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Robert Henri
USA
Born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio, Robert Henri became one of the leading personalities in American art, known for his teaching skills, ethnic portraits, especially spirited children, and insistence that artists should adhere to social realism and give rein to their own artistic instincts. During his growing up years,... -
William Gropper
New York, NY
William Gropper was born in New York City's Lower East Side in 1897. He was the first of six children to parents who earned small wages working in sweatshops. At the age of fourteen, Gropper left school to help support his family. While carrying bolts of cloth for his deliveries,... -
Orville Bulman
Florida, Michigan, New York
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George Biddle
George Biddle was born in 1885 to a prominent Philadelphia family. After receiving a law degree from Harvard University and being admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1911, Biddle pursued a career in art instead. In 1911 Biddle went to Paris to study at the Académie Julian, returning to Philadelphia... -
William Chadwick
William Chadwick was born in England to Mary Alice Earnshaw and Day Chadwick. Having established a successful manufacturing business of woolen fabrics in England, Day Chadwick relocated his factory to Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1882, to take advantage of the growing American market and to circumvent high import tariffs. William Chadwick... -
Ben Austrian
Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Ben Austrian attended school in his hometown until he started working as a traveling representative for his father's business, a job that allowed him to visit museums in New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and St. Louis. When his father died in 1897, he took over the... -
Nicolai Ivanovich Fechin
Born in Russia in Kazan on the banks of the Volga River, Nicolai Fechin became one of America's foremost ethnic portrait painters during the early 20th century. He spent his childhood in the Volga Forest and learned wood carving from his father who worked with metals and wood as a... -
William Merritt Chase
New York, NY
A native Midwesterner, William Merritt Chase became one of the more revered figures in American art because of his painting abilities and skills at conveying them to other artists. Described as the "single most important teacher of his generation, perhaps in all of American art education" (Gerdts 135), he was... -
Martha Walter
Martha Walter was a well-known Philadelphia-born Impressionist who specialized in light hearted, colorful beach scenes especially of Gloucester, Coney Island, Atlantic City and the French Coast. She went to Girls High School, and from 1895 to 1898, studied at the Pennsylvania Museum & School of Industrial Art, now The University... -
Hildegarde Hume Hamilton
Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
American, 20th Century. Born 11 September 1896, in Syracuse (New York); died 22 January 1970, in Fort Lauderdale (Florida). Painter, watercolourist. Landscapes, seascapes. Hildegarde Hamilton began her training in Plainfield, New Jersey, and made her first study trip abroad in 1909, before continuing her studies, notably at the Art Students'... -
Carl W. Brandien
New York, USA
Born of Danish Parents July 24, 1886 in New York City. Father died when he was only a child and he was placed in an institution. Served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in WWI. Honorably Discharged June 4, 1919. Died January 1, 1965 Ft Lauderdale, FL location not...
