John Mackie Falconer was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and immigrated to America in 1836. He settled in New York City and began work for a hardware company, which he came to control by 1874. Outside of this occupation, Falconer was a passionate amateur artist, widely recognized for etching and painting in watercolor and oil. Active in a number of ... MORE

The art of Linda Fantuzzo, a New York native, has come to be identified with Charleston, where she has lived for the past thirty years. An adventurous artist with a roving intellect, she looks for new challenges and undertakes varied subjects, approaches, and media in her work.

Fantuzzo trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the ... MORE

Stephen James Ferris’s elaborate and deeply allegorical The Triumph of Liberty is a quintessential example of the power of symbolic representation in the visual arts. Filled with traditional imagery of the American Republic, anti-slavery movement, and Biblical prophecy, it is Ferris’s multiple employment of these symbols in ... MORE

Kelly Fitzpatrick was raised in comfortable surroundings in Wetumpka, Alabama and, except for study trips to Europe and military service in 1918, lived there all of his life. Fitzpatrick was educated at Starke University School in Montgomery and later studied journalism at the University of Alabama before resigning in 1910 to pursue his ... MORE

A native of Athens, Georgia, Jean Nevitt Flanigen studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under such influential teachers as Hugh Breckenridge, Daniel Garber, and Henry McCarter. Working in oils and watercolors, she was a member of the Philadelphia Water Color Club, Southern States Art League, and the Georgia Art Association, ... MORE

William Charles Anthony Frerichs was born on March 2, 1829, in Ghent, then a part of the Netherlands. He moved to The Hague as a child and entered the Royal Academy at the age of six, where he studied with the landscape painters Andreas Schelfhout and Bartholomeus J. van Hove, each man an important figure in Dutch art in the mid-nineteenth ... MORE