Otis Oldfield was an American painter and art instructor born on July 3, 1890, in Sacramento, California. In 1906, Otis dropped out of high school to work at a local print shop and on the railroads. He arrived in San Francisco in 1909 and enrolled at Best’s Art School. After saving up for two years, …
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Jeffrey Larson is an American painter born in 1962 in Two Harbors, Minnesota, growing up in the Twin Cities. Jeffrey started his art education at seventeen at the Atelier Jack, Minneapolis, where he studied under Richard Lack. After completing the four-year training, Larson served as Head Instructor Assistant Director at Atelier LeSueur from 1984 to …
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Jeffrey Smart was an Australian painter born on 26 July 1921 in Adelaide, Australia. Jeffrey grew an early fascination for architecture and art, leading him to enroll part-time at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts while training at Adelaide Teachers College. In 1948, Smart traveled to Europe and America, settling in Paris …
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Shmuel Katz was an Israeli painter born on 18 August 1926 in Vienna, Austria. Shmuel’s family relocated to Hungary in 1938 after Germany annexed Austria. In 1944, Nazis invaded Hungary, and Katz got deported to a labor camp in Yugoslavia. He escaped and relocated to Budapest. In 1946, he joined a group of illegal …
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Horatio Henry Couldery was an English painter born in 1832 in the London Borough of Levisham, United Kingdom. Horatio was one of nine children born to a painter, Robert Couldery, and initially apprenticed to become a cabinetmaker. However, his love for art prevailed when he escaped his apprenticeship to pursue an art career. In …
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Duccio di Buoninsegna was an Italian painter born in Siena, Tuscany in 1255. Duccio was the first painter of the Sienese school. The first evidence of his painting and existence dates back to 1278, when the Office of the Biccherna commissioned him to paint twelve document boxes. The following year, he got the task …
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Andre Derain was a French painter born on 10 June 1880 in Chatou, France. Andre began to learn painting independently at age 15 before enrolling at the Ecole des Mines to study engineering. In 1898, Derain left the engineering program when he chose to pursue an art career and learned in the studio of …
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Albert Rosenthal was an American painter, etcher, printmaker, and art collector born on January 30, 1863, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After high school, Albert enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he was a student of Max Rosenthal, his father. In 1880, Rosenthal furthered his studies at the Academie Julian in Paris. Rosenthal …
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Ferdinand Hodler was a Swiss painter born on 14 March 1853 in Bern, Switzerland. In 1861, Ferdinand lost his father and brothers to tuberculosis, and his mother remarried shortly after. He regularly assisted his stepfather, a painter, in completing his projects. After his mother died in 1867, Ferdinand was sent to Thun to apprentice …
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Gladys Nilsson is an American painter born on 6 May 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. Gladys was born to Swedish parents who raised her north of Chicago. She studied at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, where she met Jim Nutt. After their marriage, the couple got acquainted with Whitney Halstead, who introduced them …
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