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George Catlin (1796-1872) George Catlin was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania in 1796. He was the first American artist of stature to visit and depict the Plains Indians on his own and spent about eight years (1824 to 1836) traveling among the 48 North American Indian Tribes, including tribes in Alaska. His sketches and paintings are the first and most important record of land west of the Mississippi River before white settlement. His goal [...] Click here to continue reading. Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) Mary Cassatt was born in 1844 in Pennsylvania and spent her childhood there until 1851 when she moved to Europe with her mother where she studied in a number of cities until 1858. She returned to the states to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1861 to 1865 but decided France was best suited for her career and she moved there in 1866 for the remainder of her [...] Click here to continue reading. John William Casilear (1811-1893) An important painter of the Hudson River School, Casilear (1811 to 1893) painted extensively in upstate New York and Vermont. He studied under Asher B. Durand (1796 to 1886) in 1831 and in 1840 he traveled to Europe for three years with Durand and John F. Kensett (1816 to 1872). Casilear was originally trained as a banknote engraver, but by 1854 switched to painting full-time as his celebrity increased. From [...] Click here to continue reading. Alexander (Sandy) Calder (1898-1976) Alexander Calder was born in Pennsylvania to a family of famous artists, his grandfather being Alexander Milne Calder (1846 to 1923), a sculptor, his father was Alexander Stirling Calder (1870 to 1945), also a sculptor, and his mother Nanette Lederer Calder was a painter. He began his studies in 1914 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, then he studied and worked in Paris for several years [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas Mickell Burnham (American, 1818 to 1866) Raised in Boston, Thomas Burnham did a famous painting called “The Lewis and Clark Expedition,” which is at the Whitney Gallery of the Buffalo Bill Historical Museum in Cody, Wyoming. He lived in Detroit, Michigan, where he became a sign painter and also gained some success as a portraitist and painter of genre scenes and landscapes. In the mid 19th century, he returned to Boston and then [...] Click here to continue reading. Elbridge Ayer Burbank Elbridge Burbank was a tireless and prolific painter of the North American Indian, who began work in the period after the close of the frontier in the 1890′s and continued well into this century. The Indians Burbank painted nicknamed the artist “Many Brushes,” and it is estimated that he worked among as many as 125 tribes, exhibiting more than 1,200 works in his lifetime. Burbank was born and raised in Illinois, [...] Click here to continue reading. Virginia Fouche Bolton (1929-2004) An important member of South Carolina’s art community for over forty years, Virginia Fouche Bolton was a graduate of Winthrop College. In 1951 she married and settled in Mt. Pleasant. Ten years and five children later, she began teaching at the St. John the Baptist parochial school. Teaching everything from English to Science, Bolton soon went on to Moultrie and Wando High Schools where her teaching career expanded to art [...] Click here to continue reading. Aaron Bohrod (1907 – 1992) Aaron Bohrod was known for a range of work in watercolor and gouache that included realist figures in cityscapes, landscapes, Surrealism, and trompe l’oeil painting, Aaron Bohrod spent his early career in Chicago, where he was born. In 1948, he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he became a long-time a member of the art faculty and satisfied the inclinations of many artists who leaned towards European-influenced modernism. In this [...] Click here to continue reading. Claude Curry Bohm (1894-1971) Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Bohm studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1910s. He began visiting Brown County around 1920, usually spending part of the summer there. He specialized in landscapes, and exhibited at the Hoosier Salon, Art Institute of Chicago, Brown County Art Gallery Association, Chicago Municipal Art League, and the Chicago Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art. His work is included in the collections [...] Click here to continue reading. Pruett A. Carter (1891 to 1955) The paintings of Pruett Carter rarely concentrated on the mechanics of a particular moment of action. Rather, his compositions were concerned with intellect and emotion which in turn were the focus for the clients for whom Carter did his best work. His illustrations for Ladies’ Home Journal, Woman’s Home Companion, McCall’s and American Magazine were less concerned with plot than with character. From Carter’s start as an [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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