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Charles C. Haight
(b New York, 17 March 1841; d Garrison-on-Hudson, NY, 8 Feb 1917),architect. Haight was the son of a minister at New York's prestigious Trinity Church. Throughout his career, Haight ...
Collecting and dealing
Apart from isolated collections of prints, drawings and copies, such as that of John Smibert, in Colonial times the furnishings of the houses of the wealthy constituted the only significant ...
Impressionism, American
Late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century movement centered on optical experience, with particular attention to fixing contemporary subjects in momentary perceptions of light and color. Inspired ...
John Sartain
Family of Philadelphia printmakers, printers, painters and educators. John Sartain (b London, 24 Oct 1808; d Philadelphia, PA, 25 Oct 1897) and his children, Emily (b Philadelphia, 17 March 1841 ...
Mary Cassatt
(1844–1926)American painter and printmaker who worked mainly in Paris in the circle of the Impressionists (she was a friend particularly of Degas). She specialized in everyday life scenes, her ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York. The largest and most comprehensive collection of art in the USA and one of the greatest in the world. It was founded in 1870 by a group of art collectors, civic leaders, and ...
Samuel Colman
(1832–1920).Painter, etcher, and designer. Unusually versatile, he painted western scenery and romantically flavored foreign locales, spearheaded the American watercolor movement, and worked with ...
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