbourne, Victoria), the son of John Coates, an artist-lithographer of English stock, and his wife Elizabeth, a daughter of Ephraim Irwin who came from Ireland. George Coates was educated at St James Grammar School, then at the ...... |
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Dwinell Grant (1912 - 1991) - United States (Springfield)
Dwinell Grant (Clarence Dwinell Grant, 1912, Springfield, Ohio - 1991, Doylestown, Pennsylvania) was an American visual artist known for his pioneering contributions to the field of art film. Grant began studying landscape painting at an early age with his grandfather Paul Emilio Henking. In 1931, he enrolled at the Dayton Art Institute, where he f...... |
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Eldzier Cortor (1916 - 2015) - United States (Richmond)
Eldzier Cortor (January 10, 1916 – November 26, 2015) was an African-American artist and printmaker. His work typically features elongated nude figures in intimate settings, influenced by both traditional African art and European surrealism. Cortor was born in Richmond, Virginia, to John and Ophelia Cortor. His family moved to Chicago when Cortor w...... |
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Robert Goodnough (1917 - 2010) - United States (Cortland)
Robert Goodnough (October 23, 1917 – October 2, 2010) was an American abstract expressionist painter. A veteran of World War II, Goodnough was one of the last of the original generation of the New York School (although he has been referred to as a member of the "second generation" of Abstract Expressionists), even though he began exhibiting his wor...... |
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Vincent Evans (1896 - 1976) - United States (Ystalyfera)
Vincent Evans (1896–1976) was a Welsh artist who had a varied career as a painter, printmaker and art teacher and is known for his depictions of mine workers. Evans was born in Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley in South Wales. Evans was born into a large family of seven children and from the age of thirteen worked as a coal miner. After ten years wo...... |
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George Wright (1872 - 1951) - United States (Fox Chase)
George Hand Wright (1872–1951) was an American painter, illustrator and printmaker. Born in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a blacksmith, he attended the Spring Garden Institute, a local technical school, and was apprenticed to a lithographer. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Robert Vonno...... |
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Charles Schreyvogel (1861 - 1912) - United States (New York)
Charles Schreyvogel (January 4, 1861 – January 27, 1912) was an American painter of Western subject matter in the days of the disappearing frontier. Schreyvogel was especially interested in military life. He was born in New York City and grew up in a poor family of German immigrant shopkeepers on the Lower East Side of New York. He also spent part ...... |
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Charles Walter Stetson (1858 - 1911) - United States (Tiverton Four Corners)
Charles Walter Stetson (1858–1911) was an American artist often described as a "colorist" for his rich use of color. Stetson was born in Tiverton Four Corners, Rhode Island on March 25, 1858. His father was a Baptist preacher, and the family faced economic worries. Stetson was a self-taught painter. At the age of 14 he began painting, and at the ag...... |
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Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865 - 1940) - United States (Brooklyn)
Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865–1940) was an American Romantic landscape painter and is widely considered one of Alaska's most important historical artists. Sydney Mortimer Laurence was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied at the Art Students League of New York. He married Alexandrina Fredricka Dupre in 1889. He exhibited regularly by the late 188...... |
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Edwin Dickinson (1891 - 1978) - United States (Seneca Falls)
Edwin Walter Dickinson (October 11, 1891 – December 2, 1978) was an American painter and draftsman best known for psychologically charged self-portraits, quickly painted landscapes, which he called premier coups, and large, hauntingly enigmatic paintings involving figures and objects painted from observation, in which he invested his greatest time ...... |
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Joseph Hirsch (1910 - 1981) - United States (Philadelphia)
Joseph Hirsch (1910–1981) was an American painter, who was born in Philadelphia. Hirsch began his study of art at the Philadelphia Museum when he was seventeen. He also studied privately with Henry Hensche in Provincetown and George Luks in New York City. In addition to formal study, Hirsch traveled extensively, including a five-year stay in France...... |
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Arnold Blanch (1896 - 1968) - United States (Mantorville)
Arnold Blanch (June 4, 1896 – October 3, 1968), was born and raised in Mantorville, Minnesota. He was an American modernist painter, etcher, illustrator, lithographer, muralist, printmaker and art teacher. His modernist paintings are associated with the Social Realist movement. Blanch met his first wife the painter Lucile Blanch, (born Lucile Lundq...... |
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Elijah Pierce (1892 - 1984) - United States (Baldwyn)
Elijah Pierce (1892-1984) was a renowned wood carver throughout the 1900s. Pierce was the youngest in his family born from a former slave on a farm in Baldwyn, Mississippi on March 5, 1892. He began carving at a young age using a pocket knife. He first started carving animals because of his prior life of growing up on a farm. Pierce was honored wit...... |
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Alexandre Hogue (1898 - 1994) - United States (Memphis)
Alexandre Hogue (February 22, 1898 – July 22, 1994) was an American artist active during the 1930s through the 1960s. He is a realist painter associated with the Dallas Nine the majority of his works focus on Southwestern and Midwestern landscapes during the Dust Bowl. Hogue was born on February 22, 1898 in Memphis, Missouri, to Reverend Charles Le...... |
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Cady Wells (1904 - 1954) - United States (Southbridge)
Cady Wells (1904–1954) was a painter and patron of the arts who settled in New Mexico the 1930s. He has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, during his life and posthumously, as well as the 2009 book Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism. OCLC 317824650. . Henry Cady Wells was born in 1904 in Southbridge, Massachusetts, the son of Channin...... |
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Taro Yamamoto (1919 - 1994) - United States (Hollywood)
Taro Yamamoto (October 29, 1919 – June 12, 1994) belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others became a leading art moveme...... |
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Fritz Bultman (1919 - 1985) - United States (New Orleans)
Fritz Bultman (April 4, 1919 – July 20, 1985) was an American Abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, and collagist and a member of the New York School of artists. A. Fred Bultman was the second child and only son of A. Fred and Pauline Bultman. His family was prominent in New Orleans, where his father owned a Catholic funeral company. By the age...... |
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Georgette Seabrooke (1916 - 2011) - United States (Charleston)
Georgette Seabrooke (aka Georgette Seabrooke Powell August 2, 1916 – December 27, 2011), was an American muralist, artist, illustrator, art therapist, non-profit chief executive and educator. She is best known for her 1936 mural, Recreation in Harlem at Harlem Hospital in New York City, which was restored and put on public display in 2012 after bei...... |
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Alice Trumbull Mason (1904 - 1971) - United States (Litchfield)
Alice Trumbull Mason (1904–1971) was an American abstract painter. She was descended from renowned history painter John Trumbull through her father. She travelled throughout Europe when she was young. Beginning in 1921, she studied art in Rome, attending the British Academy in 1923. She settled in New York by 1927 and was influenced by early abstra...... |
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Ogden Pleissner (1905 - 1983) - United States (Brooklyn)
Ogden Minton Pleissner (1905–1983) was an American painter, specializing in landscapes and war art related to his service in World War II. Pleissner was born on April 29, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York. His father was very interested in the arts, especially music, and his mother was an accomplished violinist who had studied in Germany. When he was elev...... |
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Allan Rohan Crite (1910 - 2007) - United States (North Plainfield)
Allan Rohan Crite (March 20, 1910 – September 6, 2007 ) was a Boston-based artist born in North Plainfield, New Jersey. He won several honors, such as the 350th Harvard University Anniversary Medal. Crite's mother, Annamae, was a poet who encouraged her son to draw. He showed promise early, enrolling in the Children's Art Centre at United South End...... |
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Henry Lee Mcfee (1886 - 1953) - United States (St. Louis)
Henry Lee McFee (April 14, 1886 – March 19, 1953) was a pioneer American cubist painter and a prominent member of the Woodstock artists colony. McFee was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1886. From 1902 to 1905, he attended Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri. In 1907, he inherited a large sum of money, allowing him to enroll in the Stevens...... |
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Frank Virgil Dudley (1868 - 1957) - United States (Delavan)
Frank V. Dudley (November 14, 1868 – March 5, 1957) was an American landscape painter, known especially for his paintings of scenes in the Indiana Dunes. Dudley was born in Delavan, Wisconsin, but he spent most of his life in the Chicago area. His studio was located in what is now the Indiana Dunes State Park. Not only did he frequently paint the d...... |
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William Harrison Scarborough (1812 - 1871) - United States (Tennessee)
William Harrison Scarborough (November 7, 1812 – August 16, 1871) was an American painter, active mainly as a portraitist. A native of Tennessee, he spent much of his career in South Carolina. Scarborough was born in Dover, Tennessee to John and Sally Bosworth Scarborough, whose family origins were in Scarborough, Yorkshire. He often employed a fam...... |
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Mabel Woodward (1877 - 1945) - United States (Providence)
Mabel May Woodward (September 28, 1877 – August 14, 1945) was a prominent Rhode Island impressionist painter during the late 19th and early 20th century. Woodward was born to a stable, affluent family in Providence, Rhode Island, where she spent most of her life, except for a brief period in San Francisco and many summers in Ogunquit, Maine. Her fa...... |
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Mabel May Woodward (1877 - 1945) - United States (Providence)
Mabel May Woodward (September 28, 1877 – August 14, 1945) was a prominent Rhode Island impressionist painter during the late 19th and early 20th century. Woodward was born to a stable, affluent family in Providence, Rhode Island, where she spent most of her life, except for a brief period in San Francisco and many summers in Ogunquit, Maine. Her fa...... |
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