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Werner Drewes (1899-1985)
An important American modern painter and printmaker, Werner Drewes was born in Niederlausitz, Germany on July 27, 1899 and first came to California in 1926. He was highly influenced by the printmaking tradition of the German Expressionists, and continued his craftsmanship at the Bauhaus. He became close friends with Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, and Oskar Schlemmer.
Drewes moved to New York in 1930, met Katherine Drier, and became involved [...] Click here to continue reading.
Clement Drew (American, 1806 to 1889)
Clement Drew was a noted Massachusetts marine painter, figurehead carver, photographer, and art dealer.
Grace Gebbie Wiederseim Drayton, (1877 to 1936) Author / illustrator
Grace Gebbie Wiederseim Drayton was known for Fido, Kitty Puss, and other children’s books. She created Toodles and Pussy Pumpkins,” “Dimples,” and “Pussycat Princess,” “Dolly Dingle,” and illustrated many series in magazines. Her “funny babies” were the mainstay of her tremendous popularity, but she is undoubtedly best-known for her Campbell Soup Kids. According to the Dictionary of Women Artists, she is considered [...] Click here to continue reading.
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922)
Arthur Wesley Dow was one of the most influential art teachers of his generation. His teaching and writings profoundly affected American painting, printmaking, ceramics and photography. But all of his instruction would have been less effective were it not for his own example as a painter and printmaker who was an important forerunner of Modernism.
Over the course of his career Dow’s own art drew inspiration from, and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Henry Dousa (American, 1820 to after 1892)
French-born Henry Dousa (born circa 1845) is a somewhat enigmatic folk artist. Early accounts describe him as friendless, a difficult husband, and his works as “amusingly stiff.” He lived most of his life in Lafayette, Indiana, removing temporarily to New Castle, but returning to Lafayette where he later died. He worked in a variety of media, including oil, pastel, and watercolor, and he executed “portraits” of livestock, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Paul Dougherty (1877-1947)
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Paul Dougherty became a famous painter of dramatic marine scenes and desert landscapes although his family hoped he would become a lawyer.
Following his father who was an attorney, he graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1896 and New York Law School in 1898. But he changed professions to art and studied with Robert Henri and in Europe for five years from 1900 to 1905.
He [...] Click here to continue reading.
Amos Doolittle (1754-1832)
One of America’s most important early engravers, Amos Doolittle was born in Wallingfor (New Haven), Connecticut on May 8, 1754 and learned the engraving trade as an apprentice silversmith.
A partriot, Doolittle enlisted as a private soldier in the Governor’s Second Company of Guards (Connecticut, Capt. Benedict Arnold, commanding). Hearing about the fighting at Lexington and Concord, forty volunteers of this company marched to Cambridge, Massachusetts, arriving on April 29th, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Gaines Ruger Donoho (1857-1916)
The son of a prosperous plantation owner, Gaines Ruger Donoho was born in Church Hill, Mississippi in December, 1857. The onset of the Civil War, coupled with the death of his father in the early 1860′s, severely disrupted Donoho’s childhood. His mother Julia was of Northern descent, and her relatives arranged for their move at the end of the war. Eventually, they settled in Washington, D.C., where Donoho engaged [...] Click here to continue reading.
Maynard Dixon (1875-1946)
According to noted authority Donald Hagerty, “By the early 1940s, Maynard Dixon had achieved considerable acclaim as one of the West’s leading artists. His long, productive life was a work of art in its own right. From the beginning Maynard Dixon was different, an authentic, iconoclastic, self-created individual. Born in 1875 in Fresno, California, he had no formal academic art training except for three miserable months at San Francisco’s Mark Hopkins [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jim (James) Dine (Born 1935)
Jim Dine is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, born 1935. Dine, a prolific artist, came to prominence in New York from 1959-1960 when he staged a series of “Happenings”, creating action painting and assemblages. His works often repeat a visual theme (hearts) or frequently utilize objects (shoes, toothbrushes), throughout different mediums. Although he used objects from everyday life, he was not a Pop Artist, though he was not [...] Click here to continue reading.
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