American, 19th century, male.
Born 1807, in Sparta (New York); died 1844, in Sparta (New York).
Painter. History painting, religious subjects.
Frederick Style Agate was the elder brother of Alfred Agate and one of the first members of the National Academy of Design in New York. His paintings ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 26 October 1945, in Beaumont (Texas).
Painter. Scenes with figures, religious subjects.
John Alexander is the leader of the Houston school known as Fresh Paint. His religious paintings have a theatrical quality, with bright colours and a sometimes primitive style. Several of his paintings are of fantastical scenes....
American, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1779, in Charleston (South Carolina); died 1843, in Cambridge (Massachusetts).
Painter. Biblical subjects, literary subjects, mythological subjects, portraits.
Washington Allston was intended for a career in one of the professions and studied classics at Harvard. However, his Romantic artistic tastes took him over and he was deeply moved by Schiller and by Fuseli's illustrations to Boydell's ...
Canadian, 19th century, male.
Born 2 November 1828, in St Andrews (New Brunswick); died 9 January 1901, in Providence (Rhode Island).
Painter, draughtsman, watercolourist, engraver, photographer. Portraits, religious subjects, genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes, still-lifes.
Bannister's father was form Barbados and his mother was Scottish. He was born in Canada right after slavery was abolished. He went to live in New York were he was a sailor and settled in Boston in ...
American, 20th century, female.
Born 1878, in New Haven (Connecticut); died 1945, in Almora (India).
Painter. Religious subjects, flowers.
Achsah Barlow Brewster studied at the New York School of Art and at the Art Students League. In 1905 she was in Paris. She married the artist Earl Brewster in ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 2 September 1911, in Charlotte (North Carolina); died 12 March 1988, in New York.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, lithographer, screen printer, engraver, collage artist, newspaper cartoonist, illustrator, art theorist. Religious subjects, figure compositions, local figures. Humorous cartoons, frontispieces, stage sets...
American, 19th century, male.
Born 1837, in Philadelphia; died 26 May 1879, in Philadelphia.
Painter, illustrator. Religious subjects, landscapes.
George Frederick Bensell studied painting in Philadelphia for three years with John Lamblin. He sometimes painted landscapes, but concentrated on biblical scenes. Among his biblical paintings are: ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1908.
Painter. Religious subjects, genre scenes, portraits.
At the Salon des Tuileries in 1934, Julien Binford exhibited The Disrobing of Christ, Crucifixion, and Portrait of the Author.
New York, 18 Dec 1991: Trying on the Green Dress (oil on canvas...
American, 19th – 20th century, female.
Born 1851, in Exeter (New Hampshire); died 1922, in St-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine), France.
Painter, draughtswoman. Genre scenes, mythological scenes, religious scenes.
Elisabeth-Jeanne Gardner studied in Paris under the direction of William Adolphe Bouguereau and later became his wife. She took part in the Paris Salon of ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born in Pittsburgh.
Sculptor. Religious subjects, figures.
Robert Brennen produces figurative sculptures in wood and metal, often on religious themes. These display fine craftsmanship and great technical skill. Brennen has exhibited in the USA, Greece, Italy, Germany and France. He has received numerous awards, including: in Rome in ...
American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1834, in Malden (Massachusetts); died 1919, in Newton Upper Falls (Massachusetts).
Painter, sculptor. Historical subjects, religious subjects, figures, portraits, landscapes.
Darius Cobb was the twin brother of Cyrus Cobb. The works for which he is known include portraits of ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1887, in Springfield (Ohio); died 1932.
Painter, lithographer, illustrator. Religious subjects.
Glenn O. Coleman began working as a newspaper illustrator in Indianapolis but moved to New York in 1905, where he studied under Everett Shinn and Robert Henri. He painted scenes of urban poverty which link him to the Ashcan School. During this period he collaborated with Sloan and Bellows, illustrating ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 20 March 1910, in North Plainfield (New Jersey).
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, print artist, illustrator. Religious subjects, figures, figure compositions, genre scenes, street scenes. Murals, church decoration, religious furnishings.
Harlem Renaissance.
Allan Rohan Crite studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and then at Harvard University Extension School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. During the Depression, he worked for the Federal Arts Project. He lived in Boston since he was one year old. From the early 1940s, Crite set out to paint the life of the black community in Roxbury and South End, Boston. He also created a number of religious works for churches in the 1930s and illustrated religious books. In particular, he published two books of Negro Spirituals with Harvard University Press, ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 12 April 1892, in Chicago; died 1973, in Plains (Illinois).
Painter, watercolourist, collage artist, illustrator.
Art Brut.
Henry J. Darger worked as a handyman at the Catholic mission of the Little Sisters of the Poor, who took him in when his father died, and then in various hospitals in Chicago....
American, 19th–20th century, male.
Born 23 July 1864, in South Dedham, Massachusetts; died 2 November 1933, in Norwood, Massachusetts.
Photographer, publisher. Portraits, nude studies, religious and mythological subjects.
The Linked Ring.
Pictorialism.
During the 1880s F. Holland Day worked for A.S. Barnes and Company booksellers in Boston and began experimenting with the camera. In 1893 he established, along with Herbert Copeland, the Copeland and Day publishing house, and over the course of the decade his photographic work flourished. In 1896 he began making pictures of male nudes, often highly accessorized and posed, and also pursued religious themes, culminating in 1898 with a series of 250 photographs of Day performing the life of Christ. Following this controversial pursuit, he organized a major exhibition of Pictorialist photography, ...
American, 19th century, female.
Born 22 February 1847, in Philadelphia; died 8 January 1906, in Brighton.
Painter. Religious subjects, historical subjects, mythological subjects, landscapes.
Sarah Dodson studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She spent most of her life in Europe, notably in Paris in the 1880s where she was a pupil of Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger at the Académie Julian. She exhibited at the Salons of Paris, Munich and Philadelphia....
American, 20th century, male.
Born 7 June 1931, in Eatonton (Georgia).
Painter, draughtsman (including ink), collage artist, print artist, sculptor, collector, art historian. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, figure compositions, scenes with figures, landscapes. Designs for stained glass.
David C. Driskell earned a BFA at Howard University in ...
American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1840, in Chicago; died 27 January 1912, in Munich.
Painter, draughtsman. Genre scenes, landscapes, architectural views, ruins, church interiors, interiors.
Charles Dyer began his career in the Navy and the diplomatic corps (he was consul in Bristol and then Beirut). He left the diplomatic corps to devote himself to painting under the guidance of L. Jacquesson de la Chavreuse in Paris. In ...
American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1882, in Nashville (Tennessee); died 7 February 1951, in Nashville.
Sculptor. Religious subjects, figures, animals.
William Edmondson was the son of former slaves who were emancipated following the Civil War, and grew up illiterate. He worked at various jobs, in particular, for the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St Louis Railroads until ...
American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active in Britain from 1905, naturalised 1907.
Born 1880, in New York, to Russian-Polish parents; died 19 August 1959, in London.
Sculptor (including bronze/marble), painter (including gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman. Religious subjects, portraits, animals. Statues, monuments.
Vorticism.
London Group.
Jacob Epstein first studied at the Arts Students League in New York and then in 1902 moved to Paris and enrolled at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts. In Paris he met Rodin, and, by visiting the Louvre, became strongly attracted to non-European sculpture. In 1905 he settled in London. Epstein promoted a new approach to sculpture, following the 'direct' sculptural process in which no model or detailed maquette is used but which concentrates on respecting and bringing to life the material employed, preserving its texture and colour while bringing forth from the material, for example a block of stone, the physical power of the form. This 'truth to materials' would have a direct impact on younger generation of British sculptors, notably Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth....
