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The Artists Union or Artists' Union was a short-lived union of artists in New York in the years of the Great Depression. It was influential in the establishment of both the Public Works of Art Project in December 1933 and the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration in August 1935. It functioned as the principal meeting-place ...
Barrow joined the American Art-Union in 1850, and exhibited his first painting at the National Academy of Design in 1852. Barrow opened his New York City studio in 1856, at the age of 32, in Greenwich Village, near that of Charles Loring Elliott [2] and other Hudson Valley School landscape painters. [4]
The Ten, also known as The Ten Whitney Dissenters, were a group of New York–based artists active from 1935 to 1940. [1] [a] Expressionist in tendency, the group was founded to gain exposure for its members during the economic difficulty of the Great Depression, and also in response to the popularity of Regionalism which dominated the gallery space its members sought.
Painters from New York City (1 C, 663 P) Pages in category "Painters from New York (state)" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 225 total.
Tobey died on January 4, 2005, at a nursing home in Mamaroneck, New York. [2] The New York Times obituary described Tobey as "a muralist, portraitist and illustrator whose renderings of famous events and faces hang in museums, libraries, public buildings, corporate offices and private collections". [2] Tobey is ranked by the Artists Trade Union ...
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 .
In 1937, he painted murals in the New York Public Library, including his most famous work, The Story of the Recorded Word. [1] In 1980, Laning came to Ogden, Utah, to personally oversee the installation of his two 50-foot by 12-foot murals in the Grand Lobby of the historic Ogden Railway Station. The northern side depicts the Union Pacific ...
He married Martha Norman in Hudson, New York in 1831, [1] and had at least one daughter, Nora H. Edmonds. [2] After about 1854, he devoted much of the remainder of his life to developing a bank-note engraving company, improving his country estate in Bronxville, New York, and raising his large family; he had remarried after returning from Europe ...