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  American Art - MSN Encarta
Americans were aware that their country marked something new in the Western experience—a political entity born free, entirely removed from the dynastic struggles of the European powers.
George Catlin, however, whose mother had been briefly kidnapped by Native Americans when he was a child, lamented the imminent disappearance of native folkways and wished to preserve a record of them through his art.
American sculptors became more ambitious in style and subject matter as they moved beyond the utilitarian pieces of the crafts tradition to what they considered a higher artistic level.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563773_2/American_Art.html   (2359 words)

  
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The society originally stood for development and breadth, and the expression of personality, which it was maintained had been previously hampered by academic traditions.
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS A society incorporated in May, 1892, in New York City, for the purpose of assisting authors in their dealings with publishers and generally improving the condition of the craft.
The society is also committed to the agitation for the transmission of authors' manuscripts through the mails at printed matter rates, according to the arrangements existing in England and other countries.
www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Society/Artists.html   (352 words)

  
 NGA: Themes in American Art: Glossary
The controversial exhibition introduced American artists and the public to European avant-garde art as well as to the work of some American artists working in modernist, cubist-inspired styles.
Colonial artists or limners, often working in a naive style, produced the first American portraits, still lifes, and landscapes.
Artists abandoned traditional subjects of historical and religious scenes, experimenting instead with formal elements of color, space, and light.
www.nga.gov /education/american/aaglossary.htm   (2159 words)

  
 Anna Hyatt Huntington - American Sculptor
She won the Purple Rosette of the French Government and was made a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur for her equestrian group of Joan of Arc.  In 1923 she married the philanthropist Archer Huntington and in 1931 Mr.
There she entertained all of the famous artist of the day providing a location and the tools needed for her to work undisturbed by the impositions of the outside world.
Anna Hyatt Huntington was one of the most prolific American artist of the 20th century, producing hundreds of models that were cast in bronze and some even in aluminum.
www.bronze-gallery.com /sculptors/artist.cfm?sculptorID=75   (383 words)

  
 American Dreams
American Dreams is presented on both levels of the Museum and includes prints, sculpture and photography, as well as painting.
Artists followed the well-worn trails west, capturing the spirit and ideals of westward expansion.
American artists of this era appropriated European styles and Christian sensibilities to mythologize the founding events of the nation.
moa.byu.edu /?id=841   (695 words)

  
 MOSAICO About our Artists
Susie is a member of the Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA) and MOSAICO - Society of Houston Mosaic Artists.
Anne is a member of the Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA) and MOSAICO - Society of Houston Mosaic Artists.
Sheri is a member of the Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA) and MOSAICO - Society of Houston Mosaic Artists.
www.mosaico.ws /artists.htm   (1028 words)

  
 The Twelfth National Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA) is a non-profit tax-exempt organization based in Ambler, PA. Its purpose is to recognize and promote marine art and maritime history and to encourage cooperation among artists, historians, and marine enthusiasts.
William Muller and Donald Stoltenberg, Cape Cod ASMA members and artists in the exhibition, were instrumental in persuading the society to have the exhibition appear in the newly expanded Cape Museum of Fine Arts.
William G. Muller was a founding director and is a Fellow of the American Society of Marine Artists, and is an elected member of the Society of American Historical Artists.
www.tfaoi.com /aa/2aa/2aa521.htm   (1659 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists
The Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists was founded in 1997 and was the first regional chapter of the American Society of Botanical Artists.
The Society is open to all artists interested in preserving and growing the tradition of botanical art.
Many of the artists show their work in regional and national juried exhibits, and their work is collected across the nation.
www.botanicalartists.org   (215 words)

  
 American Society of Contemporary Artists
The American Society of Contemporary Artists (ASCA) is an exhibiting organization consisting of approximately 100 members.
The works of these artists range from representational to the non-figurative, from the intensely political to the purely aesthetic.
The Society was founded in 1917 as the Brooklyn Society of Artists.
ascartists.org   (301 words)

  
 The Mount: Edith Wharton and the American Renaissance
The Mount: Edith Wharton and the American Renaissance
American history was not a standard part of the school curriculum.
Thus, in the late nineteenth century, many American artists and architects began to study the works of the Italian Renaissance (1420-1580), a period of renewed interest in the art, architecture, and literature of classical antiquity.
xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Davis/wharton/renaissance/renaissance.html   (422 words)

  
 THE AMERICAN COLOR PRINT SOCIETY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The American Color Print Society (ACPS) was founded in Philadelphia in 1939, during a time when exhibited prints were predominately fl and white, to aid color printmakers in showcasing their work and educating the public about this art form.
She is a juried artist member of such national art associations as: the Copley Society, Society of American Graphic Artists, Audubon Artists, American Artists Professional League, and American Color Print Society.
Her prints, drawings and original artist's books have receive numerous awards in juried exhibitions across the country and are found in such collections as the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the Zimmerli Art Museum, the National Museum of Women the Arts, and the United States Library of Congress.
www.americancolorprintsociety.org /newsletter   (2116 words)

  
 Artsymmetry - Free Online Art Articles Directory
Due to the Society of American Artists’ rising commercialism, ten significant American painters resigned from the association and were know as the “Ten American Painters.” Among them were John Henry Twachtman, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Edmund Charles Tarbell, and Frank Weston Benson.
Society of American Artists First members of the Society of American Artists include American painters Robert Swain Gifford, an American landscape painter; John Henry Twachtman, most popular impressionist landscape painter in his time; John LaFarge who was also famous for his stained glass windows and writings; and Albert Pinkham Ryder, famous for his seascapes.
Ten American Painters Due to the Society of American Artists’ rising commercialism, ten significant American painters resigned from the association and were know as the “Ten American Painters.” Among them were John Henry Twachtman, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Edmund Charles Tarbell, and Frank Weston Benson.
www.artsymmetry.com /ezineready.php?id=1930   (1216 words)

  
 Creative and Performing Artists and Writers Fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), a national research library and learned society of American history and culture, is calling for applications for visiting fellowships for historical research by creative and performing artists, writers, film makers, journalists, and other persons whose goals are to produce imaginative, non-formulaic works dealing with pre-twentieth-century American history.
The Society's goal in sponsoring this program is to multiply and improve the ways in which an understanding of history is communicated to the American people.
Applicants are encouraged to rent a room and prepare their meals in the Society's Goddard-Daniels House, an attractive and spacious historic mansion located directly across the street from the AAS library.
www.americanantiquarian.org /artistfellowship.htm   (291 words)

  
 Society of American Mosaic Artists
Juried Exhibition of the Society of American Mosaic Artists
Artists who decline to exhibit accepted work will be ineligible to enter SAMA shows for three years.
Artists are responsible for paying shipping costs via traceable mail or freight (UPS, Fed Ex, DHL, etc.) to MCA and for checking with the chosen carrier regarding insurance and correct packing procedures and customs documentation for international shipments.
www.americanmosaics.org /SAMAindex.aspx?id=ConfExhibition   (1684 words)

  
 American Rose Artists
Most of the American painters are largely unknown so they are not household names, however you may recognize some of their works.
Candace Wheeler, an artist and writer wrote of Weir "He is the painter of pale, undemonstrative roses in shadowy places, whose fragile beauty needs a champion and interpreter." Weir was one of the founders of the Society of American Artists, and painted and taught in the New York City area and Connecticut.
By 1880, the rose was established as the favorite subject of American painters, in still-lifes and portraits.
www.scvrs.homestead.com /RoseArt4.html   (4081 words)

  
 Artists of This Vicinity
Gilder was Miss Helena DeKay before becoming the wife of the Century editor and was one of the organizers of the Society of American Artists an artist herself whose ideal heads and flowers were beautifully done, but whose career was cut short because she became an invalid soon after her marriage.
The first public exhibition of this society was held in December, 1921, in the William J. Rotch house and opened many eyes as to the extent and fine character of the best art work in New Bedford.
After this the other artists to be considered form a large group for these men brought in the golden age of art in southeastern Massachusetts.
www.millicentlibrary.org /campbell.htm   (2934 words)

  
 Society of American Graphic Artists, SAGA Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Sigmund was the Pastel Society of America Hall of Fame Honoree 2004 at the National Arts Club, and had a solo exhibition “Pastels” at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio In 2004.
Her work was included in American Impressions, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ, and Contemporary American Printmakers, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA., and in the SAGA Council exhibition at Miami University, Coral Gables, FL.
Among the artists who exhibited in the Terrain Gallery’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition at their gallery in Soho, New York City, were SAGA artists John Ross, Clare Romano, Richard Sloat, Su-Li Hung and Michael di Cerbo.
www.clt.astate.edu /elind/sagatearsheet.htm   (3412 words)

  
 Childe Hassam | American Impressionist | Hollis Taggart Galleries
His friend and colleague, Boston artist Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862-1938), claimed that Hassam was “one of the great painters of America.”(1) Born Frederick Childe Hassam (he later stopped using his first name) on October 17, 1859, he grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, then a suburb of Boston.
In 1890, he helped found the New York Water Color Club, joined the American Water Color Society, and was elected to two social and exhibiting organizations for progressive artists, the Players Club and the Society of American Artists.
Although he became increasingly concerned with the direction of American art in the early decades of the twentieth century, just before his death in August 1935, he bequeathed all the paintings remaining in his studio to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York.
www.hollistaggart.com /artists/hassam.htm   (1089 words)

  
 John H. Twachtman | American Impressionist | Hollis Taggart Galleries
American Impressionist John Henry Twachtman, son of German immigrants, was born in 1853 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Unlike other American landscape painters of this period who gravitated to especially picturesque or panoramic subject matter, Twachtman favored views that were less obviously grand.
He exhibited regularly with the Society of Painters in Pastel, the American Water Color Society, and the Society of American Artists.
www.hollistaggart.com /artists/twachtman.htm   (684 words)

  
 American Society of Combat Martial Artists
American    Society  of Combat Martial Artists  (ASCMA) a    division of Ryo-Shi Ryu      Bujutsu  Kai.
The purpose of ASCMA is to provide martial art instructors with an organization which will recognize rank promotions, and provide its' instuctors with the opportunity of advancement without undo political influence.
ASCMA is there to support both the traditional as well as the American based martial art styles of self defense.
www.geocities.com /edloomis_1957/ASCMA.html   (122 words)

  
 Lore Degenstein Gallery - The Society of American Graphic Artists: A Selection Of Recent Prints
A not-for-profit national organization of fine art printmakers, the society originated in Brooklyn, NY, in 1915 as the "Brooklyn Society of Etchers." After undergoing several name changes, in 1952 it became the Society of American Graphic Artists.
The Society took on several new initiatives offering exhibit exchanges with European print clubs and a selection of miniature prints in its anual shows.
Over the past 80 years the society has organized over 65 national print exhibitions in addition to international, traveling, and exchange exhibitions.
www.susqu.edu /art_gallery/Saga/Saga.htm   (267 words)

  
 Biography of Artist Morten Solberg - Wildlife, Landscape, Figure, Floral, American Indian
Morten E. Solberg is a vesatile artist in all mediums.
Iin 1986, American Artist chose Mort as their “Artist of the Year”.
American Indian history and culture hold a special allure for Mort, perhaps because he has an Mohawk Chief’s daughter, Norwegian whalers & explorers among his great grandparents.
www.natureartists.com /artists/artist_biography.asp?ArtistID=297   (884 words)

  
 M B F A- Mark Borghi Fine Art Inc - American Art - Alice Kellogg Tyler (1862-1900)
While in Paris, she exhibited twice in the Saloon and in the American section of the Paris International Exhibition.
Around 1892, she was asked to join the Society of American Artists, becoming the only women in her time to receive this honor.
She was one of the first Chicago artists to give her service to the Hull House (See Portrait of Jane Addams at link below).
borghi.org /american/tyler.html   (433 words)

  
 Pierce Galleries - A.L. Ripley
Alden Lassell Ripley was born on December 31, 1896 in Wakefield, MA and studied at the Fenway School of Illustration (1917) and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School under Frank W. Benson and Philip Leslie Hale and he was awarded the Paige Traveling Fellowship to study abroad (1924-1925) from the Boston Museum School.
Ripley was a member of the American Artists Professional League, Audubon Artists, Boston Art Club, Guild of Boston Artists, American Watercolor Society, National Society of American Artists, New York Water Color Society, and he was an Associate of the National Academy of Design.
Ripley was given solo exhibitions at: Guild of Boston Artists (1926, 1930, 1942, 1972 commemorative); Grand Central Art Gallery, NY (1949); Worcester Art Museum (Paul Revere historical paintings, 1965); DeCordova Museum (MA, 1977 retrospective).
www.piercegalleries.com /artists/iart_ripley.html   (255 words)

  
 American Seascapes: Artists at the Shore
By 1912 she was teaching painting at the Art Students League in New York City and at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore.
Gile was born in Maine, but became famous as a member of "The Society of Six", a group of California Bay Area painters devoted to a modernist style of representation most reminiscent of the French Impressionists and Fauvists.
Hassam was a founding member of "The Ten", a group of artists who seceded from the Society of American Artists in order to show their work in small, non-juried exhibitions.
www.tfaoi.com /aa/4aa/4aa453.htm   (833 words)

  
 1913 Armory Show: Gallery F Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Gallery F was home to the work of several American artists who displayed the influence of Impressionism, though there was no conscious effort to show them as a group.
Alden Weir's could be found in Gallery E. Weir, the first president of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, suddenly left the group after several press releases indicated its direct opposition to the National Academy of Design.
Daniel Putnam Brinley did not exhibit with the Ten either but was a member of the New Society of American Artists in Paris, a group formed in protest against the Society of American Artists in Paris, seen by many as a conservative art-political power.
xroads.virginia.edu /~MUSEUM/Armory/galleryF/tour.f.html   (322 words)

  
 artists and society - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
A society of British artists formed in London in 1908 by...internationally famous as a society and state portraitist.
Art makes a contribution...breaches of convention, artists are both rewarded...to fear artists; artists pose a real threat...principles we as a society hold most dear...the role of art in society were arrested around...lawbreakers.
He was a founder of the Society of American Artists (1877), a member of the National Academy (1886), and its president (1915 17).
www.questia.com /search/artists-and-society   (1860 words)

  
 Member Artists Of American Impressioinist Society
Being an Advocate of "Plein Air" painting and working from life for my florals and still life, I feel that the objective of the artist is not merely to record.
People like to see the spirit of the artist in their work.
Producing oil paintings of astonishing colors, the artist portrays dramatic works of art expressing the energy of life.
www.americanimpressionistsociety.org /Members_Sites.html   (805 words)

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