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In 1838 he began to collect and study insects for New York state. In 1854 he became the first professional Entomologist of New York State Agricultural Society, commissioned by the State of New York. Dr. George Franklin Grant, born in Oswego, he was the first African-American professor at Harvard. He was also a Boston dentist, and the inventor ...
Pages in category "Artists from New York (state)" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 428 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Paintings and prints by George Bellows are in the collections of many major and regional American art museums, including the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, Texas, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, and the Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and The ...
The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, and spanning the 1920s. This list includes intellectuals and activists, writers, artists, and performers who were closely associated with the movement.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. American Painters of Yesterday and Today, privately printed in New York, 1919. Chapter: Arthur B. Davies (at archive.org) Wright, Brooks. The Artist and the Unicorn: The Lives of Arthur B. Davies, 1862–1928. New York: Historical Society of Rockland County, 1978.
Ames painted a number of still lifes, landscapes, and history paintings, and was skilled at engraving. The Chautauqan Magazine describes his importance in this way; "(he) was the most noted portraitist in the state, outside New York city. The sure and fluent ease of his brush, his keen characterization, his pure, fresh coloring, are all ...
Nell Choate Jones (1879–1981) – artist who had lived in Brooklyn [10] [11] Jones was awarded an honorary doctorate by the State University of New York in 1972 and received the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1979. She exhibited regularly across North America in the 1940s and 1950s as well as overseas in France ...
This painting disappeared at one point in time and the whereabouts were unknown. [4] According to the catalog entry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a museum benefactor, Jacob S. Rogers purchased it from a house sale in 1952. [5] It is now held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where it has been since 1952. It underwent ...