Ivan Albright, an American painter noted for his meticulously detailed, exaggeratedly realistic depictions of decay and corruption is considered to be a magic realist. Albright was educated at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and the University of IL, Urbana,...
Kathleen R. Bates is a self-taught artist working mainly in watercolors and oils. Her watercolors are characterized by saturated, intense colors and realistic, illustrative style after the example of Audubon, especially when portraying birds and flowers. Her oil...
Born Trenton, SC, lived in Greenville, GA. Studied Brenau College, GA, University of Pennsylvania, PAFA, Colarossi Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, and the Hans Hofman School of Fine Arts in Munich and Capri, Italy and the Columbia University Teachers College. Won the...
George Bickerstaff (1893-1954) was born in Marianna, AR, and died in Ukiah, CA. He also lived in San Diego, Los Angeles, Van Nuys and Texas. He was a prolific painter of mountain and desert scenes. His landscapes often include eucalypti as well as rolling hills of...
Arthur E. Blackmore (1854-1921) Born/lived: England/Troy NY, New York City. Known for: painting landscapes, murals and designs on Steinway grand pianos, and musical instruments. Studied: South Kensington Museum, London. Member: Salmagundi Club. Exhibited: Society of...
Born/lived: England/Troy NY, New York City. Known for: painting landscapes, murals and designs on Steinway grand pianos, and musical instruments. Studied: South Kensington Museum, London. Member: Salmagundi Club. Exhibited: Society of Independent...
An American Modernist artist, Oscar F. Bluemner was born in Preuzlan, Germany. He lived in Chicago, New York City and South Braintree, MA. He was trained as an architect like his father and grandfather. He studied painting and architecture at the Royal Academy of...
An American Modernist artist, Oscar F. Bluemner was born in Preuzlan, Germany. He lived in Chicago, New York City and South Braintree, MA. He was trained as an architect like his father and grandfather. He studied painting and architecture at the Royal Academy of...
Born in England, John George Brown, NA (1831-1913) was one of the most popular genre painters in America after the Civil War. He was best known for realistic paintings of “street urchins”, shoe shine boys, newspaper boys, and street musicians. He painted and loved...
William Partridge Burpee was born in Rockland, ME and lived in Boston, MA. He studied with marine painter William Bradford. He was a member of Boston Art Club. He exhibited at the Boston Art Club; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Corcoran Gallery; the American...
An American Impressionist, Chadwick was a member of Old Lyme art colony and painted with Childe Hassam, Charles Ebert, and Chauncey Ryder. He painted on Monhegan Island, ME. His studio was reconstructed on the grounds of the Florence Griswold Museum. Born/lived:...
Roman Chatov was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, to a theater impresario and his wife. He began drawing in his teenage years, including doing magazine illustrations at age 16 and being a military-correspondent painter near the end of World War I. Chatov was first...
Born/lived: New York, NY/ Kent, CT, Albemarle County, VA, Charlottesville, VA. He painted in the Deep South in Charleston and Savannah, Kent, CT along the Housatonic River, art colonies at Annisquam, Gloucester, Chadd’s Ford and Ogunquit, in Venice, Grand...
Born/lived: Born in Hartford, CT; lived in Sandusky, OH and NY. In 1903, Curran was invited by artist Frederick Dellenbaugh to Cragsmoor, NY, an art center in the Hudson River Valley where Curran established a studio. Known: best known for his paintings of female...
Born/lived: Harper’s Ferry, VA, Blowing Rock, NC (studio) and NYC. Known for: painting poetic, mystical landscapes. In the 1890s he created religious paintings and murals, and a number of views of the Grand Canyon in his later years. He visited Europe in 1897 and...
Born/lived: Harper’s Ferry, VA, Blowing Rock, NC (studio) and NYC. Known for: painting poetic, mystical landscapes. In the 1890s he created religious paintings and murals, and a number of views of the Grand Canyon in his later years. He visited Europe in 1897 and...
Born/lived: Harper’s Ferry, VA, Blowing Rock, NC (studio) and NYC. Known for: painting poetic, mystical landscapes. In the 1890s he created religious paintings and murals, and a number of views of the Grand Canyon in his later years. He visited Europe in 1897 and...
“Blowing Rock, North Carolina Landscape”, oil on canvas, 20″ x 30″, signed lower left. This painting is in excellent condition in a carved gold frame also in excellent condition. Born/lived: Harper’s Ferry, VA, Blowing Rock, NC (studio) and...
Born/lived: Harper’s Ferry, VA, Blowing Rock, NC (studio) and NYC. Known for: painting poetic, mystical landscapes. In the 1890s he created religious paintings and murals, and a number of views of the Grand Canyon in his later years. He visited Europe in 1897 and...
Born/lived: Harper’s Ferry, VA, Blowing Rock, NC (studio) and NYC. Known for: painting poetic, mystical landscapes. In the 1890s he created religious paintings and murals, and a number of views of the Grand Canyon in his later years. He visited Europe in 1897 and...
Born/lived: Harper’s Ferry, VA, Blowing Rock, NC (studio) and NYC. Known for: painting poetic, mystical landscapes. In the 1890s he created religious paintings and murals, and a number of views of the Grand Canyon in his later years. He visited Europe in 1897 and...
An African-American carver, Ulysses Davis was born in Fitzgerald, Georgia. He lived in Savannah, GA. He was a barber who carved wood with a pocket knife between customers. Davis carved over 200 works. He created mythical creatures, American presidents and African...
Jean de Botton was a painter and sculptor. He was born in France and studied there with renowned artists such as Georges Braque. He came to the United States where he lived, painted, wrote, and taught. His work is in many museums, public places and private...
Lamar Dodd, NA was a painter, educator and lecturer born in Fairburn, GA, who lived in NYC and Athens, GA. Dodd’s painting locations include Monhegan Island, ME. He was Associate, Professor of Art, University of Georgia, Regent’s Professor of Art, Lamar Dodd Professor...
Lamar Dodd, NA was a painter, educator and lecturer born in Fairburn, GA, who lived in NYC and Athens, GA. Dodd’s painting locations include Monhegan Island, ME. He was Associate, Professor of Art, University of Georgia, Regent’s Professor of Art, Lamar Dodd Professor...
Lamar Dodd, NA was a painter, educator and lecturer born in Fairburn, GA, who lived in NYC and Athens, GA. Dodd’s painting locations include Monhegan Island, ME. He was Associate, Professor of Art, University of Georgia, Regent’s Professor of Art, Lamar Dodd Professor...
Lamar Dodd, NA was a painter, educator and lecturer born in Fairburn, GA, who lived in NYC and Athens, GA. Dodd’s painting locations include Monhegan Island, ME. He was Associate, Professor of Art, University of Georgia, Regent’s Professor of Art, Lamar Dodd Professor...
Lamar Dodd, NA was a painter, educator and lecturer born in Fairburn, GA, who lived in NYC and Athens, GA. Dodd’s painting locations include Monhegan Island, ME. He was Associate, Professor of Art, University of Georgia, Regent’s Professor of Art, Lamar Dodd Professor...
Lamar Dodd, NA was a painter, educator and lecturer born in Fairburn, GA, who lived in NYC and Athens, GA. Dodd’s painting locations include Monhegan Island, ME. He was Associate, Professor of Art, University of Georgia, Regent’s Professor of Art, Lamar Dodd Professor...
Lamar Dodd, NA was a painter, educator and lecturer born in Fairburn, GA, who lived in NYC and Athens, GA. Dodd’s painting locations include Monhegan Island, ME. He was Associate, Professor of Art, University of Georgia, Regent’s Professor of Art, Lamar Dodd Professor...
Lamar Dodd, NA was a painter, educator and lecturer born in Fairburn, GA, who lived in NYC and Athens, GA. Dodd’s painting locations include Monhegan Island, ME. He was Associate, Professor of Art, University of Georgia, Regent’s Professor of Art, Lamar Dodd Professor...
Lamar Dodd, NA was a painter, educator and lecturer born in Fairburn, GA, who lived in NYC and Athens, GA. Dodd’s painting locations include Monhegan Island, ME. He was Associate, Professor of Art, University of Georgia, Regent’s Professor of Art, Lamar Dodd Professor...
Robert Spear Dunning was born in Brunswick, ME and moved to Fall River, MA, a wealthy mill town, when he was 5. He studied under James Roberts and later attended the National Academy of Design in New York City where he studied under Daniel Huntington, painting figures...
Mark Fisher was born in Boston, MA. He is known for his impressionist landscape paintings. He studied at the Lowell Institute, Boston, with George Inness in Boston, and in Paris with Charles Gleyre, an academic artist. Fisher was also influenced by Monet and the...
George Howell Gay (1858-1931) George H. Gay was well known for his watercolor landscapes, seascapes and paintings of rivers and ships, mostly along the shores of New England. Gay also painted snowscapes, but these are scarcer. It is unusual to find an oil painting by...
Samuel Lancaster Gerry (1813-1891) Born/lived: Boston, MA. He had a studio in Boston. In 1840, made many trips to New Hampshire’s Lake District and its White Mountains. He was also was among the Hudson River School artists who painted in that geographical area. He...
William Halsey was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1915. He was a student of Elizabeth O’Neill Verner and Alice Ravenel Huger Smith. He studied at the University of South Carolina and at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, who awarded him a Paige Traveling...
Carl Hoerman (1885-1955) Born/lived: Babenhausen, Bavaria; Chicago, IL; Saugatuck, MI; Palm Springs and Riverside, CA; Douglas, MI. He was married to Christiana Akermann who was also a painter. Known: As a landscape painter, etcher, craftsman and architect. Studied:...
Hoppin grew up in Providence, RI. During a long illness, he began to paint. Upon his recovery he studied at the Artist Students League, NY, Academie Julian and Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. He did some portraits but preferred landscapes in the style of Impressionism,...
“Southern Scene”, oil on canvasboard, 9.5″ x 12.5″, signed lower right. This painting is in excellent condition in a nice original gold frame also in excellent condition. Born in Summit, Mississippi, Hull was a revered and influential figure in...
Wilson Irvine, ANA (1869-1936) Born/lived: Byron, IL/ Lyme, CT. Best known for: American Impressionist landscape painter. Studied: Art Institute of Chicago. Member: Associate National Academy; Lyme Art Assoc.; Chicago Society of Artists; Chicago CC; Cliff Dwellers;...
Jansson was an impressionist painter born in Vermland, Sweden, emigrating to Chicago, IL in 1889. He studied in Stockholm, Christiania and Paris. He was a member of the Palette and Chisel Club, Chicago Art Club, Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago Artists Guild,...
Wadsworth Jarrell is an African American artist who was born in Georgia in 1929 and educated at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is one of the founding members of AFRICOBRA, (African Commune Of Bad Relevant Artists) a revolutionary artist school of thought founded in...
Myrtle Jones (1913-2007) Born/lived: born in Winder, Forsyth County, Georgia and lived in Savannah, GA. Known: to paint children, portraits, floral still lifes, landscapes, local street scenes and architecture of Savannah. Her work was unique in its balance of realism...
Myrtle Jones (1913-2007) Born/lived: born in Winder, Forsyth County, Georgia and lived in Savannah, GA. Known: to paint children, portraits, floral still lifes, landscapes, local street scenes and architecture of Savannah. Her work was unique in its balance of realism...
Born/lived: Born in Madison, NJ and lived in New York and Providence Rhode Island. Known: as a painter of landscapes, marine and nocturne paintings. His paintings were often dark, evening landscapes similar in style to those of Ralph Blakelock, with whom he painted....
Hudson Mindell Kitchell (1862-1944) Born/lived: Born in Madison, NJ and lived in New York and Providence Rhode Island. Known: as a painter of landscapes, marine and nocturne paintings. His paintings were often dark, evening landscapes similar in style to those of...
Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924) Knight was born in Philadelphia and became a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1858 to 1861. He then studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with academic painters Charles Gleyre and Alexander Cabanel and shared...
Born/lived: Germany, NYC, Woodstock, NY. Known: as “the Painter of Snow”. He was a plein-air American Impressionist painter capturing the fleeting moods of nature during a period when winter scene genre was rapidly rising in popularity. Koeniger painted...
Wilbur Kurtz (1882-1967) Wilbur Kurtz was a Georgia artist, historian, illustrator and writer born in Oakland, IL. He became a foremost authority on Old South Atlanta. He studied at DePauw University, Art Institute of Chicago, and with George Wilmer Browne. He lived...
Born/lived: born in 1830 in Pittsburgh. Germantown remained his primary home place, but Lambdin spent some years away, studying in Munich and Paris in 1855, Rome in 1870, and in the late 1860s living in New York City where he had space in the Tenth Street Studio...
Mary Comer Lane (1881-1966) Lane lived in Savannah, GA. and was married to Mills B. Lane She had her hands full with a family. She took summer art classes in Gloucester, MA with Henry Bayley Snell. In 1920 she was instrumental in the founding of the Savannah Art Club,...
Mails is a painter, illustrator and writer. He was born in California and studied at California College of Arts and Crafts and Luther Theological Sem., St. Paul. Mails is best known for painting and illustrating Indian culture and sketching in the Southwest. He...
Ernest Lee Major (1864-1950) Born/lived: Washington, DC; Alexandria, VA; Boston, MA; Paris Known: Major was among the leaders of the Boston School of artists. He was a classical academician, teacher and painter of portraits, genre, still-lifes, and landscapes. He was...
Born in Italy, Athos Menaboni was profoundly influenced by his father, an avid hunter, and naturalist and the menagerie of exotic animals and birds of his childhood. Menaboni came to New York City in 1920 and moved to Atlanta and painted works for many prominent...
Born in Italy, Athos Menaboni was profoundly influenced by his father, an avid hunter, and naturalist and the menagerie of exotic animals and birds of his childhood. Menaboni came to New York City in 1920 and moved to Atlanta and painted works for many prominent...
Born in Italy, Athos Menaboni was profoundly influenced by his father, an avid hunter, and naturalist and the menagerie of exotic animals and birds of his childhood. Menaboni came to New York City in 1920 and moved to Atlanta and painted works for many prominent...
Born in Italy, Athos Menaboni was profoundly influenced by his father, an avid hunter, and naturalist and the menagerie of exotic animals and birds of his childhood. Menaboni came to New York City in 1920 and moved to Atlanta and painted works for many prominent...
Born in Italy, Athos Menaboni was profoundly influenced by his father, an avid hunter, and naturalist and the menagerie of exotic animals and birds of his childhood. Menaboni came to New York City in 1920 and moved to Atlanta and painted works for many prominent...
Born in Italy, Athos Menaboni was profoundly influenced by his father, an avid hunter, and naturalist and the menagerie of exotic animals and birds of his childhood. Menaboni came to New York City in 1920 and moved to Atlanta and painted works for many prominent...
Born in Italy, Athos Menaboni was profoundly influenced by his father, an avid hunter, and naturalist and the menagerie of exotic animals and birds of his childhood. Menaboni came to New York City in 1920 and moved to Atlanta and painted works for many prominent...
Athos Menaboni was born in Livorno, Italy in 1895. He was profoundly influenced by his father, an avid hunter and naturalist, who expanded his family of five to include a menagerie of exotic animals and birds. Early on he studied under the great Belgian muralist,...
Athos Menaboni, born in Livorno, Italy in 1895, was destined to become profoundly influenced by his father, an avid hunter and naturalist, and the menagerie of exotic animals and birds which were included in the family of his youth. At age nine, Athos studied under...
Dennis Mercier is a self-taught, southern born and raised artist with a passion for color and expression. His diverse images create a style of great strength, color and vitality. Dennis started drawing at an early age, and as a teenager his talents were used in his...
Dennis Mercier is a self-taught, southern born and raised artist with a passion for color and expression. His diverse images create a style of great strength, color and vitality. Dennis started drawing at an early age, and as a teenager his talents were used in his...
Meredith is an artist and Trompe l’oeil painter. He studied at the University of Georgia under Lamar Dodd and is a member of Grand Central Gallery and the Salmagundi Club in NYC. He has exhibited from Texas to Massachusetts, the Parthenon in Nashville, TN,...
Circa late 1860’s. Original exhibition label verso: Cahoon Museum of Art, Cotuit, MA. “Portraying African Americans with Respect”, May 1-June 10, 2012. This painting is in excellent condition, in a beautiful gold period frame, also in excellent condition.
Christopher Patrick Hussey Murphy received some instruction in art as a child and pursued the practice of art throughout his life. Whenever possible he visited art galleries in Washington, Boston and New York. He subscribed to the two English magazines, “Colour”...
Born/lived: Savannah, GA. Known for: landscapes, marines, architecture, portraiture and still-lifes done in New York, Washington, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. He painted urban and rural scenes, from classical structures of the 19th Century...
Christopher Murphy, Jr (1902-1973) Born/lived: Savannah, GA. Known for: Christopher Murphy, Jr. is an important southern American artist who was a painter of landscapes, marines, architecture, portraiture and still-lifes done in New York, Washington, North Carolina,...
Born/lived: Born in Baltimore, MD, lived in NYC and Philadelphia. Known: as landscape painter, scenery painter, book illustrator, active in Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia and NYC. Studied: Philadelphia with James Hamilton. Member: American Watercolor Society....
Born/lived: Woodland, Georgia Known: for easel painting floral landscapes, wildflowers and floral still lifes and floral motifs in watercolor and gouache. Annie Pye was married to Wilbur Kurtz from 1949 until his death in 1967. Studied: Elizabeth Mather College, where...
Paul Riba was one of the foremost painters of Magic Realism. He explored the unreal juxtaposition of objects with his own touch of exacting realism. He spoke of his work as “invitations to pause and enjoy.” Riba was born in Ohio and received his professional training...
Born/lived: Alton, Illinois/lived in New York and summered in Mountainville, NY, lived MO, Gloucester, MA. Best known for: Her painting style was impressionist, with attention to qualities of light, deliberate brushstrokes and rich colors. She was influenced by and...
Born/lived: Alton, Illinois/lived in New York and summered in Mountainville, NY, lived MO, Gloucester, MA. Best known for: Her painting style was impressionist, with attention to qualities of light, deliberate brushstrokes and rich colors. She was influenced by and...
Agnes Richmond (1870-1964) Born/lived: Alton, Illinois/lived in New York and summered in Mountainville, NY, lived MO, Gloucester, MA. Best known for: Her painting style was impressionist, with attention to qualities of light, deliberate brushstrokes and rich colors....
Agnes Richmond (1870-1964) Born/lived: Alton, Illinois/lived in New York and summered in Mountainville, NY, lived MO, Gloucester, MA. Best known for: Her painting style was impressionist, with attention to qualities of light, deliberate brushstrokes and rich colors....
Agnes Richmond (1870-1964) Born/lived: Alton, Illinois/lived in New York and summered in Mountainville, NY, lived MO, Gloucester, MA. Best known for: Her painting style was impressionist, with attention to qualities of light, deliberate brushstrokes and rich colors....
Agnes Richmond (1870-1964) Born/lived: Alton, Illinois/lived in New York and summered in Mountainville, NY, lived MO, Gloucester, MA. Best known for: Her painting style was impressionist, with attention to qualities of light, deliberate brushstrokes and rich colors....
Agnes Richmond (1870-1964) Born/lived: Alton, Illinois/lived in New York and summered in Mountainville, NY, lived MO, Gloucester, MA. Best known for: Her painting style was impressionist, with attention to qualities of light, deliberate brushstrokes and rich colors....
Agnes Richmond (1870-1964) Born/lived: Alton, Illinois/lived in New York and summered in Mountainville, NY, lived MO, Gloucester, MA. Best known for: Her painting style was impressionist, with attention to qualities of light, deliberate brushstrokes and rich colors....
Agnes Richmond (1870-1964) Born/lived: Alton, Illinois/lived in New York and summered in Mountainville, NY, lived MO, Gloucester, MA. Best known for: Her painting style was impressionist, with attention to qualities of light, deliberate brushstrokes and rich colors....
Born/lived: born in New Orleans, LA /also lived in Mandeville, LA. Known for: Louisiana landscapes, plantation homes, steamboats, and other aspects of Louisiana life and culture in oils and watercolor combining realism and impressionism. He was influenced by the...
Born/lived: Savannah, GA. Saussy traveled and painted extensively in the Carolinas and north Georgia and New Orleans. She traveled to Europe and sketched and painted in many cities, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Munich, Verona, Florence and Venice. Best known for: painting...
Born/lived: Savannah, GA. Saussy traveled and painted extensively in the Carolinas and north Georgia and New Orleans. She traveled to Europe and sketched and painted in many cities, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Munich, Verona, Florence and Venice. Best known for: painting...
Gulbrand Sether (1869-1941) Born/lived: He was born in Saerskovbygda, Elverum, Norway and moved to Chicago USA in 1893. About 1900 he settled in Chicago’s Humboldt Park, an area heavily populated by Norwegian-Americans, where he had his own studio. Known: Sether...
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (1876-1958) One of the leading artists of the Charleston, South Carolina Renaissance, 1915 to 1940, Alice Smith was known for her landscape and genre paintings. She was a descendent of several distinguished families. She was largely self...
Thomas Henry Smith was a painter who lived in New York, Philadelphia and Boston. He was most known for his paintings of portraits, figures and flowers. He exhibited at the National Academy Art, 1843-47, 1874; American Art-Union 1843-49; Brooklyn Art Association, 1864;...
(William) Maltby Sykes (1811-1992) Born/lived: born in Aberdeen, MS and lived in Auburn, AL. Known: He was a printmaker, graphic artist, teacher and painter. Studied: at the Art Students League and with Arthur Bairnsfather, Wayman Adams, George C. Miller, John Sloan,...
Gayle B. Tate is known as a trompe l’oeil painter. “Trompe l’oeil is a French term meaning ‘trick the eye’. Tate is a native of Midwest America, born in Abilene, Texas and raised as a world traveler, the son of a career army officer. He...
Anthony Thieme (1888-1954) Born/lived: born in Rotterdasm, Holland and lived in New York, Boston, but primarily Rockport, MA and wintered in St. Augustine, FL where he had studios. Known: best known as a painter, designer and teacher who painted scenes of streets,...
Edward K. Williams (1870-1950) was born in Pennsylvania and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He and his wife moved to Nashville, Indiana where he joined the Brown County Art Gallery Association. He was a member of the Indiana Art Club; Brown County Art...
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was a great American architect and writer. Over a 70-year career, he designed over 1,000 structures of every possible type, of which some 532 were built. He is best known for unprecedented architecture such as Fallingwater, the...
