Archives: Artists

Listed as a folk painter in New York City, and his home town of Jacksonville, Illinois.

An innovative leader in the first wave of modern American art, Robert Henri set upon his artistic path in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art from 1886 until 1900, where he studied and taught while making trips back and forth between Philadelphia and Paris. While in France, he immersed his studies in the palettes and…

A close associate of American icon Jane Peterson, Harriette Bowdoin studied under Frank Brangwyn in London where the two women are believed to have first met. Prior to 1905, Bowdoin was instructed by both Henry Bailey Snell in Pennsylvania and Elliott Dangerfield in New York. In company with Peterson, Bowdoin traveled to Venice in 1908.…

A widely prolific artist of the American East Coast, George H. Gay painted both in watercolor and oils. He enjoyed composing true seascapes, with the froth and churn of the breaking waves in conflict with the shores. He would herald the last light of a day with strong flashes of color in his sunsets, and…

Augustus Koopman is known for painting scenes of France and the American West. As part of a large community of American expatriate artists in turn-of-the century Paris, Koopman spent a great deal of time at the coast in Etaples near Belgium, where the great Eugene Boudin frequented. It is along this coast that Koopman painted…

Defined with his self-bestowed identity as "The Vagabond Artist", Carl William Brandien set out to travel the world on quests to discover and paint beauty from every corner of the world. Joined by his wife Kaye, ironically a survivor of the sinking of the Lusitania whom he met onboard a steamer voyage to California, they…

Born Joseph Dwight Strong, Jr. in Bridgeport, Connecticut to a minister's family, the artist is one of the earliest sources of extremely rare views of Hawaii and Pacific Island paradises encountered as Western Civilization spread its influence over the world. He moved with his family to Honolulu as a child, studied in California for an…

A California-born artist of the 19th Century and beyond, Armin Carl Hansen holds a special place in American Art, bonding the traditional passion of a maritime art specialist to the broad focus of Impressionism, becoming the foremost artist of the waters of the Monterey Peninsula. Inspired by his father, artist Herman Wendleborg Hansen, he went…

Like many artists in history, most of what is known about Isiah Whyte comes from his surviving paintings. Whyte was a maritime painter working out of Boston in the early 19th Century. Nearly all his paintings were ship's portraits of famous American Naval vessels including Revolutionary War Ship BONHOMME RICHARD and the War of 1812's…

Charles Cohill (1812-1860) was a Pennsylvania artist who studied under John Neagle and specialized in oil portraits. Living in Philadelphia, he is known to have exhibited at the Artists’ Fund Society in 1838, 1840, 1841.

William Goadby Lawrence was one of America's foremost marine artists of the 20th Century. Born in Rumson, New Jersey, on August 17, 1913, he was the youngest son of Robert Cutting and Marguerite Lowe Lawrence. He became an artist at a very young age, attended the Art Students League in New York and had his…

Born in San Mateo, California in 1945, Mark Myers showed early interest in sailing and maritime history, later adding on board experience with a variety of square-rigged and fore-and-aft-rigged sailing ships. He developed an early ability to express these interests through drawing and painting and trained as an historian, receiving his degree from Pomona College…

A marine artist of Massachusetts, Hendricks Hallett was born in Charlestown, Mass. and after art studies in Antwerp and Paris, he came home to set up shop in Boston. He would later paint out of Fenway Studios alongside his wife, artist Florence Hallett. Known to work outdoors, sketching many impressions of a single scene, and…

An illustration artist who rose above the niche of pulp fiction artworks, where Frederick Blakeslee lacks in international recognition is well made up for with the fevered passion of collectors of aviation and military art, especially paintings inspired to become the covers of publications that became "The Flying Aces", "Dusty Ayers and his Battle Birds"…