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George Loftus Noyes (1864 to 1954)
A Boston school artist best known for his landscapes, George Loftus Noyes plein air paintings adopted the loose brushstrokes of the French Impressionists. Born in Ontario, Noyes moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a child. He started taking painting lessons when he was fifteen from English artist George Bartlett at the Massachusetts Normal School, and had an apprenticeship at the New England Glass Company painting floral designs on glass. [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Women of The Brandywine – Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
The Brandywine Valley, which sweeps from southeasten Pennsylvania into northern Delaware, fostered a wealth of talent at the turn of the 20th century. Howard Pyle, known as “the Father of American Illustration” was beginning his own artistic movement and school in this rural area of the East Coast. Pyle’s romantic imagery in his work was passed on to his female students whom he taught with [...] Click here to continue reading.
Laszlo Neogrady (1896-1962)
Laszlo Neogrady was born in Budapest and spent his artistic career in Hungary. The son of artist Anatal (Laszlo) Neogrady (1861-1942), Laszlo studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and exhibited in Hungary starting in 1922. He preferred to work with evening light and specialized in monumental winter landscapes.
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Eadweard Muybridge
An eccentric British photographic artist with a seemingly unpronounceable name became a household word in 1878. After six years of experimentation, Eadweard Muybridge (1830 to 1904) demonstrated that all four hooves of a horse momentarily leave the ground at a full gallop. With 50 cameras all armed with electrically triggered shutters, Muybridge introduced stop motion photography to a skeptical nineteenth century. California Governor Leland Stanford underwrote the “flying horse” demonstration, which took [...] Click here to continue reading.
Hermann Dudley Murphy (American, 1867 to 1945)
Boston School artist, Hermann Dudley Murphy began his studies at the Museum School in Boston with Edmund Tarbell and Frank Benson. In 1891 he went to Paris where he attended the Academie Julian and studied with Jean-Paul Laurens. While in Paris, Murphy met James Abbott McNeil Whistler and was inspired by the palette, tonality, and compositions of the artist. Murphy, like Whistler, began to create his own [...] Click here to continue reading.
Marcus Mote
Marcus Mote (1817 to 1898) was born to a well established Ohio Quaker family, though he broke with tradition by eloping with Rhoda Steddon, which earned the couple a temporary banishment from the meeting. Mote did not follow the cabinetmaking path of his father, turning his attention, instead, to painting. He earned his living largely as a portrait painter (and later a photographer), though like many late nineteenth century artists, became transfixed [...] Click here to continue reading.
Joseph Morris Raphael (1869 to 1950)
Joseph Raphael first studied in San Francisco at the School of Design under Arthur Mathews and Douglas Tilden. At the turn of the 20th century, he traveled to France to study at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts and Academie Julian. He remained in Europe for 37 years, returning to the United States when World War II broke out. He painted from a San Francisco studio until his death in [...] Click here to continue reading.
Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 to 1980)
Sister Gertrude Morgan was a preacher, missionary, musician and most notably, a self-taught folk artist. She was born in Lafayette, Alabama and at the age of thirty-eight heard a voice from God telling her to become a street preacher. She left her family and moved to New Orleans, where she organized an orphanage with two other missionaries. Inspired by what she called the “Divine Word” she dressed in [...] Click here to continue reading.
Mary DeNeale Morgan (1868-1948)
Born in San Francisco in 1868, where she was a favorite pupil of William Keith, Mary DeNeale Morgan is best remembered for her contributions to the Carmel art community, where she moved circa 1910. Morgan attended summer classes in Carmel that were led by William Merritt Chase in 1914, and was the Director of the Carmel School of Art from 1917 to 1925. Equally facile in watercolor, gouache, and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Henry Moret (French 1856-1913)
Originally from Normandy, Henry Moret discovered the charms of Brittany during his military service when he was stationed at Lorient. In 1881 he went to Pont-Aven where he met many artists but was ultimately most influenced by his friendship with Gauguin. The loosely affiliated group of artists who would become known as the School of Pont-Aven would emphasize the expressive power of colors, simplified shapes and strong contours. It [...] Click here to continue reading.
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