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Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000)
Schulz is the most widely syndicated cartoonist in history, with his work appearing in over 2,300 newspapers. He has published more than 1,400 books, won Peabody and Emmy awards for his animated specials, and is responsible for the most-produced musical in the American theatre, entitled “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown”. And all this diversity and recognition and continuous success began 45 years ago when the United Feature Syndicate ran [...] Click here to continue reading.
Karl Schuch (1846-1903)
A genre and still-life painter, Schuch began his artistic studies at the Academy in Vienna. He later traveled to Munich, and became associated with fellow artists Hans Thoma and Wilhelm Trubner. When Schuch returned to Paris, he came under the stylistic influence of the famed painter Gustave Courbet.
Christian Adolf Schreyer (German, 1828 to 1899)
Noted Orientalist and genre painter Adolf Schreyer (also referred to as Christian Adolf Schreyer) was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1828. After early education at the Institut Staedel in Frankfurt, he studied at the Academy in Dusseldorf, then settled in Vienna in 1849. During the Crimean War (1853-1856) Schreyer followed the Austrian Army through the Wallachian frontier as a sketch artist.(1) Schreyer went on to study in [...] Click here to continue reading.
Georges Schreiber (1904-1977)
Born in Brussels, Belgium in 1904, Schreiber, over the course of his career, became a thoroughly American artist. Growing up in war-torn Europe, Schreiber was profoundly impacted by the horrors he witnessed. As a family of German descent living in Belgium during the First World War, the Schreibers were scorned by their neighbors; when they later returned to Germany, however, they were despised as Belgians. “All this has made me conscious [...] Click here to continue reading.
Charles Schorre
Charles Schorre was born in Cuero, Texas. In 1948, he received a BFA degree from The University of Texas at Austin and moved to Houston shortly thereafter. Schorre became an instructor at the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 1949 and taught until 1955. Later, he served as an Assistant Professor of Fine Art at Rice University from 1960 to 1972. Schorre is most known for wildly expressive [...] Click here to continue reading.
Frank Earle Schoonover (American, 1877 to 1972)
Frank Schoonover is well known as one of America’s great illustrators. His journeys into the wilderness of Canada, Alaska and the American West provided the subject matter for his prolific output of illustrations and paintings and made him a leader of the Golden Age of Illustration during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Schoonover’s illustrations can be found in hundreds of popular books and magazines of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864)
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was one of the United States’ earliest geologists, ethnologists, and antiquarians. Born in Albany County, New York, he attended both Union and Middlebury Colleges. After a failed attempt at career in glassmaking, his propensity for geology and mineralogy inspired him to explore Missouri and Arkansas. This trip resulted in his 1819 publication, A View of the Lead Mines of Missouri. Additional explorations in the upper Mississippi Valley [...] Click here to continue reading.
Walter Elmer Schofield (1867-1944)
W. E. Schofield, or “Elmer” as he was known to his many friends, was undoubtedly one of the leading proponents of what has come to be described as Pennsylvania Impressionism.
Born in Philadelphia in 1867, he studied at Swarthmore College for a year before re-locating to San Antonio, Texas to work on a ranch – a characteristically bold move for an artist whose life, more than any other Pennsylvania [...] Click here to continue reading.
Wilhelm Schimmel
Wilhelm Schimmel, regarded today as one of America’s most famous folk carvers, was a colorful itinerant who roamed throughout the Cumberland Valley region of Pennsylvania in the latter half of the nineteenth century. He likely immigrated to America from the Hesse-Darmstadt region of Germany.
Over the course of at least 21 years, from 1869 to 1890 the year he died, Schimmel stayed with families mostly of German descent. He moved from farm [...] Click here to continue reading.
Paul Sawyier (American, 1865 to 1917)
Paul Sawyier was born the son of a physician in Madison County, Ohio, but his family relocated to Frankfurt, Kentucky, when he was young. Paul’s early inclinations towards art were cultivated by his parents, and in 1884, Sawyier enrolled in the Cincinnati Art School. Within two years, he had opened a studio in Cincinnati. After studying under William Merritt Chase at Art Students League in New York, [...] Click here to continue reading.
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