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Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz
Biography Anna Bilińska (also known as Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz; 8 December 1854 – 8 April 1893) was a Polish painter, known for her portraits. A representative of realism, she spent most of her life in Paris, and is considered the first internationally known Polish woman artist. She was born 1854 in Zlatopol (formerly a frontier town… Continue reading
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Albert Bierstadt
Biography Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of… Continue reading
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Maxfield Parrish
Biography Maxfield Parrish (July 25, 1870 – March 30, 1966) was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and fantasy imagery. His career spanned fifty years and was highly successful: the National Museum of American Illustration deemed his painting Daybreak… Continue reading
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J. C. Leyendecker
Biography Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) was one of the most prominent and financially successful American freelance commercial artists. He was born in Germany and immigrated to Chicago in 1882. He apprenticed at 16 to engraving house J. Manz & Co., producing his first commercial work, including 60 images for an illustrated Bible published by Manz.… Continue reading
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