Abercrombie, Gertrude
(American, 1909-1977) Chicago magic realist painter. She studied at the University of Chicago, and was a member of the Chicago Society of Artists and the Chicago Non-Jury Society of Artists. She also exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1930s).
Allworthy, Joseph
(American, 1897-1991) Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1897, Allworthy studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and later in Paris at the Academie Julian. His travels took him to various parts of the Country where he captured some of the day to day images of this land. He taught at the American Academy of Art and spent most of his career in Chicago. He was a Member of the Chicago Art Club and All Francaise de Chicago. He exhibited at the National Academy, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Century of Progress, Municipal Art League, Texas Centennial Exposition and many others
Askenazy, Mischa
(Russian/American, 1888-1961) Maurice (Mischa) Askenazy was a California painter born in Odessa, Russia in 1888. At the age of four, he emigrated with his parents to New York City. By 1913 he was studying art at the National Academy of Design where he won a scholarship that brought him to France and Italy. In 1928 he settled in Los Angeles and here pursued a long and successful career in art until his death in 1961. Askenazy's style places him in the realm of modernism, his canvases appearing to show the influence of Cezanne. This post-impressionist style translates very successfully in his portraits, still-lifes, and landscapes and makes him one of California's most accomplished representational painters of the post-modern period.
Auger, Ruth Munro
(American, 1886-1967) Born in Austin, Texas and raised in Denver, Colorado where she studied at the Student School of Art, Ruth Auger became an artist of the West, with her most recognized achievement being six murals, completed in 1937 and covering 1136 square feet, of the history of the Cherokee Strip Run for the courthouse in Enid, Oklahoma. "The cattle portrayed in the mural bear registered Texas brands selected by the University of Texas, Austin". (Powers 18).
As a painted, she also depicted army officer and other portraits, horse studies, mountain landscapes, and cowboy figures.
In 1905 she won a scholarship to the New York School of Art, where she was a student of Robert Henri and William Merritt Chase. About ten years later, she studied in California at Carmel for summer school, the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles.
She spent many years in the newspaper business, with art being a secondary activity. From 1917 to 1929, she was registrar at the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy and was also a society editor for the "El Paso Herald" and the "El Paso Times".
Then she won the WPA commission to paint the murals in Enid, and in 1937 settled permanently in that town. For 25 years, she served as staff artist for the Harlow Publishing Company, and many of her illustrations had western themes. She also taught at the Municipal Art Gallery. Much of her fine art painting was completed in her spare time from her professional jobs. On some of her paintings, she signed her last name "Auger."
Aurner, Kathryn D.
(American, 1898-1991)
Austin, Darrell
(American, 1907-1994) Austin studied at the University of Oregon. He spent most of his career painting in Milwaukee with the group of magic realist painters, including Karl Priebe, Sylvia Fein, John Wilde, and also with Aaron Bohrod. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Barrett, Franklin
(American, early 20th)
Phladelphia painter active in the 1940s.
Bartholemy, Dorothy
(American, 1914-2005) Bartholemy lived in East St. Louis, and studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Art (now Washington University) with Edmund Wuerpel. In 1937, she was awarded the John T. Milliken Prize for her painting, ìSlave Market, 1850î. This award included a year of study in Europe. Bartholemy regularly exhibited at the St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis Art Museum, and the Society of Independent Artists; as well as the Carnegie Institute (Directions in American Painting) and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art (New York). Bartholemy exhibited with other well known American Scene painters, Joe Jones, Joseph Vorst, and Charles Quest. Her work is highly indicative of this unique brand of American painting, revealing the influence of pioneer Midwestern artists in this movement,
such as Jones, Benton, Wood, and Curry.
Bearden, Romare
(American, 1911-1988) studied at Boston University, New York University (B.A. 1935), the Art Students League (1936-37), and Columbia University. During the 1930s, Bearden was involved with 306, an art school and workshop in Harlem where his cousin by marriage, Charles Alston, was a leading instructor.
From 1942-1945, Bearden served in the United States Army, and in 1950, he used funds from the G.I. Bill to travel to Paris, where he studied art history and philosophy at the Sorbonne and met, among others, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Joan Mir".
He was a founding member of Spiral group (1963) and a co-founder with Norman Lewis and Ernest Crichlow of the Cinque Gallery, a non-profit organization that showed the work of minority artists (1969). Beardenís early work belongs to the school of social realism, but after his return from Europe his images became more abstract.
In the early 1960s, Bearden began to make collages. The artist's works are in the permanent collections of most every major American Museum including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.† Retrospectives of Beardenís art have been organized by the Museum of Modern Art, the Mint Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Council for Creative Projects.
Berthelsen, Johann
(Danish/American, b. 1883-1967) Well known for his snow scenes of New York City, Berthelsen painted a wide variety of subjects, and was an accomplished landscapist. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club and the American Watercolor Society. He was active in Chicago, teaching music from 1911-12, and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1925. He was a friend of painter Svend Svendsen, who encouraged him to paint full time.
Betts, Harold Harrington
(American, b. 1881) Chicago painter. Betts exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1897-1931) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.
Birren, Joseph P.
(American, 1864-1933) California/Chicago painter. During the 1920s, Birren maintained a studio in Laguna Beach, CA and in Chicago. In 1927, he moved to Santa Fe. His works are in the collections of Monterey Peninsula Museum, L.A. County Museum, Pasadena Museum, and Washington University (St. Louis).
Brcin, John David
(American, b. 1899) Chicago area sculptor, active in the 1920s-30s. He exhibited at the Art Istitute of Chicago.
Broemel, Carl
(American, 1891-1984) Ohio painter, illustrator, and designer known for still lifes and landscapes.
Buck, Claude
(American, c. 1890) Buck painted primarily figurative works, and lived in Chicago and California. He was a member of the Carmel Art Association, Chicago Gallery Association, Santa Cruz Art League, and the Society for Sanity in Art. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Grand Central Art Gallery, Chicago Painters and Sculptors, and and the Chicago Gallery Association. He taught at the Studio School of Art (Chicago).
Burlingame, Sheila E.
(American, b. 1905)?1894-1969? Burlingame studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League. She lived in St Louis, New York, and in Provincetown. She worked in a modernist style, and executed prints, sculpture, and paintings, which she exhibited at the St Louis Artists Guild, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Academy of Design.
Carter, William
(American, b. 1909) Important African-American artist. Carter studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois. He exhibited at the Chicago Art League, Illinois Federal Project, Hull House, Chicago, American Negro Expo (Chicago, 1940), Howard University, Atlanta University, and the South Side Community Art Center.
Caser, Ettore
(Italian/American, 1880-1944 ) He studied art at the Venice Academy, then moved to Massachusetts in 1908. He was a member of the National Gallery of Design, and the Grand Central Art Gallery. Caserís paintings have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.
Castellon, Federico
(Spanish/American, 1914-1971) Castellon was a surrealist painter and printmaker greatly influenced by Dali. He exhibited from the 1930s-60s, at the Whitney Museum, Associated American Artists, Carnegie Institute, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Corcoran Gallery. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Museum, and the Library of Congress.
Cherry, Kathryn
(American, 1880-1931) Important St Louis impressionist painter. Cherry studied with Richard Miller, and specialized in still lifes, landscapes, and harbor scenes. She also decorated ceramics for University City Pottery. Cherry exhibited at the North Shore Art Association, Rockport Art Association, Chicago Galleries Association, and the St Louis Artist Guild.
Chubb, Lee
(American, 1904-2003) Chubb was born in St. Louis and studied at the University of Illinois. She was interesed in various forms of art, making paintings, collages, sculpture, and even candles. There was a retrospective exhibit of her work at the Sheldon Art Gallery in St. Louis in 2004.
Cohn, Harold
(American, 1908-1982) Detroit area modernist painter.
Cole, Ellis Prentice
(American, b. 1862) Cole was a Chicago painter, photographer, and lecturer. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago as early as 1902. Cole executed photographs of the Worldís Colombian Exposition of Chicago as well as portraits, but his primary subjects were Native Americans, particularly the Crow, and the National Parks of the West. His works are in the collections of Little Big Horn College (Crow Agency, Montana), The Crow Indian Historical and Cultural Collection; Crater Lake Institute (Oregon); and the National Parks Portfolio (United States
Department of the Interior). Coleís approach was fairly literal, but he had a keen sense of composition, and the subject content alone is captivating.
Constant
(Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys) (Dutch, b. 1920) Constant was an abstract expressionist painter who became a member of the Surrealist group in 1947, and then later the Cobra group. He studied in Amsterdam in the late 1930s and early 1940s. His work from the mid 1940s was influenced by Cubism and German Expressionism. From 1956-1974, he executed a series of works called New Babylon , which was a response to what he saw as the increasingly banal conditions of everyday life.
Corasick, William
(American, 1907-2002) Philadelphia modernist painter. Corasick studied at Temple University and at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, National Academy of Design, and the Butler Art Institute (1930s-50s).
Cummins, MarJorie Ransom
(American, 1895-1978) California/Southwest painter.
Drewes, Werner
(German/American, 1899-1985) Highly important American abstract painter. Drewes studied with Kandinsky and Klee at the Bauhaus in Germany in the 1920s. He exhibited there and at the Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum, and the Boston Museum. He taught at Columbia University, Washington University, and at the Institute of Design (with his friend, Moholy-Nagy). Drewes' work was perhaps the closest link from the Bauhaus to American modernism. He was a good friend of Kandinsky, and the two corresponded frequently while Drewes lived in the U.S. It was through Kandinsky, that Drewes met Katherine Drier, and became involved with the Societe Anonyme, the avandt-garde group in France. Drewes also was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists in New York in the 1930s. Drewes abandoned abstraction in the 1950s-60s, favoring a more expressionist style of painting traditional subjects, but by the 1970s, he returned almost exclusively to painting non-objective subjects. Drewes was skilled in many mediums, including printmaking, watercolor, ceramic and fabric design, and in oil painting; which was consistent with most Bauhaus-trained artists.
Dudley, Frank V.
(American, 1868-1957) Dudley studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He first visited the Northern Indiana dunes in 1912, and was so taken with the view, he devoted most of his subject matter to them for the remainder of his career. William Gerdts, in his book, ìArt Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Paintingî, explains, îGiven its proximity to Chicago, it is not surprising that the Indiana dune country, at the southern end of Lake Michigan, was a popular subject for the cityís painters. The area had reverted to wilderness after the Indians left and after the Chicago fire, when thousands of trees had been cut down to rebuild the city.î In 1918, Dudley had an exhibition of his paintings of the area at the Art Institute of Chicago. He also exhibited at the Chicago Gallery Association, Union League Club, Chicago (a painting by Dudley remains in their collection), Hoosier Salon, and the Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA. He was a devoted supporter of the dunes area conservation.
Duffaut, Prefete
(Haitian, b. 1923) Duffaut was a shipbuilder before becoming a painter. He executed a mural ìTemptation of Christî in the Cathedral Ste. Trinite in Port-au-Prince. He worked in Port-au-Prince and Jacmel. REF: The NativeTradition, Haiti: The Flagg Tanning Corporation Collection, Milwaukee Art Center.
Dufy, Raoul
(French, 1877-1953) Dufy was a painter, illustrator and designer. He had a solo show at the Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris, as early as 1906. Dufy started a small factory in 1911 to design and print fabrics for the couturier Poiret. In 1937 he painted a large scale mural for the Paris International Exhibition, and in 1952, Dufy was awarded the main prize for painting at the Venice Biennale.
Dusso, Leon
(American, 1918-1991) Dusso studied with Archipenko and lived in Los Angeles.
Eppens, William H.
(American, b. 1885) He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Art with Carl Krafft and Frederic Grant. He was a member of the South Side Art Association and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Vanderpoel Art Association. His work is included in the Vanderpoel collection and Chicago Public Library.
Fanckboner, Harry
(American, b. 1890) Born in South Dakota but grew in Grand Rapids Michigan. After high school, he attended the Art Institute of Chicago briefly, before going overseas to a Paris hospital for the Army in WWI. He later worked at Grand Rapids Herald as a reporter and a fire insurance engineer. He also lived in Terra Haute, Indian and Wilmette, Illinois. Fanckboner drew young starlets and send their pictures out for signature, painted mostly fire related scenes, and photographed buildings and fires.
Farsky, Oldrich Otto
(American, early 20th century) Farsky worked in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles in 1925. He frequently painted in the Antelope Valley, near Palmdale, CA.
Faulkner, Henry Lawrence
(American, 1924-1981) Faulkner was born in Kentucky, and studied at the Los Angeles County Art Institute with Millard Sheets. He exhibited at several galleries in New York, including the ACA Galleries; he also exhibited at the University of Kentucky, Closson Gallery (Cincinnati), and the University of Miami.
Bohemian painter and poet, Henry Faulkner claimed his birthplace to be Egypt, KY. He was the cousin of writer, William Faulkner, and a close friend of Tennessee Williams. He was supposedly incarcerated for a time in a mental ward with Ezra Pound.
"His most pronounced traits: artistry, poetry, reverence for nature, love for animals, his restlessness and disdain for social convention, shaped him from early life. Henry hadnít decided to become a painter, at least in a professional sense, until he was nearly thirty years old. By the early sixties he was garnering good reviews from
newspaper and magazine critics and making enough money in
gallery sales to live without resorting to the indignity of a job. To the public, Faulkner was the eccentric rebel who brought his bourbon drinking goat Alice to parties and exhibitions of his paintings. Apart from the obvious striving for attention, his bizarre behavior was the natural expression of an unceasing and unblushing childlike wonder at the world around him, and of an unusual sensitivity to beauty." (excerpt from; The Outrageous Life of Henry Faulknerwritten by Charles House)
Ferrante, Mario de
(Italian/American, 1898-1992) Studied with Antonio Mancini in Italy before coming to the United States in 1922. The Futurists, led by Fillipo Tommaso Marinetti, belived that it was crucial to tear down all traditions of past painting philosophy (manifestos were written regarding art, music, literature, drama, etc), and begin a new technical and artistic endeavor. His work is in the collections of the Library of Congress, U.S. Bureau of Information (Wash. DC), Princeton, Yale, and Brigham Young Universities.
Feyen, Jacques Eugene
(French, 1815-1908) Genre painter known for his scenes of harbors, beaches, and fishermen.
Fournier, Alexis Jean
(American, 1865-1948) Fournier was a member of the Roycrofters in East Aurora, New York. He exhibited primarily landscapes at the Hoosier Salon, National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Buffalo Art Club. He also painted in Brown County, Indiana.
Fredricks, Ernest
(American, early 20th century) Chicago landscape painter. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1924-26).
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Gallerein, Jacques Hans
(American, b. 1888) Gallrein was born in Germany, and was influenced early in his career by Franz von Stuck and Arnold Boecklin. He emigrated to the U.S. and worked in New York for some time before moving to Oklahoma. Throughout the 1960s-70s, Gallrein won much recognition and received numerous awards for his artwork.
Galvan, Jesus Guerrero
(Mexican, 1910-1973) Galvan was a member of the “Banderas de Provincia" group in Jalisco, made up of painters, writers and poets such as Raúl Anguiano, José Guadalupe Zuno y Agustín Yáñez. Around 1930 he settled in Mexico City, where he came into contact with some of the painters of the nationalist revolutionary school. He exhibited at the Galería de Arte Mexicano in 1941. He was the artist-in-residence at the University of New Mexico in Alburquerque as a resident artist, where he did the fresco entitled The Union of the Americas Associated for Freedom. Because he was considered a master of the Mexican school of painting an exhibition was held in homage to him in the Museo de Arte Moderno of Mexico City in 1977.
Gardner, Fred
(American, 1880-1952) New York artist. Graduated from Pratt Institute's Architectural School in Brooklyn and work as an architect and designer in New York. He came under the influence of John Sloan and became involved with the Society of Independent Artists in 1920. Gardner spent time traveling and painting in the Southwest in the 20's and later throughout Florida, New England, Canada, and New Mexico.
Gisson, Andre
(French, b.1928) Contemporary sources cite Andre Gisson as being French and born in 1910. It was he who led to this misinformation. As a struggling young impressionist painter growing up in Brooklyn, he adopted a French name, from Gittelman, and picked an earlier birthdate to increase his chances for success. Gisson specialized in light, colorful street, and garden scenes.
Grafton, Robert
(American, 1876-1936) Indiana/New Orleans artist. Grafton studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Academie Julian. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Delgado Museum, New Orleans Art Association, Richmond Art Association, and the Hoosier Salon. His work is in numerous important public collections in the South and the Midwest. This is an exceptional example of Grafton's work depicting his wife and his daughter, Patricia. Graftonís wife was from Michigan City, Indiana, and they resided there for several years.
Gussow, Bernard
(American, 1881-1957) Gussow, born in Russia, moved to the U.S. to study at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. He exhibited throughout the 1930s-40s, at the Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, Library of Congress, International Armory Show (1912), and the World's Fair new York (1939). His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.
Hartrath, Lucie
(American, 1868-1962) Important Chicago and Indiana area impressionist. Hartrath studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Vanderpoel. She exhibited as early as 1901, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. She also exhibited at the Hoosier Salon, Paris Salon, and the Chicago Municipal Art League. Hartrath visited Brown County, Indiana in 1908, and then painted there regularly.
Hepp, Carl
(American, mid-20th century) St. Louis Modernist painter. Hepp worked with Werner Drewes, Max Beckmann, and Siegfried Reinhardt at the St. Louis School of Fine Art (1940s-50s).
Hetherington, Alfred
(American, b. 1868) Hetherington worked on Monhegan Island in Maine. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Corcoran Gallery in the early 1930s.
Hiler, Hilaire
(American/French, 1898-1966) Hiler studied in the U.S. before leaving for France in 1919. There, he studied at the University of Paris and ran a jazz club. He moved to San Francisco in the 1930s, and executed murals for the WPA. He spent some time in L.A. before returning to Paris. He became interested in “structuralism" in art, and a balance of form and color in the latter part of his career.
Johansen, John Christen
(American, 1876-1964) Chicago painter. Johansen studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Academie Julian, Paris. He exhibited extensively from 1902-48, and his work is in numerous public collections, including that of the White House, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.
Johnson, Harry
(American, b. 1876) Son of a Scottish woolen merchant, who later went on become very wealthy, of Fulton Street, New York City. Harry from a young age spent his spare time drawing and painting. When his father died, he succeeded him in business. In addition to his ability as a painter his wealth made him a desirable friend to many eatern artists of that time, who he helped repeatedly. In addition to his own works his collection included works by George Inness, J.F. Murphy, Ralph Blakelock, H.W. Ranger, and many others.
Jones, Joe
(American, 1909-1963) Jones worked in Missouri and was a good friend of Thomas Hart Benton. The two artist's painting style was very similar through the 1930s and early 1940s, but Jones developed a more contemporary style in the late 1940s. Jones favored a minimal, almost two-dimensional approach in his later work.
Judson, William Lees
(American, 1842-1928) Judson came to the U.S. in 1852, and served in the Illinois State Militia during the Civil War. He worked in California in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries, painting Indians and coastal landscapes.
Juergens, Alfred
(American, 1866-1934) Oak Park, IL painter. Juergens studied in Chicago and at the Royal Academy in Munich. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Pan-Pacific Expo (1915), Munich Artist Association, and in Madrid, Spain. His work is in numerous public collections in Chicago, including the Cliff Dwellers Club, Union League Club, and the Womens City Club.
Keil, Peter Robert
(German, 20th century) Keil is with Elvira Bach, Rainer Fetting, and Georg Baselitz in the Grossen Wilden of Berlin. He studied with Otto Nagel, Berlin Academy of Fine Art, and with Miro on Mallorca.
Klein, Medard
(American, 1905-2002) Klein exhibited regularly at the Museum of Non-Objective Art (Guggenheim), Art Institute of Chicago, National Academy of Design, Laguna Beach Art Association, Oakland Art Gallery and the Institute of Design. Similarly to the work of Kandinsky, Klein’s paintings were influenced by auditory and symphonic experiences. His studio held a large collection of recorded classical music. Klein maintained his paintings sought "...an emotional response not greatly different from that evoked by the abstractions of music."
Kostabi, Mark
(American, b. 1960) Kostabi was born in Los Angeles. He moved to New York in the 1980s, and became a central figure in the East Village art scene. He was closely associated with Andy Warhol, and created Kostabi World, a studio/gallery comprised of artists and "idea people" to assist in his work.
Kozman, Myron
(American, 1916-2002) Kozman was friend of Moholy-Nagy and taught silkscreen at the Institute of Design. He was one of the first graduates of the Institute of Design, and his work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Library of Congress, and the Bloch Gallery (Northwestern). REF: Vision and Motion , Moholy-Nagy.
Krafft, Carl Rudolph
(American, 1884-1938) Krafft studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Fine Arts Academy. He was a prolific painter and was active in numerous art organizations, including the Chicago Galleries Association, Cliff Dwellers, Oak Park Art League, Painters and Sculptors of Chicago, and the Society of Ozark Painters. He exhibited from the 1910s-30s, primarily landscape paintings which sometimes included figures. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Art Institute of Chicago (1915-1925), and the Corcoran Museum (Washington D.C.). His work is included in numerous important public collections, including the University of Illinois, Richmond, Indiana Art Association, Nineteenth Century Womenís Club, Los Angeles Museum, Municipal Art league (Chicago), and South Shore Country Club. Krafft maintained a studio in Oak Park, Illinois, but he also traveled to Brown County, Indiana, and the Missouri Ozarks. This is a very desirable subject for this artist.
Manior, Irving K.
(American, b. 1891) Manior studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and exhibited there before moving to California. He lived in Corona del Mar, and exhibited at the Laguna Beach Art Association and the Pasadena Art Institute.
McKinnie, Mirriam
(American, 1906-1987) St Louis WPA era painter and printmaker.
Mcvicker, J. Jay
(American, b.1911) Oklahoma painter. McVicker studied at Oklahoma State University, and eventually taught there. He painted traditional regionalism in the 1940s, and moved into abstraction later in his career. He exhibited extensively from the 1940s-70s at the Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.
Meert, Joseph
(American, 1905-1989) He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and at the Art Students League with John Sloan, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Thomas Hart Benton. He was a member of the American Artists Congress and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Corcoran Gallery, Worldís Fair New York 1939 (purchase prize); Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, 44th Street Gallery, New York, 1948; Artists Gallery, New York, 1949 (first solo show in New York); ìNYC WPA Artî at Parsons School of Design, 1977; Pollock-Krasner House, 1994 (solo). His work is included in the collections of WPA post office murals. Abstract expressionist and friend of Jackson Pollock and others of Thomas Bentonís circle of ASL students. Meert painted social realist works early in his career before turning to abstraction.
Merriam, James
(American, 1880-1951) Merriam moved to Los Angeles in 1920, and lived there until his death. He painted deserts, mountains, and missions. nw add ex edu
Micheli, G. Armando
(American, early 20th century) Chicago modernist painter. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago 1928-29, 1933. Striking Chicago subject matter.
Milleson, Royal Hill
(American, 1849-1935) Milleson worked in Indianapolis in the 1890s, and in Chicago from 1900-1923. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, and his work is in the collections of the Herron Art Institute and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Mosler, Henry
(American, 1841-1920) Born in New York City, Henry Mosler became a well-known illustrator and painter of portraits and genre scenes. His parents were Jewish immigrants, and he moved with them to Cincinnati in 1851. He studied there with James Beard; in Dusseldorf with H. Mucke and A. Kindler from 1863 to 1865; in Paris with E. Hebert; and in Munich with Karl von Piloty.
He first earned recognition in the early 1860s as an illustrator during the Civil War for Harper's Weekly. After that he went to Europe for art study and returned in 1866 to Cincinnati where he became a successful portraitist. In 1874, he returned to Munich and in 1877, established a studio in Paris where he became famous for his peasant genre scenes of Brittany and Normandy. His narrative work, "The Return," exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1879, was the first painting by an American purchased by the French government. In 1894, he moved to New York City.
He exhibited extensively including at the National Academy of Design in New York, the Royal Academy in Munich, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Niemann, Edward E.
(American, b. 1909) New York artist known for abstract paintings. He studied at the Art Students League of New York and the National Academy of Design. Associationed with Salons of America and a member of the Society of Independent Artists. Exhibited: National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy,Salons of America, Society of Independent Artists
Ostuni, Peter W.
(American, 1908-1992) Although Ostuni was a painter, he may be best known for his works in glass. He studied at the Cooper Union, and exhibited paintings and stained glass throughout the 1950s-70s.
Pels, Albert
(American, 1910-1998) Pels was born in Cincinnati, and studied at the Cincinnati Academy of Art and the University of Cincinnati. He also studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League in New York. He worked as a WPA artist in the 1930s, painting murals, and exhibited extensively across the country from the 1930s-60s.
Perri, Frank
(American, early 20th century) Perri immigrated from Italy to Chicago around 1930. He exhibited at the Carnegie Institute of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, and was President of the Oak Park Artists League. He traveled to Mexico in the late 1930s.
Peyraud, Frank C.
(American, b. 1858) Important Chicago area landscape painter. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and in Paris. He exhibited from the 1890s-1920s, at the Chicago Society of Artists, Pan-Pacific Expo (San Francisco, 1915), and the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is in the collections of the Union League, Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago. Peyraud also worked in California.
Politi, Leo
(American, 1908-1996) Los Angeles painter. Politi studied at the Milan Art Institute. He was a member of the Los Angeles Painters and Sculptors, and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Society of Independent Artists, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was also a well known illustrator.
Priebe, Karl
(American, 1914-1976)He studied at the Layton School of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Priebe served on the anthropology staff at the Milwaukee Public Museum from 1938-1942 and was the director of the Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts from 1943-1944. He then returned to the Layton School of Art in 1947 to serve as an instructor. During his career, Priebe won the prestigious Prix de Rome (1941), received critical acclaim for his paintings in New York, and gained recognition as a leader of the emerging "fantasist" school.
Reed, Esther Silber
(American, b.1900) St. Louis artist. Exhibited at the St.
Louis Artist Guild, and worked as a painter and illustrator.
Reedy, Leonard Howard
(American, 1899-1956) Well known western painter, frequently worked in watercolor. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Art.
Reinhardt, Siegfried
(German/American, 1925-1984) Important St. Louis modernist painter and designer. Reinhardt executed several murals in the St. Louis area, including a large commission of the history of flight at Lambert Airport.
Roberts, Hermine
(American, b. 1892) Graphic artist, painter, and teacher. Roberts studied at West Forsyth, East Steinhof, Universtiy of Indiana. Member of Southern Printmakers, Indiana Society Printmakers, and Hoosier Salon. Taught at Montana State schools.
Schanker, Louis
(American, 1903-1981) Highly important WPA non-objective printmaker. Schanker was a member of the American Abstract Artists (NYC) and the American Art Congress. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, National Academy of Design, and the Whitney Museum. REF: Dictionary of Abstract Painters.
Schmidt, Carl
(American, 1885-1969) A painter and muralist in Impressionist style whose specialties were desert landscapes, Indians, still lifes, portraits, religious and historical genre, Carl Schmidt was born in 1885 in Charles, Minnesota and died in 1969 in San Bernardino, California, where he resided from 1924. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and was a member of the Laguna Beach Art Association; Los Angeles Art Association; and the San Bernardino County Art Association. A mural by the artist Trinity Methodist Church of San Bernardino. His solo exhibitions: Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; San Bernardino Cultural Center; Los Angeles County Museum, L.A., CA.
Schwartz, Lester
(American, b. 1912) Chicago painter. Schwartz exhibited and later taught at the Art Institute of Chicago (1930s-40s).
Scott, Jonathan
(English, 1914-1995) Studied at Heatherly School of Art, London; Heymann School, Munich; Academia Florence, Italy. Taught at the University of Southern California, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena School of Fine Arts, Riverside Art Center, Laguna Beach School of Art. Collections include the College of Sante Fe, New Mexico; Lindsay Art Center, in California; Harwood Library, Taos; U.s Navy Art Collection, and many private collections.
Scott, William Eduoard
(American, 1884-1964) Highly important African-American painter. Scott was a close friend and student of H.O. Tanner. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and worked primarily in Chicago. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, American Negro Expo, Los Angeles Museum, Harmon Foundation, and the Smithsonian Museum. His work was showcased in a traveling exhibition, "A Shared Heritage: Art by Four African-Americans", which originated at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Scott spent time in Haiti, and a great deal of his work is devoted to this subject matter.
Sebree, Charles
(American, b. 1914) African-American painter. Sebree exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1930s-40s. He also exhibited Katharine Kuh Gallery, American Negro Exposition (Chicago, 1940), Howard University, and the South Side Community Art Center (Chicago).
Senseman, Raphael
(American, 1870-1965) Well known as a watercolorist from the Washington D.C. area. Senseman was the nephew of 19th century artist, William Lippencott. REF: McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.
Shulz, Ada Walter
(American, 1870-1928) Shulz began her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1889, under John Vanderpoel. She traveled with Vanderpoel's class in the summer of 1892 to Delavan, Wisconsin, where she met her future husband, Adolph Shulz. In 1894, the two were married, and remained in Delavan for the next twenty years, although they began summering in Brown County, Indiana in the 1910s. They moved there permanently in 1917. Adolph specialized in landscape painting, and Ada chose the mothers and children of Brown County as her subjects.
Smith, Harry C.
(American, 1882-1957)
Born in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Harry C Smith became a self-taught artist, known for his desert and mountain landscapes. He was a successful businessman, who was living in southern California by 1920, and by the 1940s, he had moved to Bakersfield where he founded the Bakersfield Art Association. He painted with John Cotton, F. Grayson Sayre, Paul Lauritz, Elmer and Marion Kavanagh Wachtel and many more. He is noted for his frames. The above named artists would have Smith handcraft and gild frames for their artwork.
Speer, Ray
(American, 20th century) Speer lived and worked in East St Louis, and exhibited mostly locally from the 1940s-70s. A great deal of his paintings depicted African-American subjects.
Speiss-Ferris, Eleanor
(American, contemporary) Contemporary Chicago painter.
Spelman, John Adams
(American, 1880-1941) Chicago landscape painter. He was a member of the Oak Park and River Forest Art League, Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors, and the Chicago Gallery Association. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Oak Park Art League, and the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art. His work is in the collections of the Chicago Athletic Club, University of Nebraska, Illinois State Museum (Springfield) and the Springfield Art Association.
Spiers, Harry
(American, 1869-1947) Important watercolorist working in the tonalist aesthetic. He studied at the Academie Julian, Paris, and was a member of the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters. His work is in the Boston Museum of Fine Art.
Sterba, Antonin
(American, 1875-1963) Chicago/Southwest painter.
Svendson, Sven
(Norwegian/American, b. 1864) Studied at the Ed. Ertz at Academie Delecluse, Paris, 1890s. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1895-1920), Nashville Expo (1897), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (1898-1900), and the Milch Galleries, NY (1920s).
Sylvester, Frederick Oakes
(American, 1869-1915) Sylvester lived in Elsah, IL, a small town overlooking the river. He studied in Boston, and exhibited at the St Louis Artist Guild, St Louis Expo (1904), Portland Expo (1905), and the Society of Western Artists (Chicago, 1906). He was the author of the book, ìThe Great Riverî . He also taught at Newcomb College.
Tasker, Stanley
(American, mid 20th century) Tasker taught at Washington University in St Louis, and later worked in Florida.
Tomanek, Joseph
Chicago area artist, well known for his nudes. Tomanek studied in his homeland of Czechoslovakia, and then at the Art Institute of Chicago, with A. Krehbiel and K.A. Buehr. He was a member of the Bohemian Artist Club, Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors, and the Chicago Gallery Association. His work is included in the collection of the Vanderpoel Art Association (Chicago). He exhibited from the 1910s-40s.
Tucker, Allen
(American, 1866-1939) Tucker was a painter and architect, although he abandoned architectural work around 1904. He studied painting with John Twachtman at the Art Students League. Tucker became a charter member of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the group responsible for organizing the 1913 Armory Show in New York, which included five paintings by Tucker. His first one-man show was held at the Whitney Studio Club (which later became the Whitney Museum) in 1918. Tuckerís use of light and color reveals his admiration of Van Goghís paintings. His work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum, and the Albright-Knox.
Tucker, Ethel
(British, 1874-1962) . She and her sister lived and painted in Bermuda.
Ulreich, Eduoard Buk
(Austrian/American, b. 1889) International style artist and designer. Ulreich exhibited in Vienna and Paris in the 1920s-30s. He executed murals in Radio City Music Hall and the Century of Progress Expo in Chicago. He eventually settled in San Francisco.
Wallas, Lee
(American, 20th century) St. Louis painter, active 1940s-70s.
Weil, Arthur
(American, b. 1883) Evanston, Illinois painter. Weil studied in Italy, and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1916-20). His work is in the collection of the Canadian Government.
Weil, Sam
(American, 20th century) Indiana painter.
Winfield, Rodney
(American, b. 1925) A painter in acrylic and designer in stain glass and silver, Rodney Winfield was born in New York City and studied at the University of Miami and Cooper Union.
He has done commission pieces including a bronze and steel Ark Wall for Temple Israel in St. Louis and a window for the Washington Cathedral.
From 1953 to 1970, he was a stain glass designer for Emil Frei Associates in St. Louis and from 1970, a designer with Winfield Jewelry. From 1964 to 1990, he was a professor at Maryville University in St. Louis.
Woodroofe, Louise
(American, early 20th century) Woodroofe worked in Champaign, IL, and later taught at the University of Illinois. She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, National Association of Watercolor Painters, Cincinnati Art Museum (1920s), Butler Art Institute, and at galleries in New York.
Wyant, Alexander H.
(American, 1836-1892) Born in Evans Creek, Ohio, Alexander Wyant was a tonalist landscape and genre painter who was part of the Hudson River School painters but who is credited with making the transition within that School from a tight, restrictive style to the freer methods of Impressionism. He was much influenced by the French Barbizon impressionists, and his signature grandiose eastern mountain landscapes with dramatic cloud formations were much sought after during his lifetime.
He was raised in a family of itinerant farmers and early apprenticed to a harness maker and sign painter. His commitment to becoming an artist resulted from his seeing landscapes by George Inness Sr. in an exhibition in Cincinnati in 1857. He made a trip to New York to meet Inness, who recognizing the young man's talent, helped him secure to the patronage of Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati.
This financial help enabled Wyant to study for a year at the National Academy in New York City, where he settled for a short time in 1863. By 1865, he was in Karlsruhe, Germany with Hans Fredrik Gude, a Norwegian artist of the Dusseldorf school. Wyant also lived in England and was much influenced by the landscapes of J.M.W. Turner. In 1867, he returned to New York City where he established a studio and from where he traveled frequently into the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains.
In 1873 he was part of an expedition into New Mexico and Arizona where he painted many sites including Canyon de Chelly in Navajo country. On this trip, he suffered a stroke, which paralyzed his right hand and forced him to paint with his left. It was said that this led to a freer style, lighter tone, and looser technique, all of which paralleled the growing taste of the American public. A critic, Charles Caffin, wrote of his paintings that they were "pregnant with suggestion" and were a "search for the spiritual, poetic side of nature through an expressive simplification of composition and tone." (Lowrey 180)
In 1889, Alexander Wyant moved to Arkville, New York in the Catskills, and died there three years later, in 1892.
He was a member of the Century Association and the National Academy.
Exhibitions included the following venues: :National Academy of Design, 1865-92; Brooklyn Art Association, 1867-92; Boston Arts Club, 1877-82; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1879-81; Art Institute of Chicago; and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Public collections that include Wyant's work can be found in the National Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Tennessee State Museum, and the Kentucky Art Museum.
Young, Purvis
(American, b.1943) African American self taught artist and muralist. Although Purvis Young enjoyed painting as a child it wasn't until he was incarcerated at the age of 18 for armed robbery that he took up drawing again. When Purvis left prison he was inspired by the urban murals of Chicago and Detroit as a way to express his anger and frustration. He wanted to paint the stories of his own neighborhood.
His first public art in the early 70s was the Goodbread Alley project. The art consisted of hundreds of pictures hung on boarded up buildings along Fourteenth Street in Overton, his Miami neighborhood. The heart of the neighborhood had been destroyed when I-395 was routed through the community. Through art Purvis Young has continued to channel his anger at the injustices of our society.
Purvis Young's style is naive, expressionistic and symbolic. He continues to be a prolific painter motivated by the need to express his views of social injustice.
Young is in numerous collections throughout the United States.
Yuan, Si Chen
(Chinese/American, 1911-1974) Born in Hangchow, China on April 4, 1911. Yuan began drawing and painting at a young age. He studied for several years with PÈon Ju at the Central University in Nanking. During the Sino-Japanese War and WWII he worked as an artist in the cultural department for the Nationalists and as a liaison interpreter for the U.S. Air Force. While in Shanghai Yuan adopted the English name Wellington. With the Communists taking control of the country, he left China for Jamaica in 1949. The following year he moved to San Francisco to work as a cook at the Fairmont Hotel. In 1952 he settled on the Monterey Peninsula where he taught Mandarin Chinese at the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio. Several trips to Europe and Mexico were made while maintaining a home and studio in Carmel. Depressed over his broken marriage and lack of recognition for his work, Yuan put a bullet through his head on Sept. 6, 1974. Working in oil and watercolor, he produced still lifes, High Sierra snow scenes, European and Mexican scenes, harbor and beach scenes, and seascapes. His painting style submitted to occidental influence and varied from Impressionism to Abstractionism He is known to have used the pseudonym Zambini. Member: Carmel AA; SWA. Exh: Carmel AA, 1958, 1962, 1974, 1994 (solos); Monterey Co. Fair, 1959 (1st prize), 1966 (1st prize), 1972 (1st prize); Monterey Peninsula Museum, 1967 (1st prize), 1968 (solo); Pacific Grove Art Center, 1972 (solo).
Zilzer, Gyula
(Hungarian/American, 1898-1968 or 9?) The painter and printmaker Gyula Zilzer was born in Budapest and studied art at the Royal Academy of Art there, and also at the Hans Hofmann School of Art in Munich, and in Paris. He exhibited internationally from the mid-1920s onwards, and had solo exhibitions in America at the Los Angeles Art Museum in 1943, and the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, in 1944.
He also worked as a production designer and art director in Hollywood, and worked on numerous films, including "Sahara", 1943, and "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber", 1946. His paintings and prints are in the collections of the British Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; amongst others.
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