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Anne Wilson Goldthwaite (American/Alabama, 1869 to 1944)
Anne Goldthwaite, a native of Alabama who often cited the imagery of the Alabama and Texas landscapes as her earliest memories, would always be grateful for these recollections and her appreciation of the South. After the death of her parents, an uncle, impressed with her talent, offered to pay for her schooling in New York, and Goldthwaite gratefully accepted. She studied at the National Academy of Design [...] Click here to continue reading.
William James Glackens (1870 to 1938)
American Impressionist William Glackens is one of the most influential American painters of the first decades of the 20th century. Circa 1900 he met Robert Henri and they shared a studio for several years. Henri encouraged Glackens to move beyond his initial success as a witty magazine artist-illustrator in Philadelphia and New York to a full-time artist. This led to his participation in the forward thinking group of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Andre Gisson (Anders Gittelson) 1921-2003
Well known for his twentieth century views of Paris and Impressionistic landscapes, still lifes and portraits, Andre Gisson was actually born in Brooklyn, New York, as Anders Gittelson in 1921. In the 1940′s Gittelson joined the Army Corps of Engineers and traveled extensively in Japan, Paris and the French countryside helping to repair the damage of World War II. Returning to New York he obtained a scholarship to the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Frank J. Girardin (1856-1945)
Born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1856, Frank J. Girardin studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy and with Noble, Duveneck, and Chatain. He spent his early career in Richmond, Indiana and lived briefly in New Orleans. He is mostly known for his landscape paintings, winning prizes for his exhibits at the Cincinnati Art Club (1903) and the Richmond Art Association (1912). Girardin died in 1945 in Redondo Beach, California.
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Regis Francois Gignoux (1816-1882)
Regis Francois Gignoux, was born in 1816 in Lyon, France and trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He married Elizabeth A. Christmas (1822 to 1888), an American, and moved to Brooklyn in 1840, where he developed his interests in landscape painting. Within a few years, he opened a studio and took on private students, including George Inness, and enjoyed critical and financial success. In 1858, he joined [...] Click here to continue reading.
Charles Henry Gifford (1839-1904)
The son of a Fairhaven, Massachusetts ship’s carpenter, Gifford worked as a shoemaker until 1862, when he enlisted in the Union Army. After fighting in the Civil War, Gifford returned to Fairhaven in 1865 and decided to take up painting. He established a studio in New Bedford in 1868 and, like his fellow Fairhavener, William Bradford, decided to focus his attention on the sea. Gifford showed considerable talent, not [...] Click here to continue reading.
Scott & Stuart Gentling
Scott and Stuart Gentling could be called the ultimate Texas painters, especially when it comes to painting the land, flora, and fauna of the state. Born in Minnesota, the twins came to Fort Worth as young boys. After separating to attend Tulane and one year of law school at the University of Texas, Stuart joined Scott at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art. After their studies, the Gentlings came home and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Edward B. Gay (1837-1928)
A well known landscape painter, Edward Gay was born in Ireland on April 25th, 1837, and moved to the United States in 1848 to escape the Potato Famine, settling with his family in Albany, New York. He was urged to paint by the Hart brothers and George Boughton, prominent local artists. He traveled to Germany in the early 1860′s to study further. When he returned to the United States in [...] Click here to continue reading.
Leon Ambroise Gauthier (French/Latin America, 1822-1880)
A native Parisian, Gauthier studied at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts through 1841. He exhibited landscapes, portraits and genre paintings at the academic Salons from 1844 to 1879, receiving an honorable mention in 1863. Another Gauthier portrait of a gentleman, dated circa 1853, is part of the corporate collection of the Banco de la Republica of Bogota, Columbia.
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William Gilbert Gaul (1855-1919).
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Gaul first planned a career with the U. S. Navy and briefly attended Claverack Military Academy, but due to ill health was unable to pursue a military career. He decided instead to become an artist, and during the 1870s studied with Lemuel Wilmarth and John George Brown , becoming a member of the National Academy of Design in 1882. In 1876 he made [...] Click here to continue reading.
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