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Thomas
Bigelow Craig
Known for his bucolic landscapes with grazing cows, Thomas Craig was
born in Philadelphia where he remained until 1889 and then moved to New
York City until 1899. He finally settled in Rutherford, New Jersey, but
maintained a summer studio in Woodland Valle, near Phoenicia, New York.
It is believed that Craig was largely self taught, but his activity in
the Philadelphia Sketch Club, 1873 to 1876, suggests he was a student of
Thomas Eakins. He frequently painted in the White Mountains of New
Hampshire and in the countryside of both Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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Austin C. Wooster
Austin C. Wooster, son of Dr. Henry Wooster and Rebecca Thornburg, was a southwestern Pennsylvania painter of portraits, landscapes, and still lifes from 1860 to 1916. His great-grandfather, Thomas Thornburg, was a member of the Pennsylvania Militia during the Revolutionary War. He was born on the Thornburg farm in Chartiers Valley, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. This is now part of a town called Thornburg. Austin's grandparents, Jacob and Jane Lorain Thornburg, who raised him after the early death of his parents, discouraged his art, looking on it as an insane fancy or crime, rather than as a gift. Wooster lived in Green Tree (then called Union Township), Allegheny County, Pennsylvania where he earned his living as an artist and did occasional work at house painting. Wooster had a studio in Pittsburgh at Fourth Avenue and Wood Street. He exhibited his work in various ways, including the 1890 Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society, and Pittsburgh department stores, where he sold his work. Wooster also did work for hire; painting houses, farms, and vineyards in neighboring communities. According to two of Wooster's neighbors he did portraits, and he gave lessons in watercolor to at least one young girl, also a neighbor.
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E. Maxwell Albert
(aka Ernest Albert, Jr.)
A distinguished theatrical and scenic designer, Ernest
Albert worked in New York, St. Louis and Chicago. Born in Brooklyn in
1857, he showed early talent and received the Graham Art Medal at age
15, while he was studying at the Brooklyn Art Institute. Though Albert
had some early success as a newspaper artist, his introduction to the
theater world in 1877, began a career in stage design, he worked on
productions staring most of the best-known performers of the day. During
this time, in 1879, he employed and befriended young Jules Guerin, who
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Cullen Yates Cullen Yates - landscape and still
life painter of rivers, coastal scenes, villages, and flowers - was born
in Bryan, Ohio on January 24,1866 and died in Shawnee, PA in July of
1945. He maintained his studio and residence for many years in
Shawnee-on-the-Delaware, Monroe County, PA.
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Alfred Arthur Brunel
de Neuville
A highly skilled artist of the French school, Alfred Arthur Brunel de
Neuville painted primarily animals, still lifes, fruits, and
occasionally flowers. A student of his father, he received a rather
basic foundation in the fine art of painting, and spent the rest of his
career elaborating upon it, improving his talents all the while. |
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Austin Wooster
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Austin C. Wooster, son of Dr. Henry Wooster and Rebecca Thornburg, was a southwestern Pennsylvania painter of portraits, landscapes, and still lifes from 1860 to 1916. His great-grandfather, Thomas Thornburg, was a member of the Pennsylvania Militia during the Revolutionary War. He was born on the Thornburg farm in Chartiers Valley, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. This is now part of a town called Thornburg. Austin's grandparents, Jacob and Jane Lorain Thornburg, who raised him after the early death of his parents, discouraged his art, looking on it as an insane fancy or crime, rather than as a gift. Wooster lived in Green Tree (then called Union Township), Allegheny County, Pennsylvania where he earned his living as an artist and did occasional work at house painting. Wooster had a studio in Pittsburgh at Fourth Avenue and Wood Street. He exhibited his work in various ways, including the 1890 Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society, and Pittsburgh department stores, where he sold his work. Wooster also did work for hire; painting houses, farms, and vineyards in neighboring communities. According to two of Wooster's neighbors he did portraits, and he gave lessons in watercolor to at least one young girl, also a neighbor
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Alfred Bryan Wall
SOLD As a second generation "Scalp Level School" artist, Mr. Wall frequented that artist's retreat outside of Pittsburgh with his father and uncle, Pittsburgh artists Alfred S. Wall and William Coventry Wall. This experience and the tutoring by his father was his only art training. His work includes portraits of Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Henry Clay Frick along with his pastoral landscapes which featured sheep and occasionally cows. His brushwork was often loose but confident and exhibited a freedom of spirit. His work is often described as being casual and calm but without sentimentality. His first exhibition was in 1879 at the National Academy of Design and he was a trustee of the Carnegie Institute where he served on the Fine Arts Committee to help select the permanent collect.
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