A. E. Gallatin
(1881–1952)American collector, writer on art, and painter, born into a wealthy family. His earliest collecting interests were in Aubrey Beardsley and Whistler, but in the 1920s he began buying more ...
Aesthetic Movement
Term designating late-nineteenth-century enthusiasm for opulent arts and handcrafts, especially within a domestic context. Advocating beauty as a touchstone for every aspect of life, it grew from the ...
Albert Moore
(b York, 4 Sept. 1841; d London, 25 Sept. 1893).English painter, son of a portrait painter, William Moore (1790–1851). His early works were in a Pre-Raphaelite vein, but in ...
Alfred H. Maurer
(1868–1932)American painter, a pioneer of modernism in his country. He was born in New York, son of Louis Maurer (1832–1932), a lithographer who worked for the famous Currier & Ives firm of popular ...
Alfred-Émile Stevens
(b Brussels, 11 May 1823; d Paris, 24 Aug. 1906).Belgian painter, active mainly in Paris, where he settled in 1852. From about 1860 he achieved immense success with his pictures of young ladies in ...
Alphonse Legros
(1837–1911)French-born etcher, painter, sculptor, and teacher who settled in England in 1863 (encouraged by Whistler) and became a British citizen in 1881, although he never acquired fluency in ...
American art
1. PaintingArt in the United States begins with the native Americans. Their carvings, rock paintings, and weaving represent a cultural heritage rooted in religion, tribal ritual, and magic. This ...
Anders Zorn
(b Mora, 18 Feb. 1860; d Mora, 22 Aug. 1920).Swedish painter and etcher. After leaving the Stockholm Academy in 1881 because of its restrictive and outdated ideas, he travelled widely, becoming the ...
Armory Show
An art exhibition (officially entitled the International Exhibition of Modern Art) held in New York, 17 February–15 March 1913, at the Armory of the National Guard's Sixty-Ninth Regiment, Lexington ...
Arthur Bowen Davies
(b Utica, NY, 26 Sept. 1862; d Florence, 24 Oct. 1928).American painter, printmaker, and tapestry designer. During his lifetime he had a high reputation as an artist, but he is now remembered mainly ...
Arthur F. Mathews
(b Markesan, WI, 1 Oct 1860; d San Francisco, CA, 19 Feb 1945).American painter, designer and teacher. His early career was dominated by work at the California School of ...
Atkinson Grimshaw
(b Leeds, 6 Sept. 1836; d Leeds, 31 Oct. 1893).English painter. He specialized in a distinctive type of nocturnal townscape, usually featuring gaslights and wet streets, and Whistler said of him, ‘I ...
Augustus Edwin John
(1878–1961)British painter and draughtsman, who is best known for his portraits and for the appealing spontaneity of his style. He was admitted to the OM in 1942.Born in Tenby, the son of a Welsh ...
Birge Harrison
(1854–1929).Painter. Known especially for subtle evocations of nature's tranquil moments, he deployed a limited range of hues to create poetic, tonalist views. Particularly fond of effects produced ...
Canadian Art Club
A private exhibiting society of Canadian artists active in Toronto from 1907 to 1915. The main instigators of the Club were the painters Edmund Morris (1871–1913) and Curtis Williamson (1867–1944), ...
Charles Conder
(b London, 24 Oct. 1868; d Virginia Water, Surrey, 9 Feb. 1909).English painter, a direct descendant of the sculptor Roubiliac. He lived in Australia from 1884 to 1890, then ...
Charles Demuth
(b Lancaster, Pa., 8 Nov. 1883; d Lancaster, 23 Oct. 1935).American painter and illustrator, a pioneer of modern art in his country. He visited Europe in 1904, 1907–8, and 1912–14, staying mainly in ...
Charles Gleyre
(b Chevilly, nr. Lausanne, 2 May 1806; d Paris, 5 May 1874).Swiss painter, active mainly in Paris, where he enjoyed a successful career, particularly with anecdotal scenes, sometimes in an antique ...
Charles Lang Freer
(1854–1919).Collector and museum founder. Also a railroad-car magnate. A pioneer in connoisseurship of Asian and Near Eastern art, he collected also the work of American contemporaries but limited ...
Charles Webster Hawthorne
(1872–1930).Painter. A figure painter who straddled old and new currents in the art of his time, his work eludes narrow characterization. Like the impressionists, he generally favored scenes of ...
