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Brandywine School
The Brandywine School was a style of illustration—as well as an artists colony in Wilmington, Delaware and in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, near the Brandywine River—both founded by artist Howard Pyle (1853–1911) at the end of the 19th century. The works produced there were widely published in adventure novels, magazines, and romances in the early 20th century. Pyle’s teachings would influence such notable illustrators as N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, and Norman Rockwell. Pyle himself would come to be known as the "Father of American Illustration." Many works related to the Brandywine School may be seen at the Brandywine River Museum of Art, in Chadds Ford. History Pyle, one of the foremost illustrators in the United States at the time, began teaching art classes at Drexel University in 1895. However, he was dissatisfied with the confines of formal art education, and beginning in 1898, he began teaching students during the summers at the Turner Mill in Chadds Ford. The mill, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Frontispiece may refer to: * Book frontispiece, a decorative illustration facing a book's title page * Frontispiece (architecture) In architecture, the term frontispiece is used to describe the principal face of the building, usually referring to a combination of elements that frame and decorate the main or front entrance of a building. The earliest and most notable variatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Schoonover
Frank Earle Schoonover (August 19, 1877 – September 1, 1972) was an American illustrator who worked in Wilmington, Delaware. A member of the Brandywine School, he was a contributing illustrator to magazines and did more than 5,000 paintings. Early life Schoonover was born on August 19, 1877 in Oxford, New Jersey. He studied under Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. Career Schoonover became part of what would be known as the Brandywine School. A prolific contributor to books and magazines during the early twentieth century, the so-called "Golden Age of Illustration", he illustrated stories as diverse as Clarence Mulford's '' Hopalong Cassidy'' stories and Edgar Rice Burroughs's '' A Princess of Mars''. In 1918 and 1919, he produced a series of paintings along with Gayle Porter Hoskins illustrating the American forces in the First World War for a series of souvenir prints published in the ''Ladies Home Journal''. Over the course of his career, he did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Tupper True
Allen Tupper True (May 30, 1881 – November 1, 1955) was an American illustrator, easel painter and muralist who specialized in depicting the American West. Biography Allen Tupper True was born May 30, 1881, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the son of Margaret Allen Tupper and Henry Alfonso True, both of New England parentage. His maternal grandmother was beekeeper Ellen Smith Tupper; his aunts included two Unitarian ministers, Eliza Tupper Wilkes and Mila Tupper Maynard, and an educator, Kate Tupper Galpin. His father, Henry True, was a pioneer who had fought against the secession of Texas with Sam Houston, driven cattle on the trail from Abilene to Montana, and had established a mercantile and freight business in Colorado Springs catering to the headlong mining rush pushing west into the mountains. His mother, Margaret True, was to become a noted educator, serving first as a teacher in Colorado Springs and later as President of the Denver School Board and head of the truan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip R
Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularized the name include kings of Macedonia and one of the apostles of early Christianity. ''Philip'' has many alternative spellings. One derivation often used as a surname is Phillips. It was also found during ancient Greek times with two Ps as Philippides and Philippos. It has many diminutive (or even hypocoristic) forms including Phil, Philly, Lip, Pip, Pep or Peps. There are also feminine forms such as Philippine and Philippa. Antiquity Kings of Macedon * Philip I of Macedon * Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great * Philip III of Macedon, half-brother of Alexander the Great * Philip IV of Macedon * Philip V of Macedon New Testament * Philip the Apostle * Philip the Evangelist Others * Philippus of Croton (c. 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche Grant
Blanche Chloe Grant (1874–1948) was an American artist, magazine illustrator and author. She is remembered as a muralist as well as a painter of American Indians. Born in Leavenworth, Kansas, she studied at Vassar College, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Art Student's League. She studied with Howard Pyle and in 1911, along with Ethel Leach and Olive Rush, she was living in Pyle's studio, when he died on a trip to Italy. By 1914 she was established as a magazine illustrator and landscape painter. Grant became an associate professor in the School of Fine Arts at University of Nebraska in 1916. Grant came to Taos, NM in 1920 on vacation and decided to settle there permanently. She wrote several books related to the area and edited the ''Taos Valley News''. Her paintings can be found in the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos and New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. Murals Grant produced murals for the New Mexico Tech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olive Rush
Olive Rush (June 10, 1873 near Fairmount, Indiana – August 20, 1966 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was a painter, illustrator, muralist, and an important pioneer in Native American art education. Her paintings are held in a number of private collections and museums, including: the Brooklyn Museum of New York City, the Haan Mansion Museum of Indiana Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Early life Rush kept diaries at the age of 13 in 1886, writing about her life, school lessons, and going sledding in Indiana winters. Part of the entries include working on a dialogue for class, going to lectures ("although it took some crying on my part"), and chores such as washing. Education Raised as a Quaker, Olive Rush studied at Earlham College, the art school associated with the Corcoran Gallery of Art and at the Art Students League before becoming an illustrator in New York. She was well known for her portraits and paintings of children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Willcox Smith
Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Smith illustrated stories and articles for clients such as ''Century'', ''Collier's'', '' Leslie's Weekly'', '' Harper's'', ''McClure's'', '' Scribners'', and the ''Ladies' Home Journal''. She had an ongoing relationship with ''Good Housekeeping'', which included a long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and also the creation of all of the ''Good Housekeeping'' covers from December 1917 to 1933. Among the more than 60 books that Smith illustrated were Louisa May Alcott's '' Little Women'' and '' An Old-Fashioned Girl'', Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's ''Evangeline'', and Robert Louis Stevenson's '' A Child's Garden of Verses''. Early life Jessie Willcox Smith was born on September 6, 1863, in the Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle
Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle (November 11, 1876 – August 1, 1936) was an American illustrator best known for the 40 covers she created for ''The Saturday Evening Post'' in the 1920s and 1930s under the guidance of ''Post'' editor-in-chief, George Horace Lorimer. She studied with Howard Pyle and later married Pyle's brother Walter. Life Born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia on November 11, 1876, to Newcomb Butler and Kate Ashton Thompson, Ellen began her artistic studies at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry in 1895. In 1897, she began to study under the famous illustrator Howard Pyle, and in 1898 and 1899, she was one of his top students. She was given commissions for illustrations for periodicals and books, and she was invited to attend Howard Pyle's Brandywine School in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania both years. Around this time, she met Howard's youngest brother, Walter. In 1900 or 1901, Ellen's study with Howard Pyle ended, but she continued to work from her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Franklin Betts
Ethel Franklin Betts Bains (September 6, 1877 – October 9, 1959) was an American illustrator primarily of children's books during the golden age of American illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Early life and education Betts was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 6, 1877, the daughter of the physician Thomas Betts and Alice Whelan. She was the younger sister of the illustrator Anna Whelan Betts. Betts studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, with the noted illustrator Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute, now Drexel University, and then at the Howard Pyle School in nearby Wilmington, Delaware. Career Betts first gained work illustrating magazines including '' St. Nicholas Magazine'', ''McClure's'', and '' Collier's''. Beginning in 1904, she was commissioned to illustrate several books including James Whitcomb Riley's '' The Raggedy Man'', ''While the Heart Beats Young'', and Frances Hodgson Burnett's ''A Little Prince ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Whelan Betts
Anna Whelan Betts (May 15, 1873 – February 6, 1959) was an American illustrator and art teacher who was noted for her paintings of Victorian women in romantic settings. Betts is considered one of the primary artists of the golden age of American illustration during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Art historian Walt Reed described Betts' work as "characterized by its great beauty and sensitivity." Early life and education Betts was born on May 15, 1873 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the oldest of three children of the physician Thomas Betts and Alice Whelan. Her sister, Ethel Franklin Betts, would also become an artist. Betts studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia with Robert Vonnoh. After graduating, she moved to Paris where she was tutored by the French painter Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois. Career Upon returning to the United States, she studied illustration under Howard Pyle, who was teaching the first classes in illustration art at Drexel I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifford Ashley
Clifford Warren Ashley (December 18, 1881 – September 18, 1947) was an American artist, author, sailor, and knot expert. Life Ashley was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, son of Abiel Davis Ashley and Caroline Morse. He married Sarah Scudder Clark in 1932, with whom he had two daughters, one of whom is practicing painter Jane Ashley. He also adopted his wife's daughter from a previous marriage. He died in Westport Point, Massachusetts. Education and early work Taking an interest in art while still in high school, he went on to attend the Eric Pape Art School in Boston. In the summer of 1901 Ashley, along with friends N.C. Wyeth and Henry J. Peck, studied under George Noyes in Annisquam, Massachusetts. In the fall, he went on to become a student of Howard Pyle's school in Wilmington, Delaware. Pyle helped secure commissions for his students, and Ashley's early work included book frontispieces and illustrations for magazines such as '' The Delineator'', '' Leslies' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Oakley
Violet Oakley (June 10, 1874 – February 25, 1961) was an American artist. She was the first American woman to receive a public mural commission. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, she was renowned as a pathbreaker in mural decoration, a field that had been exclusively practiced by men. Oakley excelled at murals and stained glass designs that addressed themes from history and literature in Renaissance-revival styles. Life Oakley was born in Bergen Heights (a section of Jersey City), New Jersey, into a family of artists. Her parents were Arthur Edmund Oakley and Cornelia Swain. Both of her grandfathers were member of the National Academy of Design. In 1892, she studied at the Art Students League of New York with James Carroll Beckwith and Irving R. Wiles. A year later, she studied in England and France, under Raphaël Collin and others. After her return to the United States in 1896, she studied briefly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before she j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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