American, 19th century, female.
Born in Portland (Maine); died 1904, in New York.
Painter.
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American, 19th – 20th century, female.
Born 23 June 1847, in New York; died 1917.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtswoman, illustrator. Landscapes, flowers.
Agnes Abatt studied art at the Cooper Institute and the International Academy of Art in New York, and later received advice from R. Swain Gifford and James D. Smilie....
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American, 20th century, female.
Born 1887, in Vienna, Austria.
Painter, illustrator.
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American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1 April 1852, in Philadelphia; died 1911, in London.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman (including ink), pastellist, illustrator. Historical subjects, genre scenes, landscapes, figures.
Edwin Austin Abbey's apprenticeship consisted of making drawings for a wood engraver before studying at the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia and starting work as an illustrator. The drawings he supplied for ...
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American, 20th century, female.
Born 17 July 1898, in Springfield, Ohio; died 9 December 1991, in Monson, Maine.
Photographer. Portraiture, documentary, scientific illustrations.
At age 19 Berenice Abbott moved to New York City, where she met Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. Abbott’s initial interests were in sculpture and acting. In ...
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American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active in Philadelphia.
Died 1925, in Philadelphia.
Painter.
Francis R. Abbott was a Fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy of Art and a member of the Philadelphia Art Club.
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American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1874, in Mechanicsville; died 1953.
Painter (gouache), illustrator. Genre scenes.
New York, 3 June 1982: Archery Lesson (gouache, 11 × 9½ ins/28 × 24.2 cm) USD 850
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American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1870, in Philadelphia; died 1938.
Painter. Landscapes.
Bolton, 15 May 1985: Houses, Provincetown (oil on canvas, 30 × 36 ins/76.2 × 91.6 cm) USD 900
New York, 14 Nov 1991: Sea and Derricks (oil on canvas, 30¼ × 36½ ins/77 × 92.9 cm) ...
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American, 20th century, female.
Born 1894, in Mount Healthy (Ohio), according to some sources, in Widdern (Germany).
Sculptor.
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American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 28 August 1952, in Richmond Heights (Missouri).
Installation artist, video artist, photographer.
Kim Abeles was an American Field Service student in 1969 in Utsunomiya, Japan, where a Buddhist priest introduced her to traditional Japanese arts. She returned to the USA and studied painting at Ohio University, receiving a BFA in ...
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American, 20th century, female.
Born 1910, in New York; died 30 December 2002, in New York.
Painter, engraver. Figures, scenes with figures, genre scenes.
Ida Abelman studied in New York at the Grand Central Art School, the National Academy School of Fine Art, City College of New York, Hunter College, the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League....
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American, 19th century, male.
Born 13 February 1860, in New York.
Painter, miniaturist. Portraits.
Albert Abendschein studied initially in New York, then went to Munich and Italy to complete his training. He specialised in portraits and miniatures. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York, in Philadelphia and St Louis, and in Munich he received awards for his work....
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American, 20th century, female.
Born 17 February 1909, in Austin (Texas); died 3 July 1977, in Chicago.
Painter.
Magic Realism.
Gertrude Abercrombie spent her childhood travelling around the USA and Europe with her parents who worked in a travelling opera company. They settled in Chicago shortly after World War I and after completing a languages degree at the University of Illinois, Gertrude enrolled in life classes at the Chicago Institute of Art. She spent several years working as a commercial artist before deciding to concentrate on painting in the early thirties. In ...
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American, 18th century, male.
Active in Charleston (South Carolina) in 1785.
Engraver (burin).
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American, 20th century, female.
Painter.
Mez Abernethy lived in France in 1905-1906.
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American, 20th century, male.
Born 1887, in Bergen, Norway.
Painter, illustrator.
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American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 26 March 1954, in New York.
Painter. Figures, landscapes.
Elizabeth Abrams studied at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts from 1971 to 1975 and from 1975 to 1976 at the Pratt Institute of Design in New York. Overlapping with this, she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in ...
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American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1870, in Lawrence (Kansas); died 1941, in New Haven (Connecticut).
Painter. Landscapes.
Lucien Abrams exhibited two landscapes at the Salon d'Automne in 1912 and 1913.
New York, 22 Oct 1987: Wooded Sea Shore (oil on canvas, 21 × 18 ins/53.5 × 45.7 cm) ...
