This is a souvenir admission ticket to the activities of the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition, held in Charleston, South Carolina, from December 1901 to June 1902. The Exposition was an international commercial, industrial, and arts fair that attracted exhibitions from throughout the United States, Europe, the Caribbean ... MORE

An enigmatic figure, Middleton Manigault was born in London, Ontario to a prominent and cultured family whose heritage can be traced to Charleston, South Carolina. Little is known of his early life. In 1905, he moved to New York to enroll in the New York School of Art, studying with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller; his fellow students ... MORE

Despite the apparent discrepancy in the signatures, The Sentry and Bringing Up the Artillery appear to have been executed by the same hand and were perhaps designed as companion pieces. The two canvases are approximately the same size, and the placement of the signatures (at lower left in one painting and at lower right in the other) may be ... MORE

Born into a distinguished Baltimore family, Frank Mayer was encouraged to pursue a career in painting by the artist Alfred Jacob Miller. After brief study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Mayer returned to his hometown in 1847 to accept a position as librarian of the Maryland Historical Society. At this time, he began formal ... MORE

One of a group of landscape painters who emerged from Chicago at the turn of the century, Lawrence Mazzanovich was born to immigrant parents at sea off the coast of California. The family eventually settled in Chicago, where Mazzanovich is said to have attended classes at the Art Institute. In 1902, he moved to Paris for further study. There, ... MORE

Born in Lincolnton, North Carolina--in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains--James McLean had little opportunity to pursue his artistic inclinations as a youth. Even during his first year of college work, art classes were not available at the university in Chapel Hill. In response to an advertisement promising part-time jobs to needy ... MORE

Revered for his romantic, tropical landscapes of Southern waterways, Joseph Rusling Meeker was born in New Jersey and grew up in Auburn, New York. After being introduced to art as a teenager by a local carriage painter, he pursued formal art education, studying under Charles E. Loring at the National Academy of Design from 1845-1848. At that ... MORE

Julius Garibaldi Melchers--born of German immigrant parents in Detroit and an expatriate for over thirty years--spent the latter years of his career on a Virginia estate painting distinctly American themes. His art at that time and, indeed, throughout his career was characterized by the motto which hung over the entrance to the artist's studio: ... MORE

This intimate view exemplifies Andrew Melrose's predilection for nature's calmer face. Quiet sunsets and slowly meandering rivers appealed to this artist's brush throughout a career that spanned more than forty years.

Born in Selkirk, Scotland, Melrose came to America in his early twenties. He is presumed to have been ... MORE

Born in Canada on Prince Edward Island, Hal Morrison graduated from Harvard Medical School. He spent two years as a physician with the Intercolonial Railroad, before "abandoning that profession entirely to rove over the whole world and paint what pleased me." The following seven years included travel and study in Europe until, by ... MORE

A second generation wood-turner, Philip Moulthrop sets a new standard for this ancient craft, continuing the innovation exemplified by his father, Edward Moulthrop, one of the pioneering wood-turners of the twentieth century. Using wood native to the southeastern United States, Moulthrop creates works that display a richness of grain and warmth ... MORE

Georgia painter Christopher Patrick Hussey Murphy was born to Irish immigrant parents in Savannah. He undertook no formal art training as a youth, but rather built a sizeable collection of art books which he used as resources for study and practice. Murphy joined the family’s commercial painting business at the age of nineteen and later ... MORE

A native South Carolinian, Faith Cornish Murray spent the better part of her life painting in the Lowcountry. Born in Charleston, she attended Ashley Hall and graduated with an associate degree from Fairmount College in Monteagle, Tennessee. After college, Murray worked as a draftsman in Washington, D.C. during World War I and then attended ... MORE