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William Louis Sonntag (American, 1822 to 1900)
William Louis Sonntag Sr. was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was known for his landscape paintings. He first gained his reputation in Cincinnati, where he was active from 1841-53 before departing for Europe along with African American painter Robert Scott Duncanson. While in the Queen City, many of his sketching trips took him to the rural areas of Kentucky and western Virginia, and the resulting canvases were [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935)
Jessie Smith was among the most gifted of the students of Howard Pyle, and she took to heart his precept of (loosely put) studying a particular subject thoroughly, and conversely, painting what one knows best in order to bring the subject alive. Quite early, she settled on exploring the universe of the child, and did so with great sensitivity and tenderness over the first 30 years of this century.
Her [...] Click here to continue reading.
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1876. She had the schooling of a gentlewoman of that day, which included classes in drawing and painting at the Carolina Art Association. However, she did not visit great galleries nor attend a university; essentially she was self-taught as an artist. At first, her artistic talent was directed at designing dance programs, tally and place cards, fans and glove [...] Click here to continue reading.
James David Smillie (1833-1909)
The oldest son of American engraver James Smillie (1807 to 1885), James David Smillie was the brother to noted painter George Henry Smillie (1840 to 1921), and was known in his own right for his landscapes such as Lake Placid and the Adirondack Mountains from Whiteface. The two brothers worked and traveled extensively together in their painting endeavors in the Catskills, Adirondacks and Hudson River regions and traveled out West [...] Click here to continue reading.
Eric Sloane (American, 1905 to 1985)
Born in New York City as Everard Jean Hinrichs, Sloane ran away from home at the age of fourteen and worked his way across the country by painting signs. Along the way he became avidly interested in the American farmer and architectural icons of the American Colonial era such as covered bridges, barns and homes. He settled in Taos, New Mexico in 1926 and worked in an artist [...] Click here to continue reading.
Francis Augustus Silva (1835 to 1886)
Silva began painting when he was apprenticed to a sign painter in his native New York. Despite receiving no formal art education, he launched his fine art career in 1865 and by 1868 was included in the National Academy of Design’s annual exhibition.
Although Fitz Hugh Lane and Martin Johnson Heade are often heralded as the leaders of the Luminist movement, Silva has come to be recognized as [...] Click here to continue reading.
Ada Walter Shulz (American 1870-1928)
According Shari Finnell’s Indianapolis Woman Magazine article, Skirting the Issue, “Shulz’s interest in the arts started early. As a young girl, she put off her chores as long as possible so that she could paint. Her widowed mother was a major influence, moving the family to Indianapolis so that her daughter could better develop her talents at Shortridge High School. Later, her mother moved to Chicago so that Shulz [...] Click here to continue reading.
Everett Shinn (1876-1953)
Everett Shinn played a many sided role in American art. As a member of the “Ashcan School,” his pastels of New York street scenes ranged from park avenue to the Bowery. His early experience as a newspaper artist-reporter gave him great technical facility which he later exercised as an illustrator for many national magazines such as McClure’s, Hearsts International, Everybody’s and The Century. Shinn’s career as an illustrator, however, was only [...] Click here to continue reading.
Warren W. Sheppard (1858 to 1937)
Warren Sheppard was a designer and navigator of racing yachts and sailed widely along the New England coast. He won the famous New York-to-Bermuda race and published an authoritative book titled “Practical Navigation.” He was also known for his canal scenes of Venice. Sheppard took art lessons from marine painter Maurice De Haas and exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association, the National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania [...] Click here to continue reading.
Millard Owen Sheets (1907 to 1989)
Born in Pomona, California, artist Millard Sheets earned a national reputation for his work in watercolors. In 1930 he gained attention when his work was accepted for the prestigious Carnegie Institute’s International Exhibition of Paintings. During World War II, he served as an artist reporter for Life magazine in Burma and India during 1943 and 1944.
Information courtesy of Neal Auction Co. October 2002
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