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Everett Franklin Spruce (American, 1908 to 2002) From his earliest days in Conway, Arkansas, Everett Spruce was fascinated with the rural landscape and the creatures which inhabited the hills and hollows during the day, and especially at night when nature’s mystery comes alive. His love of the land and the animals that dwell in it became fully embodied with his discovery of the Big Bend region of Texas. Spruce is Texas’ greatest chronicler [...] Click here to continue reading. John Adams Spelman (American, 1880 to 1940) A Chicago landscape painter, Spelman was a member of the Oak Park and River Forest Art League, Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors, and the Chicago Gallery Association. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Oak Park Art League, and the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art. His work is in the collections of the Chicago Athletic Club, University of Nebraska, Illinois State Museum (Springfield), [...] Click here to continue reading. Raphael Soyer (1899-1987) Born in Borisoglebsk, Russia in 1899, Raphael Soyer is identified as a Social Realist painter because of his interest in the common man, although he avoided subjects that were particularly critical of society. Soyer moved with his family to the Lower East Side of New York City in 1913, after they were deported from Russia by the Tsarist regime. His father, a Hebrew teacher and writer, encouraged artistic and intellectual [...] Click here to continue reading. George William Sotter (1879 to 1953) As a young man, George William Sotter focused on painting the landscape surrounding the Pittsburgh countryside where he was born. Early in his career he and Horace Rudy were partners in a stained glass studio, producing masterful works for cathedrals, monasteries and churches. In 1902 he began his formal art training under Edward W. Redfield at the New Hope School in Bucks County. His studies continued under the [...] Click here to continue reading. William Louis Sonntag (American, 1822 to 1900) William Louis Sonntag Sr. was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was known for his landscape paintings. He first gained his reputation in Cincinnati, where he was active from 1841-53 before departing for Europe along with African American painter Robert Scott Duncanson. While in the Queen City, many of his sketching trips took him to the rural areas of Kentucky and western Virginia, and the resulting canvases were [...] Click here to continue reading. William McKendree Snyder (1848-1930) William McKendree Snyder was born in Liberty, Indiana, served as a drummer boy in the Civil War, and allegedly survived the Andersonville prison camp. He studied under J. Insco Williams in Cincinnati, and then under Albert Bierstadt and George Innes when he moved east and studied in New York and Philadelphia. He spent most of his career in Madison, Indiana, which is in the extreme southern portion of the state, [...] Click here to continue reading. Mary Russell Smith (1842 to 1878) Born at Rockhill, Pennsylvania, on September 25, 1842, Mary Russell Smith, a member of the famous Smith family of painters, was destined to be an artist from an early age. Indeed she completed her first oil painting when only aged 14 and was encouraged by her parents, Russell Smith and Mary Priscilla Wilson Smith, to become a professional artist. Mary’s other childhood passion was raising poultry and this [...] Click here to continue reading. Joseph B. Smith (1798-1876) & William S. Smith (1821- ?) A master of nautical ship portraits, Joseph B. Smith was born in New York City in 1798, and trained for the printing trade. His son and partner in many paintings, William S., was born in 1821. Joseph’s earliest known work was a lithograph of his printing depicting the clipper ship Mechanic’s Own. His earliest known painting was the 1849 portrait of the Steamer Hartford [...] Click here to continue reading. Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935) Jessie Smith was among the most gifted of the students of Howard Pyle, and she took to heart his precept of (loosely put) studying a particular subject thoroughly, and conversely, painting what one knows best in order to bring the subject alive. Quite early, she settled on exploring the universe of the child, and did so with great sensitivity and tenderness over the first 30 years of this century. Her [...] Click here to continue reading. Henry Pember Smith (1854-1907) Henry Pember Smith was likely a self-taught artist who was born in Waterford, Connecticut and had set up a studio in New York by 1877. He exhibited regularly at the NAD. Just after the turn of the 20th century, he moved to Asbury Park, where he died in 1907. |
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