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THE LIVINGSTONS OF THE LIVINGSTON MANOR
The Livingston dynasty is among the most important in American history. Members of the family settled in colonial New York in the seventeenth century and soon ranked among the patricians (their coat of arms is one of several represented in the capitol at Albany). Branches of the Livingston family were involved in major events throughout the past 300 years: members of the Continental Congress; signers of the Declaration [...] Click here to continue reading.
Thomas Corwin Lindsay (American, 1839 to 1907)
Thomas Lindsay, renowned Cincinnati landscape, portrait, and animal painter, active from 1858 to circa 1905. He displayed an unusual talent at a very young age. He made several ventures east, sketching along the way. Just after the Civil War, he left for Europe, studying in Dusseldorf and Paris. Upon his return, he embarked on a prolific career, executing hundreds of paintings. One reviewer noted in 1877 that: [...] Click here to continue reading.
Mattie Lietz (1893-1956)
Born in Peoria, Illinois, Mattie Lietz was a painter and teacher who spent most of her career in that state. She studied at Butler College in Irvington, Indiana, and at the Art Institute of Chicago with Frederick Grant, George Elmer Browne, and John Thomas Nolf. She was a member of the Chicago Galleries Association and exhibited in New York at the National Academy of Design. She also exhibited at the Art [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jonas Lie (1880-1940)
The son of an American mother and a Norwegian father, Jonas Lie was born in Moss, Norway and first studied art in Paris, at age twelve, under the patronage of his namesake and uncle, the writer Jonas Lie, as well as among the inspired company of such other Norwegian luminaries as Edvard Grieg and Henrik Ibsen. The death of Lie’s father, however, interrupted these halcyon days, and the younger Jonas moved [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roy Lichtenstein (1923 – 1997)
Born in New York City in 1923, Roy Lichtenstein grew up in a city that epitomized the ideals and machinations of modernism. He therefore gained a unique understanding of the affects of modern life on the solitary soul, the group, and the society at large. Growing up during the depression years and coming of age at the start of World War II, he was greatly influenced by the jazz [...] Click here to continue reading.
Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874 to 1951)
Leyendecker was born in Montabaur, Germany, and came to America at the age of eight. Showing an early interest in painting, he got his first job at 16 in a Chicago engraving house on the strength of some large pictures he had painted on kitchen oilcloth. In the evenings after work he studied under Vanderpoel at the Chicago Art Institute, and saved for five years to be able [...] Click here to continue reading.
Samella Lewis (born 1924)
Samella Sanders Lewis was born February 27, 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana. According to the Duke University Art Library, Lewis earned her doctorate in 1951 from Ohio University, and became the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in art history and fine art.
As a practicing artist, she cultivated close relationships with several other African-American artists, including Elizabeth Catlett (born 1919), her undergraduate mentor, and Romare Bearden (1914-1988) [...] Click here to continue reading.
Kathryn Yager Lewis
p4A has received the following feedback about this artist:
I thought I might comment on artist Kathryn Yager Lewis. She was my Grandmother and my family does have at least 30 works of hers across 3 homes.
She lived primarily in Oak Park, Illinois and during WWII she was a cartographer for Gousha Maps in Chicago drawing maps from aerial photographs that were used by the war department to chart their [...] Click here to continue reading.
Richard Hayley Lever (1876-1958)
Richard Hayley Lever best known as a Post-Impressionist of marine scenes, he was born in Australia, and moved to London in 1893. He settled at St. Ives in Cornwall in 1900, where he painted marine scenes. For the next ten years, the modified impressionist style he developed brought him much recognition in Europe. In 1911, New England painter Ernest Lawson persuaded him to emigrate to the United States and Lever [...] Click here to continue reading.
Emile Aubert Lessore (French, 1805 1876)
Born in Paris, France, the son of a notary and with no family history of painters or decorators, Emile Aubert Lessore studied art under Louis Hesent, a not notable painter, until he joined the Atelier of Jean August Dominique Ingres, where he painted in both watercolor and oils.
Lessore’s work was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1831. In 1835, a collection of 50 or so plates painted [...] Click here to continue reading.
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