Mary Cassatt. Children in Painting

Johanna Wright, Illustration

Etsy, johannawright.com

William Schneider, Fine American Painter

Michael Creese, Koi Paintings

Wendy Whitson, Landscape painting

A North Carolina native, Wendy is a graduate of East Carolina University with a degree in Fine Art. She worked in the fields of graphic design and photography for many years, before coming full circle to painting. (wendywhitson.com)

Wild Flowers, detail

Wild Flowers

Edward Hopper (American, 1882 – 1967)

Edward Hopper, Table for Ladies

Edward Hopper, Automat

American artist Kara K. Bigda, watercolors

Cherries

Polish Pottery and Blueberries

J. C. Leyendecker ( 1874-1951) American illustrator

Joseph Christian Leyendecker, famous American illustrator, was known for his poster, book, advertising illustrations and numerous covers for The Saturday Evening Post. Leyendecker painted more than 400 magazine covers, 322 for The Saturday Evening Post alone during the Golden Age of American Illustration. Leyendecker was born in Germany, his family immigrated to Chicago in 1882. J. C. Leyendecker received his formal artistic training at the school of the Chicago Art Institute and later he and his younger brother Frank enrolled in the Académie Julian in Paris for a year, where they were exposed to the work of Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Chéret, and also Alphonse Mucha, a leader in the French Art Nouveau movement.
Leyendecker never married, he was able to indulge in a very luxurious lifestyle and was known for the famous gala-like social gatherings in the 1920s. For much of his adult life Leyendecker lived with another man, Charles Beach who is assumed to have been his lover and who was the original model of the famous Arrow Collar Man. Leyendecker was a chief influence upon his friend Norman Rockwell, Leyendecker's drawing style was cited as a major influence on the character designs of Team Fortress 2, a first person shooter game for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. (wikipedia)

Lu Cong, American artist

Born in Shanghai, in 1978, Lu Cong immigrated to the US at the age of 11. He graduated from the University of Iowa with degrees in Biology and Art in 2000, but chose to pursue portrait art over medicine. The artist was recognized by a number of art publications as a notable emerging artist between 2003 and 2007 and since then he has developed a distinctive look that many has regarded as an original approach to figurative realism. (lucong.com)

Edith Corbet (1850-c.1920) American Painter

American artist living in Rome, Edith Corbet was one of a small group of artist's, known as the Etruscans. They took their inspiration from the landscape of the Roman campagna.

Paris in Painting by Childe Hassam, American Impressionist Painter

Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935) was a very prolific American Impressionist painter, he produced over 3,000 paintings, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs over the course of his career.

 Childe Hassam, Parc Monceau, Paris

 Childe Hassam, Paris Street Scene

 Childe Hassam, In the Park, Paris

 Childe Hassam, Le Jour du Grand Prix 1888

Hugh Henry Breckenridge (1870-1937) American Impressionist Painter

 Hugh Henry Breckenridge - White Phlox, 1906

 Hugh Henry Breckenridge - Phlox and Hollyhocks c.1907

 Hugh Henry Breckenridge - Oriental Jar

 Hugh Henry Breckenridge - Philadelphia 1917

Hugh Henry Breckenridge - A Moonlit Path 1911-12

Contemporary American Artist Peter Poskas

Paul Sawyier (1865-1917) American Impressionist Painter

Thomas Dedecker - Contemporary artist

(thomasdedecker.com)

Paul Dougherty (1877-1947) American Marine Painter

 Paul Dougherty - Point Lobos, c1920-30

 Paul Dougherty -Toward the Sunlight, 1910

George Charles Aid (1872 - 1938) American Artist

 George Charles Aid - The Bridge Players

 George Charles Aid - Mere et Son Enfant dans un Parc

George Charles Aid - Jeunne Femme Cousant

American Impressionist Painter Francis Morton Johnson (1878-1931)

Woman in a Garden

Johnson was born in Boston, and as a young man he left for Paris to pursue his artistic education. He studied at the Academy Julian and exhibited at the Galerie Georges Petit and Salon de Artistes François with other fellow artists Louis Rittman, Richard Miller, Preston Dickenson, Aston Knight. In the United States Johnson exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The artist was also known for inventing a device for registering the human voice on motion picture films in 1919. He died in Paris.

Under the Shade of Parasol

Gardener

Paris Street Scenes by Childe Hassam (1859 – 1935) American Impressionist Painter

Carriage Parade


At the Florist

April Showers, Champs Elysees, Paris