Julian was born into an artistically inclined family. His father Robert, a professional artist when he came to Texas from Maryland in 1879, married Emily WesleyRogers Gould in 1881 in San Antonio, and the couple made Texas their permanent home. The Onderdonks and the Goulds were distinguished families whose heritage included clergyman, statesmen, and educators, [...]

Marion was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, her mother was an artist and her grandfather was a member of the Royal Academy in London. She studied painting at the Chicago Art Institute under John Vanderpoel and William M. Chase in New York. She taught for several years at the Chicago Art Institute and was a popular portrait artist [...]

Rungius was born in Germany in 1869 and attended the Berlin art Academy. He spent a lot of time sketching at the Berlin Zoo where he developed an interest in animals that drove him to research and study the mannerisms and habits of animals as well as a concern for anatomical accuracy. In 1894 Runguis made his [...]

Carl Peters was born in Rochester NY in 1897 which had a rich tradition of art from the Hudson River school and tonalist painters in that area.  Peters studied at the Art Students League in New York and with John F. Carlson in Woodstock. He was also influenced by lectures he heard from Robert Henri [...]

Born in 1879, Robert Spencer moved from New York City to the Bucks County region in Southeastern Pennsylvania.  Spencer was one of several talented American Impressionists in the Pennsylvania Art Colony centered in New Hope. Spencer differed from most of his impressionist colleagues, often depicting tenements, factories and mills in Pennsylvania.  He won a gold medal [...]

Bonington was born near Nottingham, England in 1802.  His father was a master draftsman and started teaching him watercolors at the age of 11.  In 1817 he and his family moved to Calais, France.  Bonninton went to Paris in 1818 where he met Eugene Delacroix and made watercolor copies of landscape paintings at the Louvre. From [...]

Aldro Hibbard was born in 1886 in Falmouth Cape Cod.  His family settled in Dorchester, MA in the mid 1890s.  Aldro attended Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston.  The school stressed discipline and hard work.  Extensive learning in drawing, composition, color and anatomy.  Hibbard’s figure painting instructor was the great Boston painter Joseph DeCamp.  After [...]

Ernest L. Blumenschein was far and away the most well known of theTaospainters during his lifetime. His painstakingly executed canvases, in his distinctive style that was first called “post-impressionist” and later modernist, garnered him a wide and appreciative audience, and numerous awards. Ernest Blumenschein paintings today are held by the most important museum collections in theUnited States. Ernest [...]

Cropsey, who was trained as an architect began painting shortly after he set up his architecture business.  He had his first exhibit at the National Academy of Design in 1844.  In 1851 he was elected a member into the academy. His interest in architecture always influenced his paintings with a strong sense of line and design [...]