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The Delaware or Lenape Tribe
The Delaware, or Lenape, an Algonquin-speaking people, found themselves endlessly relocating and in continuous conflict between Europeans and other American Indian tribes throughout the United State’s formative years. Originally settled along the Susquehanna River, due to Iroquoian insults, disease, and incessant conflicts with the French, British, and Americans, after 1740, the Delaware joined the Shawnee and occupied portions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.
By the 1820s, and after [...] Click here to continue reading.
Adolf Arthur Dehn (American, 1895-1968)
Adolf Dehn was born in Minnesota, studying at the Minnesota School of Art. In 1921 he traveled extensively in Europe to further his artistic education, afterwards settling in New York City. He went on to develop innovative techniques in the medium of lithography, as well as painting landscapes in oils and watercolors.
In 1945, he authored a book “Watercolor Painting”. Dehn ranks among America’s most important American Scene painters [...] Click here to continue reading.
Joseph Decker (1853-1924)
Between 1879 and 1880, Decker studied at the Royal Academy in Munich under Wilhelm Lindenschmidt (1806 to 1848). According to William Gerdts, Decker’s Munich training had a profound impact upon his work. “In one conspicuous sense, the artist Decker who came back from Munich was not the Decker who had arrived there a year earlier. On his return, Decker was a still life painter. He….preferred still lifes of edibles – especially [...] Click here to continue reading.
Maurice Decamps (1892-1953)
Maurice Decamps, a French painter, was a student of the acclaimed landscape artist, Pierre Montezin. He made his debut at the Salon des Artistes Francais at the age of 21, and earned several awards throughout his career, including first place at the Prix de la Savoie (1926), the Prix de la Societe des Paysagistes (1927), the Prix de Raigecourt-Goyon (1929), and the Prix Justin Claverie (1938).
Ralph Earl DeCamp (1858-1936)
Ralph DeCamp was a landscape painter and western illustrator who lived and worked in Montana. He worked in oil and watercolor and painted in many National Parks. In 1912 and 1927 Decamp was commissioned to paint landscape murals for the Montana Capital. He was an acquaintance of Charles Russell and his work can be seen in the C. M. Russell Gallery.
Joseph F. De Yong (American, 1894 to 1975)
Joe De Yong was born in Webster Grove, Missouri. Though he earned his living as a cowboy early on, he had exposure to fame by roping with Will Rogers and making Western movies with Tom Mix. In 1916, he developed a student/teacher relationship with Charles M. Russell and after Charles’ death, Nancy Russell became one of Joe’s best promoters and escalated his career and fame to [...] Click here to continue reading.
Margaret De Patta (1903 to 1964)
Margaret De Patta was a modernist studio jeweler from San Francisco and a prominent figure in the mid-century art jewelry movement. She adhered to Constructivist principles of form and structure in her work, which consists of rectangular planes, interplay of light and shadow, and moving elements. De Patta’s jewelry was selected for the 1946 show at the Museum of Modern Art “Modern Handmade Jewlery”, which also included [...] Click here to continue reading.
Guiseppe De Nittis (Italian, 1846 to 1884)
As an exhibitor at the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874, de Nittis established himself as a chronicler of Parisian life and a painter of park and landscape settings. Although he settled permanently in Paris in 1868, de Nittis had visited the city in 1867 at the time of the Exposition Universelle. While the number of works that he completed at this early date remains unknown, only a [...] Click here to continue reading.
Claude-Francois Auguste de Mesgrigny (French, 1836 to 1884
Born in Paris in 1836, Claude Francois Auguste, Marquis de Mesgrigny, was a student of Maxime Lalanne and Jules Worms. He made his artistic debut at the Paris Salon in 1866 with charcoal drawings and later exhibited “Views of the Environs of Chaubourg” and “View of Spain”.
de Mesgrigny’s first oil paintings appeared in 1870, wherein he demonstrated his admiration of the beauty of the [...] Click here to continue reading.
John Stockton De Martelly, 1903 to 1979.
John de Martelly (Martelli) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1903. Thomas Hart Benton, the famous regionalist painter was one of his art teachers at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. De Martelly also studied in Florence, Italy and London, England. He became a painter, and by 1937 had won prizes, including the Lighton prize for Best Painting by a Kansas City Artist. He also drew [...] Click here to continue reading.
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