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Winifred Brady Adams (American, Indiana, 1871 to 1955) Winifred Adams entered Muncie Art School in 1889. When the Muncie Art School was closed in 1891, Winifred attended the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry in Philadelphia before enrolling at the Art Students League of New York in 1895. She studied with William Merritt Chase who was most influential on her art, as well as other noted artists such as Douglas Volk, H. Siddons [...] Click here to continue reading. Andrew Thomas Schwartz (1867 – 1942) Andrew T. Schwartz was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His early education was in the public schools of his hometown, where he showed great promise as an artist. In 1890, he began intense art study with the famed Frank Duveneck at the Cincinnati Art Academy. He later studied with H. Siddons Mowbray at the Art Students League in New York, where he was awarded the Lazarus Scholarship for mural [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Richard Schumann (1876 to 1946) Paul Schumann has been called the interpreter of the true Texas gulf coast. He was well known for impressionistic paintings of boats, recalling the works of Claude Monet. He worked with bright colors and often used a palette knife to add texture and depth to his canvases. Born in Germany, Schumann came to Galveston as a child and, except for a period when he studied painting in New [...] 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. |
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