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Martin Johnson Heade (American 1819-1904)
One of the great Luminist landscape painters of the 19th century, Heade was also a naturalist and poet. His work is best known for four basic themes; atmospheric landscapes of marshes and shores; vividly colored paintings of tropical hummingbirds in their natural settings; floral still lifes (orchids, magnolias, Victorian vases with apple blossoms or roses); and, to a lesser extent, portraits.
He was born in Lumberville, Bucks [...] Click here to continue reading.
Cecil F. Head (Born 1906)
Cecil Head studied art at the John Herron Art Institute. He exhibited at the Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, 1941); Worlds Fair New York (1939), Hoosier Salon, and the John Herron Art Institute. His work is in the collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Children’s Museum (Indianapolis), Indiana State Museum, and the Franklin, Indiana Public Library.
Head was part of a group of modern painters who emerged in the [...] Click here to continue reading.
John Hauser (1858 to 1918)
John Hauser was born in Cincinnati to a family of German immigrants. His early interest in drawing propelled him to study first at the Ohio Mechanics Institute. Afterwards he studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy, which was the common destination for young art students in Cincinnati to further their education. Finally, he attended the McMicken Art School under the tutelage of Thomas Noble. As was the case with other [...] Click here to continue reading.
Richard C. Hasenfus (born 1932)
Richard Hasenfus was born in Bath, Maine and studied at the Massachusetts College of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. He has had single-artist exhibitions at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine, the Copley Society in Boston, and others, and has also exhibited at the MFA in Boston, Rockefeller Center in New York, and the Maine Art Gallery. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Lucie Hartrath (1868-1962)
Lucie Hartrath studied with Vanderpoel at the Art Institute of Chicago, and in Paris and Munich. She exhibited as early as 1898, at the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 1901, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. She also exhibited at the Hoosier Salon, Paris Salon, and the Chicago Municipal Art League. Hartrath taught at Rockford College from 1902-04. She visited Brown County, Indiana around 1908-1910, and like many Chicago [...] Click here to continue reading.
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)
As a native of Lewiston Maine, Marsden Hartley loved to paint the mountains and coast. He attended the National Academy of Design in New York where he studied under William Chase. By 1921, his role as a key component in American Modernism became clear and defined. Painting a breadth of subject matters, from abstract portraits to forceful landscapes, he traveled all over Europe and displayed his work in galleries with contemporary [...] Click here to continue reading.
William M. Hart (1823 to 1894)
William Hart was born in Paisley, Scotland on March 31, 1823, brother of two other well-known painters, James McDougal Hart and Julie Hart Beers. The Hart family moved to Albany, New York in 1831 where William became an apprentice to a carriage maker painting panel decorations before becoming a portrait painter at the age of 18. In the late 1830′s he turned to landscape paintings and became known [...] Click here to continue reading.
James McDougal Hart (1828 – 1901)
James McDougal Hart was a leading figure of the second generation Hudson River School painters and was known for idyllic landscapes, especially those of cows. His family emigrated to Albany, New York in 1830 when he was two, and at fifteen, Hart apprenticed to a sign and banner painter in Albany. Later he switched to portrait painting. At twenty-two, he went to Germany and enrolled in the Dusseldorf [...] Click here to continue reading.
Charles Harsanyi (1905-1973)
Charles was born in Tapoka, Hungary, and as a young man studied with A. Bankhard at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. He moved to the United States in 1947 and became a prominent member of the Audubon Artists Association, serving first as a juror and then as director.
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Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison’s journey as an artist seems to have begun when he first climbed onto a sign painter’s scaffold on the side of McCartha’s Hardware in Denmark, South Carolina. The Coca-Cola sign that he began that day with his mentor, J. J. Cornforth, was the first of more than 100 similar signs he painted over the next few years and shaped the future work of this South Carolinian in many ways.
Now [...] Click here to continue reading.
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