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Hugh Breckenridge
Hugh Henry Breckenridge (1870 – 1937), was an American painter and art instructor, who championed the artistic movements from impressionism to modernism. Breckenridge taught for more than forty years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, becoming the school's Dean of Instruction in 1934. He also taught from 1899 to 1918 at the Darby School of Art, which he co-founded with Thomas Anshutz (1851-1912), and from 1920 to 1937 at his own Breckenridge School of Art in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Biography Breckenridge was born on October 6, 1870, in Leesburg, Virginia. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he met first met William Edmondson. In 1892, he traveled to Paris where he studied under Adolphe William Bouguereau. He travelled through Europe with his colleague Walter E. Schofield. In 1894 when he returned to Philadelphia he began his career at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), where he would teach for more than forty years. Brecken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting
Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush. Other implements, such as palette knives, sponges, airbrushes, the artist's fingers, or even a dripping technique that uses gravity may be used. One who produces paintings is called a painter. In art, the term "painting" describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate other materials, in single or multiple form, including sand, clay, paper, cardboard, newspaper, plaster, gold leaf, and even entire objects. Painting is an important form of visual arts, visual art, bringing in elements such as drawing, Composition (visual art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Emerson Baum
Walter Emerson Baum (December 14, 1884 – July 12, 1956) was an American visual artist and educator, active in the Bucks and Lehigh County areas of Pennsylvania. In addition to being a prolific painter, Baum was also responsible for the founding of the Baum School of Art, and the Allentown Art Museum. Early life and education Walter Emerson Baum was born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania and is one of the few Pennsylvania impressionists from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Between 1904 and 1909, Baum studied with William B. T. Trego, taking lessons at Trego's home in North Wales, Pennsylvania, about 15 miles south of his native Sellersville. Baum attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 1905 and 1906, where he studied with Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Hugh H. Breckenridge, William Merritt Chase, and Cecilia Beaux. Faced with the responsibilities of a wife and four children, Marian, Ruth, Robert and Edgar, Baum took odd jobs to support his family. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delle Miller
Adele Helene “Delle” Miller (1875-1932) was an American artist, craftswoman, and teacher. She was trained as a painter in the impressionist style and enjoyed being in nature. Miller was born in Kansas, but spent most of her life in Kansas City, Missouri. Throughout her lifetime, she worked with various media, including metalworking and oil paints. Among her painting instructors were Hugh H. Breckenridge, Arthur Wesley Dow, and Daniel Garber. Early life and education Miller was born in Independence, Kansas. She had at least one sibling, a sister named Mabelle (sometimes Maybelle) M. Miller. Their father was a physician and real-estate businessman, Henry Miller. Both Mabelle and Delle were members of the Phi Mu, Philomathean Alumnae Association. She studied art at the Fine Arts Institute of Kansas City, the Chicago Art Institute, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Miller was a pupil of artists Hugh H. Breckenridge, Arthur Wesley Dow, and Daniel Garber. She studied unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Marin
John Marin (December 23, 1870 – October 2, 1953) was an early American modernist visual artist. He is known for his abstract landscape paintings and watercolors. Early life and education Marin was born on December 23, 1870, in Rutherford, New Jersey. His mother died nine days after his birth, and he was raised by two aunts in Weehawken, New Jersey.. He attended the Stevens Institute of Technology for a year, and tried unsuccessfully to become an architect. From 1899 to 1901, Marin attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In Philadelphia he studied with Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Hugh Henry Breckenridge and William Merritt Chase. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York.. Career In 1905, Marin went to Europe, initially traveling to Paris. He exhibited his work in the Salon, where he also got his first exposure to modern art. He traveled through Europe for six years, and painted in the Netherlands, Belgium, England, and Italy. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Randall Lumis
Harriet Randall Lumis (1870 – April 6, 1953) was a landscape painter based in Springfield, Massachusetts. Early life and education Harriet Randall was born in Salem, Connecticut. She began art studies after she married, in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1893. She first painted landscapes and studied at the New York Summer School in Cos Cob, Connecticut. Beginning in 1920, Lumis studied under Hugh Breckenridge at the Breckenridge School of Art in East Gloucester, Massachusetts. Career Harriet Randall Lumis helped to found the Springfield Art League. In 1921, she was elected as a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. She was one of the founders of the Academic Artists Association, which promoted realistic and traditional art (and opposed modernist art movements). In widowhood she taught art. Personal life, death and legacy Harriet Randall married architectural engineer Fred Williams Lumis in 1892. She was widowed in 1937. Harriet Randall Lumis died i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susette Schultz Keast
Susette Inloes Schultz Keast (August 6, 1892 – September 5, 1932) was an American painter. She was a member of the Philadelphia Ten. Biography Keast was born in 1892 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Philadelphia School of Design, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her instructors included Henry B. Snell, Elliott Daingerfield, Hugh H. Breckenridge, Thomas Pollock Anshutz and William Merritt Chase. In 1911 she received a Cresson European Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts which allowed her summer travel to Europe. Keast married the architect W. R. Morton Keast in 1919. They subsequently travel to China and Japan. In 1922 the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts purchased her painting ''Inner Harbor''. In 1930 Keast replaced Cora S. Brooks as a member of the Philadelphia Ten. Keast was also a member of The Plastic Club The Plastic Club is an arts organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1897 for wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lorraine Hunt
Thomas Lorraine Hunt (11 February 1882 – 17 April 1938) was a Canadian-American landscape painter of the 1920s and 30s, known especially for his dramatic use of color. His paintings are considered a transition from impressionism to modernism. His primary subjects were boats and harbors in which the colors and shapes on the canvas took precedence over the exactness of the objects. Hunt was active among the Southern California group of Impressionist plein air painters and a founding member of the Laguna Art Museum. Early life Thomas Lorraine Hunt was born 11 February 1882 in London, Ontario, Canada, the son of the landscape artist William Powell Hunt. He was mentored in painting technique by his father who encouraged Hunt to pursue a career as an artist. Beginning at age 19, Hunt worked as a traveling salesman, then began taking landscape art seriously in 1908 at the age of 26. After marrying Blanche Levine in 1910, he and his wife immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, USA. In Clevelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Hull
Marie Hull (September 28, 1890 - November 21, 1980) was an American painter from Mississippi. Her work was exhibited in the United States and Europe. In her home state of Mississippi, October 22, 1975, was designated as Marie Hull Day. Some of her paintings are in the permanent collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi. Early life Marie Hull was born on September 28, 1890, in Summit, Mississippi. Her father was Earnest Sidney Atkinson and her mother, Mary Catherine Sample. She had three siblings. Her maternal grandfather, a graduate of the Tulane University School of Medicine, "made drawings of Civil War battles." Hull was educated at McComb High School and the Higbee School in Memphis, Tennessee. She graduated from Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music in 1909. After teaching piano lessons in Jackson, she took painting lessons from Aileen Philips and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer
Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer (January 7, 1873 – June 24, 1943) was an American illustrator, Painting, painter, and printmaker who painted and illustrated Tennessee society and other objects and people, including the state's women and children. As a printmaker, she pioneered the Woodcut#White-line woodcut, white-line woodcut. Early life and education Hergesheimer was born on January 7, 1873, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to parents Charles P. Hergesheimer and Ellamanda Ritter Hergesheimer.Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer. Death June 24, 1943. Tennessee Deaths and Burials, 1874–1955. She was encouraged to create art in her childhood.Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer. Johnson Collection. Retrieved August 20, 2014. Hergesheimer was the great-great granddaughter of Charles Willson Peale, a Philade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Freelon
Allan Randall Freelon Sr. (September 2, 1895 – August 6, 1960), a native of Philadelphia, US, was an African American artist, educator and civil rights activist. He is best known as an African American Impressionist-style painter during the time of the Harlem Renaissance and as the first African American to be appointed art supervisor of the Philadelphia School District. Personal life Born in Philadelphia on September 2, 1895, to Douglas Freelon and Laura E. (Goodwin) Freelon, a "middle-class family of notable academic achievement", Freelon was the oldest of three children. On September 4, 1918, he married Marie J. Cuyjet, and they had one child, Allan Randall Freelon Jr. At some point Freelon and Cuyjet divorced; Freelon was married to Mary Kouzmanoff at the time of his death, August 6, 1960. He died while at his art studio in Telford, Pennsylvania. Architect Philip Freelon is his grandson. Education Freelon attended the South Philadelphia High School for Boys, followed by a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Maybin Ferguson
Nancy Maybin Ferguson (1872–1967), was an American painter whose career spanned decades. She is known for her ''plein-air'' paintings. She was a member of the Philadelphia Ten. Biography Ferguson was born in 1872 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, studying under Elliot Daingerfield. She also attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where her instructors included Charles Hawthorne, William Merritt Chase, Arthur Carles and Hugh H. Breckenridge. Ferguson exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum is based in the Art Institute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Emerson
Edith Emerson (July 27, 1888 – November 21, 1981) was an American painter, muralist, illustrator, writer, and curator. She was the life partner of acclaimed muralist Violet Oakley and served as the vice-president, president, and curator of the Woodmere Art Museum in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1940 to 1978. Early life and education Emerson was born on July 27, 1888, in Oxford, Ohio. into a family of accomplished scholars and artists. Her father, Alfred Emerson, was an archaeologist and professor of classical archaeology, whose career included positions at Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Cornell University. Her mother, Alice Edwards Emerson, was a pianist and music professor who taught at Wellesley College, the Ithaca Conservatory of Music and its successor, Ithaca College, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, and Hobart College. She had three siblings: Gertrude, a writer and editor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
