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Jacob Greenleaf (1887-1968) Jacob Greenleaf was born in Estonia in 1887 and studied at the Vilno, Russia Art School and in Paris for two years. He became an active painter in the Rockport/ Somerville area of Massachusetts. He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, The North Shore Art Association, the Rockport Art Association and the Copley Society. His work was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1948, [...] Click here to continue reading. Abbott Fuller Graves (1859-1936) Abbott Graves was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He developed an early interest in flowers after working in a greenhouse. He studied at MIT, and by 1884, he was studying floral painting in Paris, often working with his good friend Edmund Tarbell. He returned to Boston in 1885 and taught at the Cowles Art School in Boston where fellow faculty member Childe Hassam, became an influence on his work. In [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876-1936) As a child, Robert Grafton was adopted by his mother’s second husband and took his last name. When Grafton was eighteen years old and pursuing a career as an artist, he returned to his place of birth in England, and for a short time assumed his birth father’s name of McCune. Shortly upon returning to America, he gave up the name Robert McCune and used his adopted name of Robert [...] Click here to continue reading. Carl Christopher Graf (American, 1892-1947) Carl Graf studied at the Herron Art Institute with Forsyth, and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Art Students League. He was the first president of the Brown County Art Gallery Association, formed in 1926. He painted landscapes and still lifes, and exhibited at the Hoosier Salon. Aaron Henry Gorson A Lithuanian immigrant who lived in Pittsburgh, Harry Gorson (1872 to 1933) attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Julian Academy in Paris. Rather than painting the countryside, as many of his contemporaries did, Gorson was fascinated by Pittsburgh’s riverside industrial landscape. Steel mills, bridges and light juxtaposed on waterways were his focus. In 1921 Gorson moved to New York City, but western Pennsylvania’s mill scenes continued to recur [...] Click here to continue reading. Rudolf Carl Gorman (1932-2005) Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest’s best-known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man’s world with some calling him the “Picasso of Indian artists.” Of this kind of [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert P. Gordy (1933 to 1986) By the mid-1960s, Robert Gordy had developed his individual style of painting, which combines repetitive images and patterns with flat colors. These engaging and often amusing and erotic paintings earned the New Orleans artist national attention and acclaim. In 1967, Gordy was awarded an Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and exhibited in Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Museum of [...] Click here to continue reading. Richard LaBarre Goodwin (1840-1910) Richard LaBarre Goodwin was born in 1840 in Albany, New York and studied with his father, Edwin Weyburn Goodwin and in New York City. He began his life as an artist as a intinerant portrait painter in New York City and Syracuse, New York. He soon turned to still lifes, probably influenced by the highly realistic style of William Harnett. His work is distinctive for his many subjects that are [...] Click here to continue reading. Arthur Clifton Goodwin (American, 1864 to 1929) Arthur C. Goodwin, whose personality alternated between that of a dandy and a destitute alcoholic, was once known as the “Beau Brummel of Chelsea”. In 1900, while watching his artist friend Louis Kronberg at work on a pastel, Goodwin discovered a passion for painting, and at age 30 began the life of an artist. While seeking in his art a refuge from the cruelty of an impoverished [...] Click here to continue reading. Elling William Gollings (1878-1932) The cowboy-painter and etcher Elling William (Bill) Gollings was born in 1878 in Pierce City, Idaho, raised on farms in Michigan and New York and died in 1932 in Sheridan, Wyoming. He worked on ranches throughout Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming. After 1909 he lived and worked in a shack-studio producing his Western art. |
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