Posts in Category: 20th Century
John Sloan
John French Sloan, August 2, 1871 – September 7, 1951, was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and teacher associated with the Ashcan School and The Eight. Born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, he trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked as a newspaper illustrator in Philadelphia.
Sloan was closely associated with Robert Henri, William Glackens, George Luks, and Everett Shinn. He painted urban scenes, interiors, rooftops, restaurants, and public spaces, especially in New York, and also made etchings documenting city life.
He taught at the Art Students League of New York, where his students included Alexander Calder, Reginald Marsh, and Barnett Newman. His work is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Cleveland Museum of Art.
Everett Shinn
Everett Shinn, November 6, 1876 – May 1, 1953, was an American painter, illustrator, and designer born in Woodstown, New Jersey. He studied mechanical drawing at the Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where Thomas Anshutz was among his teachers.
Shinn began his career as a newspaper illustrator at the Philadelphia Press and moved to New York in 1897. Associated with Robert Henri, John Sloan, William Glackens, and George Luks, he exhibited with The Eight in 1908 and became known for urban scenes, theatrical subjects, and extensive work in pastel.
Shinn also produced magazine illustrations, murals, theatrical designs, and later decorative commissions. His work is represented in the National Portrait Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, and other American collections. He died in New York City in 1953.
Anders Zorn
Anders Zorn, February 18, 1860–August 22, 1920, was a Swedish painter, etcher and sculptor. Born in Mora, he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1875 to 1881. In London, Axel Herman Haig introduced him to etching in 1882.
Zorn worked in watercolor, oil and printmaking, depicting portraits, bathers, landscapes and rural life. He lived in Paris from 1888 to 1896 and associated with Auguste Rodin, James McNeill Whistler, Albert Besnard and Frits Thaulow. He returned to Mora in 1896 and continued to travel for exhibitions and portrait commissions, including visits to the United States.
His work is held by the Zorn Collections in Mora, Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard, October 3, 1867 – January 23, 1947, was a French painter and printmaker born in Fontenay-aux-Roses and died at Le Cannet. He studied law before attending the Académie Julian in 1887, where he formed lasting associations with Édouard Vuillard, Félix Vallotton, Paul Sérusier, and other artists of the Nabis.
Bonnard worked in painting, lithography, illustration, decoration, and theatre design. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1891 and made pictures of Parisian life, domestic interiors, still lifes, gardens, and the places where he stayed in Normandy and southern France.
After discovering the Côte d’Azur in 1909, Bonnard increasingly worked in the south of France and later settled at Le Cannet. His work is held in major collections including the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Elin Danielson-Gambogi
Elin Danielson-Gambogi, September 3, 1861 – December 31, 1919, was a Finnish painter associated with naturalism, plein-air painting, and the generation of Finnish women artists who received professional art training in the late nineteenth century. Her work includes portraits, interiors, domestic scenes, working women, landscapes, and Italian coastal subjects.
Danielson-Gambogi studied at the Finnish Art Society Drawing School in Helsinki and later with Adolf von Becker. In Paris she studied at the Académie Colarossi and received training from Gustave Courtois and Raphaël Collin; she also studied sculpture with Auguste Rodin and encountered Jules Bastien-Lepage, whose naturalism influenced her palette and approach to outdoor painting. In Finland she worked with the Önningeby artists’ colony around Victor Westerholm, and her artistic circle included painters such as Helene Schjerfbeck, Ellen Thesleff, Dora Wahlroos, and Akseli Gallen-Kallela. She also taught at Finnish art schools, including the Finnish Art Society Drawing School in Turku.
In 1898 she married the Italian painter Raffaello Gambogi and settled in Italy, where both artists worked between Finnish and Italian artistic circles. She exhibited in Finland and abroad, including in Venice, Florence, Paris, and other European venues, and received awards in Finland, Florence, and at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Danielson-Gambogi died in Antignano, Italy, in 1919.
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, October 10, 1858 – February 1, 1924, was an American painter born in St. John’s, Newfoundland. His family moved to Boston in 1868, and he later studied in Paris with Gustave Courtois at the Académie Colarossi and at the Académie Julian.
Prendergast worked in watercolor, monotype, and oil, often depicting parks, beaches, city streets, and scenes of public leisure. He exhibited with The Eight in 1908, served on the selection committee for the 1913 Armory Show, and developed a post-impressionist style marked by flattened forms, strong outlines, and patterned color.
Prendergast moved to New York with his artist brother Charles in 1914 and remained there until his death. His work is held by the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Theodor Severin Kittelsen
Theodor Severin Kittelsen, Norwegian artist, 27 April 1857 – 21 January 1914
