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James Lord Pierpont (April 25, 1822 – August 5, 1893) [1] was an American composer, songwriter, arranger, organist, and Confederate States soldier. Pierpont wrote and composed "Jingle Bells" in 1857, originally titled "The One Horse Open Sleigh".
Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), impressionist portrait artist, first woman to teach art at PAFA, from 1895 to 1915 [8] Hugh Henry Breckenridge (1870–1937; attended in the 1890s), painter, taught from 1894 to 1934 [20] [21] William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), painter, taught from 1896 to 1909 [98]
Maud Kathleen Lewis (née Dowley; March 7, 1903 – July 30, 1970) was a Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia. [2] She lived most of her life in poverty in a small house in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia.
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Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday at his home ...
Kligman was born to a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, [1] with ancestors who had come from eastern Europe. Her father was Morris Kligman. Deciding at a young age that she wanted to be an artist, Kligman studied at the Art Students League after moving into New York, as well as the New School for Social Research and New York University.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
William Thomas Kinkade III (January 19, 1958 – April 6, 2012) [2] [3] was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. [3] He is notable for achieving success during his lifetime with the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products by means of the Thomas Kinkade Company.