Edward Sachse was born in Gorlitz, Germany and trained as an artist in his home city, eventually operating a lithography and publishing company there until the 1840s. In November 1848, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Baltimore, Maryland, where he worked for E. Weber and Company. Later joined by his brother Theodore ... MORE

Hattie Saussy was born in Savannah and studied art as a youth with Lila Cabiness and Emma Wilkins, both noted local artists. From 1906 to 1907, she attended Mary Baldwin College in Virginia, before moving with her mother to New York City in 1908. There, she pursued her art training at the National Academy of Design, ... MORE

Although born in Ohio, Paul Sawyier is widely known as the "Kentucky Impressionist." He became largely identified with his adopted state, where his genteel family settled in Frankfort in about 1870. Hailed as one of the most picturesque cities of the South, Frankfort was an important source of subject matter for Sawyier and served as ... MORE

Palmer Schoppe was one of the group of artists who participated in the cultural flowering of the 1920s through 1940 that is called the Charleston Renaissance. In his choice of subjects and of media (lithographs and paintings) Schoppe contributed to a nationwide interest in Lowcountry life and culture. Born in 1912 at Wood Cross, Utah, he grew ... MORE

A noted watercolorist, James Milton Sessions was born in Rome, New York and spent his youth in Chicago. His mother was an artist who encouraged his early interest in painting, which he pursued at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1903 to 1906. Sessions worked as a wheelsman for Great Lakes ships between 1906 and 1914 before ... MORE

Best known for his emotionally charged portrayals of African American life in the rural South, Charles Shannon was born in Montgomery, Alabama. He attended Emory University, before spending four years at the Cleveland School of Art. In 1935, during his third year in school, Shannon returned to his native state and built a log cabin studio on ... MORE

This oil painting is part of the fascinating history and rediscovery of Joshua Shaw, an intrepid artist, author, traveler, and inventor. Along with other scenic views of early America, it establishes Shaw as an important precursor to Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School, and significantly broadens our understanding of early landscape art in ... MORE

A native of Charleston, South Carolina, James Hamilton Shegogue traveled and received artistic training in Europe as a youth. During his lengthy professional career, spent mainly in New York, he produced portraits and landscapes, as well as historical and genre paintings. Shegogue exhibited at the American Academy in 1833 and was an associate ... MORE

Born in New York City, Henry Shrady is acclaimed for creating important Civil War memorials, as well as bronze sculptures of western wildlife and Native Americans. The son of a prominent physician, Shrady studied law at Columbia University, but illness prevented him from entering practice. He originally pursued painting and drawing as a hobby, ... MORE

One of the leading Impressionist landscape painters of the early twentieth century in America, William Posey Silva was born in Savannah, Georgia, where he attended Chatham Academy. He studied engineering at the University of Virginia and was a partner in his family's hardware and china business in Chattanooga, Tennessee from 1887 to 1907. Then ... MORE

Alice Smith is one of the most celebrated and accomplished artists of the Charleston Renaissance, well known for lyrical, tonalist watercolors. Born to a distinguished family in Charleston, she took early drawing and watercolor training at the Carolina Art Association, but was largely self-taught, developing her art through independent study, ... MORE

A painter of landscapes, portraits, and genre pictures, Gladys Nelson Smith was raised on a farm near Chelsea, Kansas. She began to draw at an early age and, in 1912, matriculated at the University of Kansas, where she majored in fine art. The faculty there had an impressionist orientation, and Smith adopted their bright palette and broad ... MORE

A rugged individualist who purposefully removed himself from the artistic mainstream, Houghton Cranford Smith did not follow any single aesthetic doctrine, but rather absorbed ideas from a range of sources to fashion a thoroughly independent course. Born in Arlington, New Jersey in 1887, Smith studied under William Merritt Chase and Kenneth ... MORE

Best known for her small genre paintings of chickens and barnyard scenes, Mary Russell Smith was a member of a distinguished family of American artists. The daughter of Russell and Mary Priscilla Wilson Smith, and the sister of Xanthus Smith, she was born at the family's rural home, Rockhill, a few miles north of Philadelphia. She settled at ... MORE

Renowned for his detailed and realistic Civil War marine paintings, Xanthus Smith was born in Philadelphia, into a highly accomplished family of artists. He was the son of the successful theatrical and landscape painter, Russell Smith, and Mary Priscilla Wilson Smith, who specialized in still life and floral genres. Both parents gave Xanthus ... MORE

This rendering of the steamship Isabel, which had a maritime career from 1848 to 1863, is a highly evocative representation of the maritime history of antebellum South Carolina and the Confederate States of America. Believed to have been painted around the year 1855 by Joseph B. Smith and his artist-son, William S. Smith, this ... MORE

An avid hunter, trapper, and fisherman, John Adams Spelman's love of the outdoors resulted in a legacy of richly colored landscapes depicting his favorite locales. Born in Owatonna, Minnesota, Spelman begain painting in childhood. After brief study at the Minneapolis Museum of Art, he moved with his family to Chicago. There, he furthered his ... MORE

One of the best known illustrators of her generation, Alice Barber Stephens grew up in Philadelphia and received her initial art instruction at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. While still in her teens, she mastered the mechanical processes involved in printing and began supporting herself by selling wood engravings to Scribner's ... MORE

Though born in the Midwest, Will Henry Stevens had a long association with the South. He came to New Orleans in 1921 and taught art at Sophie Newcomb College until he retired in 1948. From the 1920s on, while living in New Orleans during the academic year, he would spend summers teaching and working in North Carolina and Tennessee, where the ... MORE

Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, Lester Stevens received his early art training from Parker Perkins, a local marine painter. He later spent four years under Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, and Phillip Hale at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, before serving in World War I. Returning to Rockport, which was then emerging as a popular ... MORE

Author, artist, soldier, and diplomat David Hunter Strother rose to national fame as a correspondent for Harper's Magazine, writing and illustrating humorous anecdotes about Southern life in the Shenandoah Valley under the pseudonym "Porte Crayon." Undergirded by solid academic training, Strother was widely regarded as the ... MORE

Scottish-born Alexander Charles Stuart was an accomplished ship portrait and marine painter who worked primarily on navy bases and shipyards along the Delaware River, as well as in Washington, Philadelphia, and New York. In an 1896 account of his life, Stuart recorded that he had grown up in Glasgow, then a major shipbuilding city, and studied ... MORE

Born in Norfolk, Virginia, George Washington Sully was a nephew of the premier American portraitist Thomas Sully (1783-1872). As a young man, Sully lived in both Florida and New Orleans, where he sketched and painted birds, caricatures, and landscapes. He also produced trompe l'oeil rack pictures, such as this example, and cartoons. He never ... MORE

A leader in the development of printmaking in the South, Maltby Sykes grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, where he learned to draw and paint as a youth. He had several important artistic mentors. The first was Wayman Adams, with whom he studied portraiture in 1934 in Elizabethtown, New York. During his stay in New York, Sykes met the lithographer ... MORE