Clement Drew (American, 1806 to 1889)
Clement Drew was a noted Massachusetts marine painter, figurehead carver, photographer, and art dealer.
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Orrin Draver (1895-1964) Orrin Draver was born in Nebraska and moved to Richmond, Indiana to tend to the family business. A self-taught artist who painted primarily in the Richmond, Indiana vicinity, Draver frequently painted seasonal landscapes with native Indiana beech trees. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) Arthur Wesley Dow was one of the most influential art teachers of his generation. His teaching and writings profoundly affected American painting, printmaking, ceramics and photography. But all of his instruction would have been less effective were it not for his own example as a painter and printmaker who was an important forerunner of Modernism. Over the course of his career Dow’s own art drew inspiration from, and [...] Click here to continue reading. Henry Dousa (American, 1820 to after 1892) French-born Henry Dousa (born circa 1845) is a somewhat enigmatic folk artist. Early accounts describe him as friendless, a difficult husband, and his works as “amusingly stiff.” He lived most of his life in Lafayette, Indiana, removing temporarily to New Castle, but returning to Lafayette where he later died. He worked in a variety of media, including oil, pastel, and watercolor, and he executed “portraits” of livestock, [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Dougherty (1877-1947) Born in Brooklyn, New York, Paul Dougherty became a famous painter of dramatic marine scenes and desert landscapes although his family hoped he would become a lawyer. Following his father who was an attorney, he graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1896 and New York Law School in 1898. But he changed professions to art and studied with Robert Henri and in Europe for five years from 1900 to 1905. He [...] Click here to continue reading. Gaines Ruger Donoho (1857-1916) The son of a prosperous plantation owner, Gaines Ruger Donoho was born in Church Hill, Mississippi in December, 1857. The onset of the Civil War, coupled with the death of his father in the early 1860′s, severely disrupted Donoho’s childhood. His mother Julia was of Northern descent, and her relatives arranged for their move at the end of the war. Eventually, they settled in Washington, D.C., where Donoho engaged [...] Click here to continue reading. Vic Donahue (b.1913) Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Vic Donahue was raised in Omaha and became a newspaper artist there and in Chicago. He sketched and painted the Marines in the Pacific, becoming one of the first official combat artists. Following the war, he joined the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate in Cleveland, Ohio as a feature artist and was nominated two times for the Pulitzer Prize for Best Newspaper Feature of the Year. He moved to [...] Click here to continue reading. John Henry Dolph (1835 to 1903) Born in Fort Ann, New York, John Henry Dolph began his career as a portrait and landscape painter in Detroit during the 1850′s. But, he is best know for his masterful, and sometimes humorous, paintings of cats and dogs. After five years of study abroad, Dolph’s artistic focus changed from people and landscapes to animals. Celebrated “Animalier” Louis Van Kuyek tutored Dolph for two years in Antwerp, and [...] Click here to continue reading. Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) According to noted authority Donald Hagerty, “By the early 1940s, Maynard Dixon had achieved considerable acclaim as one of the West’s leading artists. His long, productive life was a work of art in its own right. From the beginning Maynard Dixon was different, an authentic, iconoclastic, self-created individual. Born in 1875 in Fresno, California, he had no formal academic art training except for three miserable months at San Francisco’s Mark Hopkins [...] Click here to continue reading. Jim (James) Dine (Born 1935) Jim Dine is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, born 1935. Dine, a prolific artist, came to prominence in New York from 1959-1960 when he staged a series of “Happenings”, creating action painting and assemblages. His works often repeat a visual theme (hearts) or frequently utilize objects (shoes, toothbrushes), throughout different mediums. Although he used objects from everyday life, he was not a Pop Artist, though he was not [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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