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(August 28, 1810 – February 21, 1865) Constant Troyon was a French painter of the Barbizon school . In the early part of his career he painted mostly landscapes. It was only comparatively late in life that Troyon found his métier as a painter of animals, and achieved international recognition. He was born in Sèvres, near Paris, where his father…

(August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) Man Ray’s career is distinctive above all for the success he achieved in both the United States and Europe. First maturing in the center of American modernism in the 1910s, he made Paris his home in the 1920s and 1930s, and in the 1940s he crossed the Atlantic once…

(August 26, 1900 – September 6, 1980) Born in Cairo, Illinois, Woodruff grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. In the early 1920s, he studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, where he lived for a number of years. He later studied at Harvard University, the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, and the…

(25 August 1910 – 31 January 2012) Dorothea Margaret Tanning was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism. Dorothea Tanning was born and raised in Galesburg, Illinois. She was the second of three daughters to Andrew Peter Tanning (born Andreas Peter Georg Thaning; 1875–1943) and Amanda Marie Hansen (1879–1967), who…

(August 24, 1900 – August 6, 1973) Fred Conway was born August 24, 1900 in St. Louis. His father, a silk salesman, died when he was eleven years old. After graduating from Soldan High School in St. Louis, he worked briefly as a stock boy and a printmaker’s apprentice. At the printing firm, an artist…

(August 23, 1912 – June 29, 2001) Stokely Webster was best known as an American impressionist painter who studied in Paris. His paintings can be found in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the White House, Gracie Mansion in New York, the Senate Office Building, and the Museum…

(22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. In the 1970s, he largely discontinued his photographic work, instead opting…

(21 August 1894 – 25 February 1982) Christian Schad was a German painter associated with Dada and the New Objectivity movement. Considered as a group, Schad’s portraits form an extraordinary record of life in Vienna and Berlin in the years following World War I. Schad was born in Miesbach, Upper Bavaria, to a prosperous lawyer who supported…

(August 20, 1926 – April 17, 2011) Robert Remsen Vickrey N.A., (1926-2011). Robert Vickrey was born in New York City. Educated at Yale (B.A., B. F.A.,) and at the Art Students League of New York, he trained under Kenneth Hayes Miller and Reginald Marsh. In a career that spanned more than half of a century,…

(August 19, 1805 – May 4, 1845) Josef Danhauser is one of the most noteworthy painters, illustrators, sculptors and furniture designers of the Biedermeier period in Vienna. He was known for the dramatic design and colouration of his works. Josef Danhauser was born 1805 in Vienna as the oldest son of the sculptor and furniture…