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Paul Ackerman (French, 1908 to 1981) Paul Ackerman was an active and prolific Romanian-born artist who forged a successful career as a French modernist during the mid-20th century. He was born in Jassy, Romania, to a well-to-do Jewish family who sought refuge in France four years later. The Ackermans settled in Paris, where young Paul was initially encouraged by his businessman father in his love of art. From a young age he drew and [...] Click here to continue reading. John Ottis Adams (Indiana, 1851-1927) John Adams was a landscape, genre, and portrait painter who was a member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana painters. Adams was, along with William Forsyth and Theodore Steele, committed to depicting his own native region. These artists were for many years the premier impressionist painters of the Midwest. Much of their subject matter was along the Muscatatuck and Whitewater Rivers and around the Indiana communities of Brookville and [...] Click here to continue reading. Susan Crowder (American, 20th/21st Century) Crowder is a Charlottesville, Virginia based artist. She is one of the founders of the Science & Art Project at the University of Virginia, which facilitates collaboration between artists and scientists. Her art education included study at the Ecole du Louvre and the Art Students League. Her work is in the collections of public institutions including the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of [...] Click here to continue reading. Fitz Hugh (Henry) Lane (1804 to 1865) Fitz Henry Lane was one of the foremost American marine painters of the nineteenth century. He was born in 1804 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and spent much of his youth sketching the Cape Ann shore. He apprenticed with William S. Pendleton, the Boston lithography firm, in the early 1830′s, specializing in topographic views. In the 1840′s Lane probably saw the works of Robert Salmon and Washington Allston in [...] Click here to continue reading. Hallie Pace Prow (1868-1945) Hallie Pace Prow was raised in Salem, Indiana, and moved to Bloomington in 1898 upon marriage to Dr. Fred Prow of Bloomington. She began painting as a professional in her mid-fifties after raising her children. She painted landscapes and floral scenes in oil. She exhibited at the Hoosier Salon in 1926-28, 1930, 1932, 1937, 1942-43. Source: “Skirting The Issue” by Judith Vale Newton and Carol Ann Weiss Information courtesy of [...] Click here to continue reading. William Meade Prince (1893-1951) William Meade Prince studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. He lived and worked in Connecticut in the 1920s then he moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he remained. When the Dodge Motor Company asked him to create illustrations for their advertisements, he gave them an outrageous price for lack of a desire to work for them. Surprisingly, they accepted and Prince achieved financial success. [...] Click here to continue reading. Johann Wilhelm Preyer (1803-1889) Johann Wilhelm Preyer was a noted German painter of still lifes, usually with fruit. He ranks among the most prominent representatives of the Duesseldorf painter school. He studied starting in 1822 at the Duesseoldorfer Academy of Arts first with Peter von Cornelius and continued his training there until 1831. Preyer is considered to be the most important fruit and still life painter of Germany in the 19th century. Information courtesy [...] Click here to continue reading. Gregorio Prestopino (1907 to 1984) Prestopino, born in New York’s Little Italy and educated at the National Academy of Design, was influenced by the Ashcan painters and their depiction of urban life. In 1934 he summered at the prestigious MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., where he would later serve as director (in 1954). Throughout his career he taught painting, including at the Brooklyn Museum School (1946 to 1951) and he was artist-in-residence at Michigan [...] Click here to continue reading. Levi Wells Prentice Self-taught artist Levi Wells Prentice is best known for his realistic still life compositions of fruit arranged within a landscape, or abundantly spilling from bushel baskets. Early in his career, he painted portraits and landscapes of the Adirondack Mountain region of Lewis County, New York, where Prentice was born in 1851. Prentice later turned to painting still life subjects when he moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1883. He was a [...] Click here to continue reading. Asahel Lynde Powers (1813 to 1843) Asahel Powers was born on February 28, 1813, in Springfield, Vermont, and began his career as a portrait artist by the time he turned 18. From 1839 to 1841 he worked in Clinton and Franklin counties in upstate New York. His early works were done on wood panels and later changed to canvas as he traveled further west. His early works showed heavy gray shadowing, strong outlines, boldly [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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