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Abbott Fuller Graves (1859-1936) Abbott Graves was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He developed an early interest in flowers after working in a greenhouse. He studied at MIT, and by 1884, he was studying floral painting in Paris, often working with his good friend Edmund Tarbell. He returned to Boston in 1885 and taught at the Cowles Art School in Boston where fellow faculty member Childe Hassam, became an influence on his work. In [...] Click here to continue reading. John Gould (1804-1881) John Gould, one of the most important ornithological illustrators of the 19th century, was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, in 1804. He studied birds and learned taxidermy while assisting his father, a gardener, in the royal gardens of Windsor. Elizabeth Coxen, whom he married in 1829, became his partner in the production of a long series of major natural history monographs distinguished for their fine color plates. After his wife’s death [...] Click here to continue reading. Rudolf Carl Gorman (1932-2005) Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest’s best-known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man’s world with some calling him the “Picasso of Indian artists.” Of this kind of [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert P. Gordy (1933 to 1986) By the mid-1960s, Robert Gordy had developed his individual style of painting, which combines repetitive images and patterns with flat colors. These engaging and often amusing and erotic paintings earned the New Orleans artist national attention and acclaim. In 1967, Gordy was awarded an Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and exhibited in Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Museum of [...] Click here to continue reading. Arthur Clifton Goodwin (American, 1864 to 1929) Arthur C. Goodwin, whose personality alternated between that of a dandy and a destitute alcoholic, was once known as the “Beau Brummel of Chelsea”. In 1900, while watching his artist friend Louis Kronberg at work on a pastel, Goodwin discovered a passion for painting, and at age 30 began the life of an artist. While seeking in his art a refuge from the cruelty of an impoverished [...] Click here to continue reading. Elling William Gollings (1878-1932) The cowboy-painter and etcher Elling William (Bill) Gollings was born in 1878 in Pierce City, Idaho, raised on farms in Michigan and New York and died in 1932 in Sheridan, Wyoming. He worked on ranches throughout Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming. After 1909 he lived and worked in a shack-studio producing his Western art. Anne Wilson Goldthwaite (American/Alabama, 1869 to 1944) Anne Goldthwaite, a native of Alabama who often cited the imagery of the Alabama and Texas landscapes as her earliest memories, would always be grateful for these recollections and her appreciation of the South. After the death of her parents, an uncle, impressed with her talent, offered to pay for her schooling in New York, and Goldthwaite gratefully accepted. She studied at the National Academy of Design [...] Click here to continue reading. Gloria Vanderbilt (born 1924) Gloria Vanderbilt, the “poor little rich girl”, was born into the famous Vanderbilt family of New York. She studied at the Art Students League in New York and has been widely exhibited and her work has been licensed it by Hallmark. She has also designed glassware, silverware, and linens, and a designer line of clothing in the 1970s. She has authored three books, including a memoir of the loss of [...] Click here to continue reading. William James Glackens (1870 to 1938) American Impressionist William Glackens is one of the most influential American painters of the first decades of the 20th century. Circa 1900 he met Robert Henri and they shared a studio for several years. Henri encouraged Glackens to move beyond his initial success as a witty magazine artist-illustrator in Philadelphia and New York to a full-time artist. This led to his participation in the forward thinking group of [...] Click here to continue reading. Andre Gisson (Anders Gittelson) 1921-2003 Well known for his twentieth century views of Paris and Impressionistic landscapes, still lifes and portraits, Andre Gisson was actually born in Brooklyn, New York, as Anders Gittelson in 1921. In the 1940′s Gittelson joined the Army Corps of Engineers and traveled extensively in Japan, Paris and the French countryside helping to repair the damage of World War II. Returning to New York he obtained a scholarship to the [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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