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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives (Italian: Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older ...
The first edition of the publication was released by the American Federation of Arts in 1940 under the title ' Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists. [4] It contained a Preface, Abbreviations, Biographies, Obituaries, and a Classified Geographical Index.
William Hart (March 31, 1823 – June 17, 1894), was a Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter, and Hudson River School artist. His younger brother, James McDougal Hart, and his younger sister, Julie Hart Beers, were also Hudson River School artists, and his nieces Letitia Bonnet Hart and Mary Theresa Hart became well-known painters as well.
Eliza Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942) was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.Known for her elegant and sensitive portraits of friends, relatives, and Gilded Age patrons, Beaux painted many famous subjects including First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Drawing No. 2 - Special, charcoal on Fabriano laid paper, 60 x 46.3 cm (23 5/8 x 18 1/4 in.), 1915, National Gallery of Art Charcoal drawings by Georgia O'Keeffe from 1915 represents Georgia O'Keeffe's first major exploration of abstract art and attainment of a freedom to explore her artistic talents based upon what she felt and envisioned. [1]
This category is for lists of visual artists (only please) included in biographical compilations, some of them very small and limjited in scope. Some articles cover the life of the biographer, or the biographical work, but all should have lists of the subjects that are complete or nearly so.
William J. Hennessy Jr., a veteran sketch artist who gave Americans striking views from inside courtrooms during some of the nation’s most important legal dramas, died on Monday.
Both in Paris and New York she made a habit of making circus sketches that she later developed into paintings, gouache, and prints to which American Artists Group purchased reproduction rights. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] [ 30 ] A well-known example of this work is a gouache called Pop!