American, 19th century, female.
Born in Portland (Maine); died 1904, in New York.
Painter.
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A'becket, Maria J. C.
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Abatt, Agnes Dean
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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Abay, Rowena Meeks (Mrs)
American, 20th century, female.
Born 1887, in Vienna, Austria.
Painter, illustrator.
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Abbey, Edwin Austin
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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Abbey, Edwin Austin
Pamela H. Simpson
(b Philadelphia, PA, April 1, 1852; d London, Aug 1, 1911).
American painter, illustrator, and muralist, active also in England. Abbey began his art studies at the age of 14 in his native Philadelphia where he worked with Isaac L. Williams (1817–95). Two years later he enrolled in night classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art working under Christian Schussele (1824–1979), but by then Abbey was already a published illustrator. In the 1870s his drawings appeared in numerous publications, but it was his work for Harper & Brothers that proved most important to his career. In 1871 he moved to New York, and in 1878, Harper’s sent him on a research trip to England. He found such affinity with the country that he made it his home for the rest of his life. After 1889 he devoted more time to painting, was elected a Royal Academician in 1898, and in 1902 was chosen by Edward VII (...
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Abbott, Anne Fuller
American, 20th century, female.
Born in Brandon (Vermont).
Painter.
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Abbott, Francis R.
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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Abbott, Samuel Nelson
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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Abbott, Yarnall
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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Abelman, Ida
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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Abendschein, Albert
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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Abercrombie, Gertrude
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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Abercrombie, Gertrude
Susan Weininger
(b Austin, TX, Feb 17, 1909; d Chicago, IL, Jul 3, 1977).
American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Her work, often described by critics as “magic realist” or “surreal,” includes portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and interior scenes that translate a private vision into the concrete terms of this world. She studied at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1929 with a BA in Romance languages; after returning to Chicago she took courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the American Academy of Art. Her work was deeply personal, informed by a lasting connection to the regional mentality of the Chicago art world combined with a distinctive and witty approach.
Her interests were shaped by early experiences. Both of her parents were opera singers and she became a serious jazz aficionado as an adult; she learned German as a child during a stay in Berlin, stimulating a love of languages and wordplay; she had a profound connection to the Midwest and its landscape, particularly to her father’s western Illinois hometown of Aledo, where she spent many happy summers with his extended family, moderating the loneliness of being an only child....
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Abernethy, Mez (Miss)
American, 20th century, female.
Painter.
Mez Abernethy lived in France in 1905-1906.
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Abrahams, Helen
American, 20th century, female.
Active 1909-1910 in Philadelphia.
Painter.
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Abrahamsen, Christian
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1887, in Bergen, Norway.
Painter, illustrator.
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Abrams, Elizabeth
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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Abrams, Lucien
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) ...
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Acconci, Vito
American, 20th century, male.
Born 24 January 1940, in New York.
Painter, sculptor, performance artist, video artist. Multimedia.
Body Art, Conceptual Art.
Vito Acconci was born in the Bronx, New York and lives and works in Brooklyn. He studied at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts and at the University of Iowa. He has taught in various art schools and universities and in particular at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University and the Parsons School of Design in New York....
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Acheson, Alice
American, 19th century, female.
Born in Pittsburgh.
Painter.
Alice Acheson studied in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Paris.
