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During the 1840s, he worked in New York City as a professional portrait artist. [5] Cogswell travelled to California in 1849, during the California Gold Rush in order to create sketches. [ 3 ] Upon his return to New York City in November 1850 (via the Panama Isthmus ), he turned his sketches of San Francisco into large scale panorama painting ...
Neiman married Janet Byrne in 1957. They lived in New York City, their home base for over five decades, until Neiman's death. Their residence, inside a New York City landmark, the Hotel des Artistes over the Café des Artistes on West 67th Street, originally intended for painters, is made up of double-height rooms that overlook Central Park. [6]
Stephen Holland (born 1941) is an American artist, known for his portraits of athletes and celebrities such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Namath, Joe DiMaggio, Tiger Woods and David Beckham. [1] His work is held in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery , [ 2 ] the American Sports Art Museum and Archives [ 3 ] and the Staples Center ...
Elliott returned to central New York, where he worked intensively at portrait painting for 10 years. Among his works were portraits of many faculty at Hamilton College . After 10 years' practice, his portraits "were never stiff, or clumsy, or cold; but gradually grace, and ease, and warmth, and high feeling, stole into the forms on his canvas…"
Emma Homan, a portrait of a young child painted ca. 1844, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [7] Bradley is often grouped with naïve, itinerant, or folk artists. His work was carefully composed and richly detailed, and directory listings for New York City indicate he made his living as a professional artist.
Portraits, Inc., was founded in New York City in 1942 by Lois Shaw, an art and antiques dealer and socialite. The idea began as a partnership between Mrs. Shaw and the USO in the early 1940s. At this time Mrs. Shaw hosted weekly studio parties in her Park Avenue gallery in which she asked guest portrait artist to create drawings from life of ...
John F. Francis (1808–1886), American still life painter; Sam Francis (1923–1994), American painter and printmaker; Hannah Frank (1908–2008), Scottish artist and sculptor; Jane Frank (1918–1986), American painter, sculptor and mixed-media artist; Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), American abstract expressionist painter
Terry Winters, New York City, September 2001 Terry Winters, Dumb Compass, 1985, oil on linen, 94 × 132 inches. Terry Winters (born 1949, Brooklyn, NY) is an American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker whose nuanced approach to the process of painting has addressed evolving concepts of spatiality and expanded the concerns of abstract art.