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Frank Vining Smith (1879 to 1967) Frank Smith’s marine paintings are both emotive and precisely accurate; the expressive images reflect the artist’s lifelong love of sailing and the sea as well as a vast array of knowledge and desire to portray the actual vessels in the highest detail. A New England native, Smith attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston before ultimately setting up a studio in Hingham, Massachusetts. [...] Click here to continue reading. Alice Ravenel Huger Smith Alice Ravenel Huger Smith was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1876. She had the schooling of a gentlewoman of that day, which included classes in drawing and painting at the Carolina Art Association. However, she did not visit great galleries nor attend a university; essentially she was self-taught as an artist. At first, her artistic talent was directed at designing dance programs, tally and place cards, fans and glove [...] Click here to continue reading. James David Smillie (1833-1909) The oldest son of American engraver James Smillie (1807 to 1885), James David Smillie was the brother to noted painter George Henry Smillie (1840 to 1921), and was known in his own right for his landscapes such as Lake Placid and the Adirondack Mountains from Whiteface. The two brothers worked and traveled extensively together in their painting endeavors in the Catskills, Adirondacks and Hudson River regions and traveled out West [...] Click here to continue reading. Eric Sloane (American, 1905 to 1985) Born in New York City as Everard Jean Hinrichs, Sloane ran away from home at the age of fourteen and worked his way across the country by painting signs. Along the way he became avidly interested in the American farmer and architectural icons of the American Colonial era such as covered bridges, barns and homes. He settled in Taos, New Mexico in 1926 and worked in an artist [...] Click here to continue reading. Edward R. Sitzman (1874-1949) Edward Sitzman was active particularly in Indiana, as a landscape and still life painter, as well as a graphics artist. He studied with Duveneck and H. Farney and at the Cincinnati Art Academy, in London and in Munich. He was a member of Indiana A.C., the Indianapolis A.A. and the Chicago Gallery Association. His work can be seen today at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and in many Indiana public libraries [...] Click here to continue reading. Edward Emerson Simmons (1852-1931) N.B. Edward Simmons was born in 1852 in Concord, Massachusetts. The nephew of renowned author Ralph Waldo Emerson, Simmons became fond of art, literature, and music at an early age. After graduating from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1874, Emerson secured a job for Simmons at the San Francisco Chronicle as a drama critic. Although he stayed on the West Coast only briefly, he did meet and [...] Click here to continue reading. Francis Augustus Silva (1835 to 1886) Silva began painting when he was apprenticed to a sign painter in his native New York. Despite receiving no formal art education, he launched his fine art career in 1865 and by 1868 was included in the National Academy of Design’s annual exhibition. Although Fitz Hugh Lane and Martin Johnson Heade are often heralded as the leaders of the Luminist movement, Silva has come to be recognized as [...] Click here to continue reading. Ada Walter Shulz (American 1870-1928) According Shari Finnell’s Indianapolis Woman Magazine article, Skirting the Issue, “Shulz’s interest in the arts started early. As a young girl, she put off her chores as long as possible so that she could paint. Her widowed mother was a major influence, moving the family to Indianapolis so that her daughter could better develop her talents at Shortridge High School. Later, her mother moved to Chicago so that Shulz [...] Click here to continue reading. Louis Bassi Siegriest (1899-1989) Louis Seigrist was born in Oakland, California in 1899. He studied at the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco where in the 1920′s he was associated with a California Bay Area group called the Society of Six. The group, based in Oakland, focused on California scene subject matter, aggressive use of color, and a freedom of style rooted in Impressionism. Siegrist also did commercial art assignments in Seattle, [...] Click here to continue reading. Everett Shinn (1876-1953) Everett Shinn played a many sided role in American art. As a member of the “Ashcan School,” his pastels of New York street scenes ranged from park avenue to the Bowery. His early experience as a newspaper artist-reporter gave him great technical facility which he later exercised as an illustrator for many national magazines such as McClure’s, Hearsts International, Everybody’s and The Century. Shinn’s career as an illustrator, however, was only [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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