Irene Hodes Newman was born in Cameron, Missouri, but facts of her early life and training are not known. Her watercolors first appeared in exhibitions at the Society of Independent Artists in New York in 1930 and 1932, then in Baltimore Water Color Club member shows in 1939 and 1940. She was singled out in an Art Digest review of a 1940 ... MORE

To look at the paintings of Robert Loftin Newman is to be drawn into the personal world of the artist's imagination. His figures, shrouded in layer upon layer of thick, dark pigment, cannot be considered portraits, for the motivation behind their creation was not to record external reality. Rather, they are miniature dramatizations--often based ... MORE

Born in Salisbury, North Carolina, Mary Elizabeth Nottingham was a gifted artist, teacher, and arts administrator who spent much of her career working alongside her husband, Southern regionalist painter Horace Day. She began painting as a child and was formally educated at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia. Upon ... MORE