February 19, 2008

Thomas Nast - American Artist

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Thomas Nast was a well-known German-American caricaturist as well as editorial cartoonist lived in the 19th century and was called by people as the father of American political cartooning.

He was born in the quarters of Landau, Germany, the son of a instrumentalist in the 9th contingent Bavarian group. His mother took him to New York in 1846. He deliberately studied fine art there for almost a year with Alfred Fredericks in addition to Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Drawing. After school at the age of 15, he started working in 1855 as a architect for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated paper; three years after for Harper’s Weekly.

His primary sober works in drawing was the cartoon “Peace,” intended for against those in the North who disparate the prosecution of the American Civil War. This and his other cartoons during the conflict and restoration days were put into paper called Harper’s weekly. He was well-known for illustrating battlefield in border and southern states.

February 14, 2008

Arthur Quartley – American Artist

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Arthur Quartley was an American painter well-known for his marine seascapes.

Quartley was by birth in Paris and lived there til he completes the age of twelve, when his relatives enthused to Baltimore, Maryland. He learned drawing along with his father C.G. Quartley, who was an English engraver. His father was alleged to have demand two drawings per week from the young boy.

In 1862 Quartley and his family founded a devise firm in Baltimore. The firm Emmart and Quartley was considered as the best decorating company in the city. He held a thriving show of maritime paintings at the studio of Norval H. Busey in Baltimore.

To track his painting more seriously, Quartley went to New York City in 1875. New York at that point had turn out to be a leading center for prominent painters. From there he portrayed seascapes of Long Island bays, New York Port, the New Hampshire Isle of Shoals, and Naragansett Bay in Rhode islet.

January 23, 2008

Thomas Moran – American Artist

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Thomas Moran was an American artist. He was studied at Hudson River School. Thomas Moran’s dream of the Western landscape was important to the creation of Yellowstone National Park. Moran’s watercolor and pencil paintings and drawings detained the greatness and recognized the amazing landscape and natural features of the Yellowstone region. Moran’s artwork was offered to associates of Congress by park proponents. These potent images of Yellowstone excited the thoughts and supported motivate Congress to launch the National Park System in 1916.

January 14, 2008

William Stanley Haseltine – American Artist

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William Stanley Haseltine was born in Philadelphia. He was an American painter and architect who were related among the Hudson River School and Luminism. He was studied at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1854, he completed his degree at the Harvard University. He first illustrate his paintings in Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts after that he moved to Europe, then he joining who were studying in Düsseldorf American painters colony, after that he moved up Rhine Italy and Switzerland. In 1857 he settled in Rome and draws the landscape then he made the lot of excursions for that around Rome and on Capri.

He came back to Philadelphia in 1858. In 1859, he was established in the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York City, and then it was an essential spot for American painters and also in the building was Frederic Edwin Church, then Haseltine having two friends Worthington Whittredge and Albert Bierstadt in Europe. While most of the paintings in Haseltine are derived from his European sketches and also he started to painting the Oceanside of New England, particularly the rockbound coasts of, Massachusetts, Nahant, Narragansett, Rhode Island and Mount Desert Island, Maine. The meticulousness with which he painted these landscapes succeeds grave admire. In 1860, he was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design. In 1861, he was a full Academician.

Haseltine’s spouse expired in childbirth then in 1866 he was remarried. At first his families think about to settling in Paris, but they are moved to Rome in 1867, which would for most of his following years serve up as his home and position of leaving from which to make views of the European landscape. Though his paintings of Sicily and Capri would show admired with visiting American tourists. He also took a trip and drew in Holland, Belgium, France and the Netherlands. In 1899 he makes the final trip to the United States. In 1900 he expired of pneumonia in Rome.

January 4, 2008

Hermann Ottomar Herzog – American Artist

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Hermann Ottomar Herzog was a famous American artist in nineteenth and early twentieth-century for his landscapes. Herzog was born in Bremen; Germany. At the age of seventeen he was entered in to the Düsseldorf Academy. Herzog attained early commercial achievement, let him to travel widely and persist his training. His patrons included nobility and royalty all over Europe. 

After a wide trip to Norway, in 1860, he was settled permanently near by Philadelphia of United States. After that, he takes a trip all over the U.S. and Mexico. In 1873, he was painted his manner throughout the western states, arriving in California. His jobs from this journey contain a series of Yosemite Valley paintings. He received an award for his painting of Sentinel Rock in Yosemite at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. Herzog was also made wide trips for painting to Florida and Maine. For the reason that he was a wise investor, He should not depend on his artwork for sale to maintain a comfortable way of life.

After his death, his family maintains a large number of his paintings, most of which were discharge to the art market in the 1970s. His works are now presented in the collection of the most famous American and European museums.

In 1992, The Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania detained a main exhibition of Herzog’s work and distributed a list of his work, with an article by art historian Donald S. Lewis, Jr.  Herzog’s made more than 1,000 paintings, together with Landscape with a Bear and her Cub and Women in a Tropical Setting in his long life.     

December 26, 2007

Edward Moran – American Artist

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Edward Moran was an American artist. He was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England in 1829.  At the age of 15 he shifted with his family to America, afterward he settled in Philadelphia, where later than having pursued his father’s job of weaver, he became a trainee of Paul Weber and James Hamilton. In 1862 he became a student of the Royal Academy, London. In 1872 he started a studio in New York, after 1877 for many years he lived in Paris. He was an artist of marine subjects and illustration of his work is various major collections. In 1899 along with his canvases are thirteen historical paintings, on purpose to illustrate the marine history of America from the instant of Leif Ericsson toward the return of Admiral Dewey’s fleet from the Philippines. His brothers Peter Moran and Thomas Moran and his sons Leon Moran and Edward Percy Moran also became famous American artists.

December 18, 2007

David Johnson – American Artist

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David Johnson was an American artist was born in New York City; New York. He was a member of the Hudson River School painters in the second generation. He was studied at the antique school of the National Academy of Design for the two years and also studied for a short time with the Hudson River artist Jasper Francis Cropsey. He was famous for the improvement of Luminism, together with John William Casilear and Frederick Kensett. Johnson was demonstrating at the National Academy of Design in New York regularly in 1850. He exhibited expansively in other most important American art centers, as well as Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston. In 1908 he expired in Walden, New York.

December 10, 2007

Robert Scott Duncanson – American Artist

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Robert Scott Duncanson was born in Seneca County, Newyork in 1821 and he was an African American Artist. He is famous for his fresco in the Taft Museum of Art in Ohio, Cincinnati also his further romantic landscape. His landscape paintings are prejudiced by the Hudson River school. Duncanson’s made more of his work in the Detroit, Cincinnati and Michigan area. His portraits comprise that of James G. Birney, editor of the The Philanthropist, an abolitionist senator from Michigan. He painted a landscape based on the sympathetic characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The work of art, titled Uncle Tom and Little Eva were specially made by an abolitionist newspaper editor. Duncanson got a grant from the Anti-Slavery League to learn in Europe the year the painting was over.

Duncanson was well-known for his travels. Moreover Cincinnati, he reside in and voyage to Michigan, Detroit, and illustrate numerous landscape scenes in North Carolina, New England, Scotland, and Pennsylvania. When the American Civil War developed and finished, Duncanson’s situation seeing that a free man of color became especially a part of his consciousness. Due to his light complexion, he was some times mystified as being a white artist. But, Duncanson’s wonderful work caught the eye of critic and his man colleagues.

December 2, 2007

Richard Saltonstall Greenough – American Artists

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Richard Saltonstall Greenough was an American sculptor. He was born in Boston. He was a youngest son of Elisabeth and David Greenough. He was studied at the Boston Latin School. He pursued his brother in a profession in sculpture when he was 17 years. In 1837 he gone for Italy where he feel right to the second generation of American emigrant artists. After that he separated his time among Europe and America, however spent for the most part of his studio life in Rome. In 1846 he was married Sarah Dana of Boston. He is hidden in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome.
At present Greenough’s best famous work is most likely a statue of Benjamin Franklin standing in front of the Old City Hall (Boston).

 

November 22, 2007

Peter F. Rothermel – American Artist

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Peter Frederick Rothermel is an American painter; he was born in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania in 1817. He studied so many places in Europe after that he was studying under Bass Otis and John R. Smith. He was an expert in dramatic historical paintings and portrait. In 1844, he was served up as a Vice President of the Artists’ Fund Society and as well as a Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts since 1847 to 1855.

Rothermel most famed paintings contain a vast oil painting of the Battle of Gettysburg and Patrick Henry before the Virginia House of Burgesses that sling in the Pennsylvania State Museum. This later work was custom-built by David McConaughy lawyer of Gettysburg. In 1844 he was painted another popular historical works is Columbus Before the Queen.
 

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