Born and raised in New Orleans, Jo Cain studied at the Chicago Academy of Art and with Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League in New York. He served as professor of art at the University of Rhode Island and was ultimately named chair of the department. Through the years, he painted a variety of subjects, but the vibrant street life of ... MORE

Retirement from the ministry offered Thomas Campbell the opportunity to pursue a second, and successful, career as an artist. Born in England, Campbell immigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1866. He served first as missionary to Native Americans and subsequently held pastorates at ... MORE

Chicago native Lyell Carr earned glowing accolades for paintings that accurately and charmingly portrayed life in the South at the close of the nineteenth century. Several works, including Opossum Snout, Plantation Picked, The Cracker's Daughter, and A Shower in the Blue Ridge, are the product of Carr’s extended visits ... MORE

The painter and teacher George W. Chambers was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1857. Little is known of his life until 1880 when he entered the Paris studio of Jean Léon Gérôme, the French classicist. He remained in Paris until 1884, studying with Gérôme and also with Julien Dupré, whose Barbizon style ... MORE

Esteemed draftsman James Wells Champney was best known for his refined drawings and illustrations. Over the course of his varied career, he worked in an array of media, achieving particular recognition for his watercolors and pastels, and for his numerous translations of works by the Old Masters. Born in Boston to the painter Benjamin Champney, ... MORE

Howard Chandler Christy is recognized as one of America's most accomplished illustrators of the early twentieth century. He was particularly known for the "Christy Girl," a new idealized standard of modern beauty he established in his depictions of women.

Christy was born in Ohio and showed exceptional artistic talent ... MORE

Nicolai Cikovsky arrived in New York in 1923 with impressive academic credentials, having studied in his native Russia at the Vilna Art School, Penza Royal Art School, and Moscow Higher Technical Art Institute. He quickly gained representation with the Charles Daniels Gallery, which exhibited only the most promising modern ... MORE

The son of noted tonalist painter Walter Clark, Eliot Clark recalled his early years in his father's studio in the Holbein building in New York City: "As a child, I grew unconsciously in the association of artists, of studio talk, and the smell of paint and turpentine." Instructed at his father's easel, Clark exhibited two pieces at ... MORE

Noted tonalist Walter Clark was educated as an engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before pursuing an artistic career. After completion of his class work at MIT in 1869, he traveled extensively in Europe studying art and architecture. He would eventually expand his travels to include the Far East as well. Returning to New ... MORE

A native Charlestonian, Chevis Clark paints his coastal home with both affection and feeling. After serving in the Navy, he completed his art training at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Returning to Charleston, he continued to expand the range of his artistic talents and began teaching at the Gibbes Art Gallery School. In 1969, he was ... MORE

Best known as an impressionist painter of New York City skyscrapers and street scenes in the first decades of the twentieth century, Colin Campbell Cooper was an established artist of international renown when he traveled south in 1914 through Annapolis, Richmond, Charleston, and Savannah. During that trip, he painted this view of Charleston's ... MORE

Don Cooper's training with Jim Herbert at the University of Georgia in the 1960s provided useful preparation for a career painting works that belong to what might be called the "fantastic realism" school of Southern art. Reflecting on his own work, Cooper speaks of his aesthetic quest to create "something I've never seen ... MORE

A painter of streetscapes, florals, and interiors, Emma Lampert Cooper was born near Rochester, New York. She studied at the Cooper Union Art School and the Art Students League in New York, and at the Delecluse Academy in Paris. Returning to Rochester, she taught at the Mechanics Institute from 1893 and was active in the art ... MORE