b. 1953 Colorado Elizabeth (Buff) Elting paints Western landscapes from an aerial view that references both topography and mapmaking, and at the same time captures the changes wrought by development. She uses her art to explore the sense of place, creating abstract landscapes that offer new ways of looking at the elements of land, water, [...]
Colorado, Commercial Art, Portrait Mr. Molstad teaches at the Bemis School of Art, Colorado Springs, Colorado. His fine arts career began following art school and several successful years of commercial art in Los Angeles and Denver CO.
(1895-1942) New York, Stone Figure Sculpture, Wood Carving Sculptor John Flannagan was born in Fargo, North Dakota on April 7, 1895. His early life was a bitter struggle against poverty. Too poor to buy quarried stone, he picked up fieldstones for carving. He studied art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts from 1914 to 1917. [...]
b. 1955 Montana, Landscape-Figures, Western, History Charles Fritz’s paintings are an honest approach to the world around him, depicting the landscape, life and history of the Rocky Mountain region. In explaining his style, he describes himself as an outdoor artist, preferring to paint on location, a strenuous and time-honored approach to the changing moods of [...]
b. 1953 Colorado, Figure, Genre, Landscape, and Still-Life Painting Kang Cho was born in Seoul, Korea in 1953. Cho’s childhood provided a strong foundation for his fine-art career. He and his older brother routinely wandered the fields near his home, painting what he saw. He came to the United States from Korea in 1969 when [...]
(1852-1911) Pennsylvania/New York / United Kingdom, History Illustration, Figure and Mural Painting Born in 1852, the name of Edwin Austin Abbey is related to both contemporary American Art Nouveau and the Symbolist movement. He was on staff at “Harpers” magazine by the time he was 19, and, despite success, recognition and raises, he left to [...]
(1688-1751) Massachusetts / England, Portrait and Some Landscape Painting Raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, John Smibert settled in Boston and became one of the foremost portrait artists in colonial America. His style was that of the Old Masters, and he painted nearly 300 portraits. In his later years, with weakened eyesight, he turned to portrait painting. [...]
(1843-1942) Colorado, Michigan, California, Western Survey Photo-Sketches, Painting and Illustration Born in Keesville, New York, William Jackson became an important artist, illustrator, and pioneer photographer of the American West. Most of his paintings were completed after he retired in the 1930s, and are based on earlier sketches and photographs created during his travels in the [...]
(1876-1952) New York/California, Figure, Portrait, Landscape, and Still Life Painting, teaching Born in Oneida, New York, Kenneth Hayes Miller became a prominent painter and teacher in New York City in the early 20th century. Not much influenced by modernism, he painted nude and semi-nude figures in settings that were hazy and romantic. His signature subjects [...]
(1942 – ) New Mexico/New York, Landscape and Still Life Painting, Illustration Walt Gonske was born and raised in New Jersey. After graduating from the Newark School of Fine Arts, he studied with the famous illustrator, Frank Reilly, and at the Art Students League in New York. He was a successful commercial illustrator before deciding [...]
(1921 – 2003) New Mexico, Full Female Figure, Still-Life, Portrait A resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Marilyn Bendell was a figure painter in the Impressionist style. The vibrancy, warmth and fluidity of Ms. Bendell’s extensive body of art was drawn from the luminous palette of her colorful life. She achieved international renown and repute [...]
(1885-1965) New York/Connecticut, Abstract Sea-Landscape, Nude Figure Known as a colorist focused on serene mood, harmony, and rounded shapes, Milton Avery was primarily a self-taught painter whose work combining abstraction and realism suggests dialogue between line, shape, muted color, and subdued emotions. Most of his subjects were either marine scenes or figure studies. Although never [...]
(1774-1825) Pennsylvania, Still-life, Portraits, Figure Painter Raphaelle Peale was born in Annapolis, Maryland in 1774. He was the eldest son of Charles Willson Peale, under whom he first studied in Philadelphia. He was the first of Peale’s children to survive infancy. In the early 1790s, he helped his father run the Peale Museum in Philadelphia. [...]
(1908-2000) New Mexico/California, Non Objective Imagery Watercolor, Solar Architectural Design William Lumpkins was the sole artist among the early modernists who could rightly claim his connection to New Mexico and the inspiration from the high desert landscapes as a birthright. In 1929, he enrolled at the University of New Mexico where he took painting classes from artist [...]
(1931 – ) New York, Earthworks, Installation, Minimalism Robert Morris, a Minimalist artist, was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1931, studying at that city’s Art Institute from 1948 to 1950, and then at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco in 1951. While living on the West Coast, he was involved with improvisational [...]
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