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John Singer Sargent
Biography John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the leading portrait painter of his generation for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from… Continue reading
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Anna Hyatt Huntington
Biography Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (March 10, 1876 – October 4, 1973) was an American sculptor who was among New York City’s most prominent sculptors in the early 20th century. At a time when very few women were successful artists, she had a thriving career. Hyatt Huntington exhibited often, traveled widely, received critical acclaim at… Continue reading
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Charles Rollinson Lamb
Biography Charles Rollinson Lamb (1860 – February 22, 1942) was an American architect and sculptor. Born and raised in New York City, he studied under William Sartain at the Art Students’ League. He was a member of his father’s firm, the J&R Lamb Studios. He was a founding member of the National Sculpture Society. He… Continue reading
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Edwin Blashfield
Biography Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5, 1848 – October 12, 1936) was an American painter and muralist, most known for painting the murals on the dome of the Library of Congress Main Reading Room in Washington, DC. Blashfield was born in Brooklyn in 1848 to William H. Blashfield and Eliza Dodd. He studied painting at… Continue reading
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Charles B. Atwood
Biography Charles Bowler Atwood (1849–1895) was an architect whose designs were used throughout the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He also designed a number of notable buildings in the city of Chicago. Atwood was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1849. He attended the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard University. Atwood trained in the office… Continue reading
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George B. Post
Biography George Browne Post (December 15, 1837 – November 28, 1913) was an American architect trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition. Active from 1869 almost until his death, he was recognized as a master of several prominent contemporary American architectural genres, and instrumental in the birth of the skyscraper. Many of his most characteristic projects were… Continue reading
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John Quincy Adams Ward
Biography John Quincy Adams Ward (June 29, 1830 – May 1, 1910) was an American sculptor, whose most familiar work is his larger than life-size standing statue of George Washington on the steps of Federal Hall National Memorial in New York City. Ward was the fourth of eight children born to John Anderson Ward and… Continue reading
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Piccirilli Brothers
Biography The Piccirilli (pronounced pea-chee-really) brothers were an Italian family of renowned marble carvers and sculptors who carved many of the most significant marble sculptures in the United States, including Daniel Chester French’s colossal Abraham Lincoln (1920) in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. In 1888, Giuseppe Piccirilli (1844–1910), a stone carver in Massa, Italy and… Continue reading
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Thomas Moran
Biography Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He… Continue reading
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Kenyon Cox
Biography Kenyon Cox (Oct. 27, 1856 – March 17, 1919) was an American painter and art critic, known for his murals and decorative work. Cox was a pupil of Carolus-Duran and of Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris from 1877 to 1882, when he returned to New York City, subsequently teaching with much success in the Art… Continue reading
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