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 [...]

Born in Chicago in 1876, Clark studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, but after becoming bored with the Academic approach to learning he was encouraged to study at the Art Students League in New York where he studied with painters like John Twachtman, Kenyon Cox and William Merritt Chase.  In 1898 Clark went to [...]

William Wendt, a California Impressionist painter, was born on Feb. 20, 1865 in Bentzen, Germany.  At the age of 15, Wendt came to the United States and worked in Chicago where he painted formula pictures as a staff artist.  In his spare time Wendt would paint on his own where he started to develophis own [...]

Garber was born on April 11, 1880 in Indiana. At 16 he started his art education at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, then the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, where he met his wife, artist Mary Franklin. Garber and his wife traveled to Europe to finish their education. Then on the advice of a friend [...]

E Martin Hennings was born in Pennsgrove, NJ. His father, a skilled craftsman, encouraged his interest in art and after attending the Pennsylvania Academy and the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied in Munich, Germany. With the start of WWI, Hennings returned to Chicago where an art patron sponsored him to paint and travel [...]

Armin Hansen received his first instruction from his father, Herman Wendelborg Hansen,1854 – 1924, the famous painter of the Old West and frontier life. The younger Hansen later studied at Mark Hopkins Institute under Arthur Mathews (1903-06), followed by two years in Stuttgart, Germany at theRoyal Academy under Carlos Grethe. After visiting the art centers [...]

Born in Hartford, Conn. in 1881, she started her art training at Hartford Art School in 1889, she attended William Merritt Chase’s Summer School in Tory Island and ended up at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  She studied With Edmund Tarbell and married Philip Hale in 1902, a faculty member at the school. [...]

Isaac Levitan was a Russian artist born in 1860 in a poor but educated family, he taught german and french early on until he enrolled in the Moscow School of Painting and Architecture.  During this time he painted scenery for the Opera and developed a long close friendship with the author Anton Chekhov.    Levitan did [...]

While living in Chicago I spent a lot of time at the Art Institute where they had a good collection of French impressionists.  As a young art student the artist that caught my eye the most was Alfred Sisley.  While his work was smaller than the other impressionists and less dramatic his brushwork was quick [...]