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Robert Walter Weir (1803-1889) Born in New York City in 1803, Robert Walter Weir studied under John Wesley Jarvis and the English artist Robert Cox. In 1824 he traveled to Italy and studied in Florence for three years. Upon his return to the United States, Weir set up a studio in New York and executed portraiture, genre paintings and Hudson River landscapes. In 1829 he was elected an Academician at the National Academy. Weir [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles T. Webber (American, 1825 to 1911) Charles T. Webber was one of the most influential painters, sculptors and teachers during the Golden Age of Art in Cincinnati in the 19th and early 20th centuries. When Webber’s family moved to Covington, Kentucky in 1858, the artist found work across the river in Cincinnati tinting photographs. Afterward, Webber entered a partnership in a dual photographic/artist’s portrait studio. He was a founding member of the Cincinnati [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles Joseph Watelet (Belgian, 1867-1954) Charles Watelet was a student of J. Portaels and Alfred Stevens. After his debut at the Salon des Artistes Francaise in 1902, when he earned a second class medal, Watelet exhibited frequently; in 1925 he earned a gold medal, and became a non-competing member of the Salon. He was also honored as Chevalier of the Legion d’honneur. Charles Watelet was particularly drawn to the depiction of women in portraiture, [...] Click here to continue reading. Abraham (Abel) George Warshawsky (1883-1962) A Cleveland area impressionist, Warshawsky left Cleveland for New York in 1905, and then expatriated to Paris. He eventually returned to Cleveland in 1910, and taught there with William Sommer. He exhibited vibrantly colorful impressionist works from the 1910′s to 1940′s, and his work is in the collections of Cleveland Museum of Art, Minneapolis Art Institute, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Luxembourg Museum (Paris). Masood Ali Wilbert Warren (1905 – 1995) Afro-American painter and sculptor Masood Ali Warren attended classes at the Art Students League in New York during the early Thirties. A participant in the WPA artists program, he later obtained Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees from NYU (1939) and Temple University (1961), respectively. Examples of his work have been exhibited at the National Academy of Design, American Watercolor Society, and National Arts Club. [...] Click here to continue reading. William Aiken Walker (1838-1921) Born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1838, William Aiken Walker was somewhat of an artistic child prodigy, exhibiting his first oil painting at the South Carolina Institute at age eleven. Over the next decade he produced numerous still lifes, fish and animal works, portraits and landscapes. In 1860 Walker enlisted as a private in Chaleston’s Palmetto Regiment and was discharged a year later on medical grounds. He continued to serve [...] Click here to continue reading. Maria Louisa Wagner (1815-1888) Maria Louisa Wagner was a miniature, portrait, landscape, still life, and genre painter. She and her crippled brother, Daniel, both self-taught artists, worked in the Chenango Valley of New York in the late 1830s. The generous patronage of William H. Seward, later Governor of New York, prompted them to move to Albany in 1842, where they worked until about 1860. While living in the state capital, the pair painted many [...] Click here to continue reading. Fred Wagner (1864 to 1940) A student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Wagner later painted portraits whil living in San Antonio, Texas and Los Angeles. When he returned to Philadelphia in 1902 Wagner took a teaching job at the Philadelphia Academy, and also taught at his own art school. Wagner is recognized as one of the first Pennsylvania Impressionists to paint Bucks County and Chester County landscapes. He won acclaim for his [...] Click here to continue reading. Harold Von Schmidt (1893 to 1982) Harold Von Schmidt was born in Alameda, California and was raised by his grandfather after he was orphaned at the age of 5. His art studies began at the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, then continued at the San Francisco Art Institute. He was athletic as a youth, and competed in the 1920 Olympics as a rugby team member. Later he worked as a lumberjack, a [...] Click here to continue reading. George Louis Viavant (1872-1925) Native New Orleanian George Louis Viavant grew up hunting in the swamps surrounding his father’s hunting lodge on Gentilly Road. Viavant’s appreciation of the flora and fauna of southern Louisiana were reflected in his nature morte watercolors and oil paintings of ducks and turkeys in their native habitats. At the age of twelve, Viavant studied art at Southern Art Union with Achille Perelli, who was known for his sculptures and [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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