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Jonathan Greenwood Born in Boston in 1727, Jonathan Greenwood worked as an engraver, and was a self-taught portrait painter there during his early career. In 1752, Greenwood departed Boston for Surinam on the northeast shoulder of South America, where he painted portraits for the next five years. By 1758, Greenwood was working as an engraver in Holland, and later ended up in London, where he became an art dealer in 1762 . Reference [...] Click here to continue reading. Jacob Greenleaf (1887-1968) Jacob Greenleaf was born in Estonia in 1887 and studied at the Vilno, Russia Art School and in Paris for two years. He became an active painter in the Rockport/ Somerville area of Massachusetts. He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, The North Shore Art Association, the Rockport Art Association and the Copley Society. His work was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1948, [...] Click here to continue reading. Horatio Greenough (1805 -1852) – The Yankee Stonecutter Horatio Greenough was born in Boston the son of an early real estate developer. Despite an early penchant for sculpting, his father sent him to Harvard to receive a traditional education. While there, Greenough continued in his artistic pursuits, including winning a competition to design the Bunker Hill Monument. Though Greenough’s design was chosen, it was modified and the construction was overseen by competing artist Solomon [...] Click here to continue reading. The Women of the Brandywine – Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954) 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 [...] Click here to continue reading. 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. Samuel Gragg, Chairmaker The son of a wheelwright, Samuel Gragg was born in Peterborough, New Hampshire in 1772 and made chairs in Boston from 1801. He died in 1855. Gragg is best known for his “Patent” bentwood “Elastic” chairs, for which he received a Federal patent in 1808. He also made “bamboo, fancy and commmon Chairs and Settes – all made of the best materials in the most faithful manner” as set forth in [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876-1936) As a child, Robert Grafton was adopted by his mother’s second husband and took his last name. When Grafton was eighteen years old and pursuing a career as an artist, he returned to his place of birth in England, and for a short time assumed his birth father’s name of McCune. Shortly upon returning to America, he gave up the name Robert McCune and used his adopted name of Robert [...] Click here to continue reading. Carl Christopher Graf (American, 1892-1947) Carl Graf studied at the Herron Art Institute with Forsyth, and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Art Students League. He was the first president of the Brown County Art Gallery Association, formed in 1926. He painted landscapes and still lifes, and exhibited at the Hoosier Salon. Grace Nicholson, Dealer and Photographer Grace Nicholson, active 1902 to 1915, was a California dealer in American Indian art at the turn of the century who used photography to document the pieces of art she bought and sold and the artists who created them. She was sympathetic to the American Indian and stated once, We must recognize the Indian as an individual and not a tribe. (Palmquist 1997: 239). Much of Nicholson’s photography and [...] 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. |
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