by Maynard Dixon (American, 1875-1946) Born in the San Joaquin Valley, Maynard Dixon was a noted illustrator and landscape painter of the early 20th century West. His subjects included the desert, Indians, settlers, and cowboys. Ultimately settling in Arizona, Dixon spent much of his time traveling throughout the Southwest and his depictions of Hispanic, Native…
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Rough Customer
by Burt Proctor (1901-1980, American). Proctor became a painter of western landscape and of cowhand scenes with men on horseback. Much of his painting was done in his leisure time afforded by his early career as mining engineer and later as a successful commercial illustrator. Of his early talent, it was said he painted horses…
Home on the Range
by Lon Magargee (1883-1960, American). At age 13, Magargee ran away from his upper-class Pennsylvania home and went West in 1896, led by his zest for the wild and adventuresome life. Here he established a reputation as a cowboy painter and illustrator with work most associated with Arizona Brewing Company ads featuring humorous aspects of…
Arbita, the Lost Portrait
by Walter Kuhn (1877–1949, American). Kuhn was a painter and impresario who organized the influential Armory Show of 1913, which was America’s first large-scale introduction to European Modernism.. The 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, held in the New York Armory in Manhattan, was sponsored by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors. The show…
Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk and 5th Earl of Berkshire (1739-1779)
, by Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723-1792). Joshua Reynolds, a contemporary of Gainsborough, was the dominant English portraitist of the “Age of Johnson,” and painted up to 3,000 portraits, including those of many of the most wealthy and famous figures of his day. A painter of great energy, he was said to have worked constantly, never…
Rocky Coastline
by Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld. (1758–1846, French). At the outset of his career, Bidauld studied and painted throughout France and Italy, gaining a reputation as a “history painter.” Returning to Paris in 1790, he entered the Salon, in which he participated regularly. In 1792 he began receiving official commissions and, after 30 years of commissions and…
Portrait of Jan Asselijn, Painter (“Krabbetje”), c. 1647
by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, drypoint, and engraving. Rembrandt is considered to have been one of the finest painters and printmakers in European art history.
Boys Playing Music
by Victor Gilbert (1847-1933, French). Though his ability as an artist was recognized at an early age, Gilbert was forced to work as an artisan due to financial circumstances. He eventually gained some formal art training inParis. His work is characterized by everyday scenes in Paris, such as this troupe of young boys playing music…
Rembrandt Peale copy of Raphael’s Madonna Della Sedia
Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860, American) was the son of Charles Wilson Peale, the esteemed portrait painter and founder of America’s first museum. Rembrandt Peale was a successful painter in France and the United States. He painted portraits of many early national leaders during the 19th century, including one of the finest paintings of Thomas Jefferson. He…
Dans la Forêt
by John Henry Twachtman (American, 1853-1902) Twachtman was a well-known impressionist and a member of “The Ten,” a group of American painters who banded together to exhibit their work independent of professional arts organizations. His work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as several other public and private…